On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:10:52AM -0500, Paul Krizak wrote: > I banged on this for weeks with my Red Hat TAM and we never got it to > work properly in RHEL5.2. We still have a ticket open about it; they're > targeting RHEL6 for the fix, IIRC. > > One caveat: We have a bit of a unique situation in that the primary NIC > (eth0) was *not* the iSCSI NIC; rather we had to be able to bring up > eth1 on a private network to connect to the iSCSI shelf via a different > switch. We never tried using the primary interface to do this, since in > our environment, SAN traffic is not allowed to share the network with > the other traffic. >
Ok. Thanks for the report. Was was exactly the problem you met? -- Pasi > Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B400.2B > Senior Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735 > Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 > Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791-0686 > Silicon Design Division Fax: (512) 602-0468 > > > Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:13:06PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > >>Once upon a time, Paul Krizak <[email protected]> said: > >>>iSCSI boot enablement != iSCSI HBA. All that will do is allow your NIC > >>>to mount an iSCSI device as a boot drive and load the first few blocks > >>>from it (i.e. a bootloader). When the kernel actually loads into memory > >>>and boots, it will need to be able to do the following before it can > >>>actually load the OS past the initrd: > >>> > >>>1. Start up the NIC > >>>2. Run DHCP (or set a static IP) > >>>3. Load the iSCSI daemon > >>>4. Initiate a connection to the iSCSI shelf which should create > >>>/dev/<something> (I think...been a while since I did iSCSI) > >>>5. Mount the iSCSI LUN (/dev/something) as root. > >>IIRC that is all handled already by the RHEL mkinitrd, and doesn't > >>require specialized (and usually more expensive) hardware and drivers. > >> > > > >Yes, RHEL supports taking care of that automatically. Also that's where > >iBFT helps. > >I think RHEL5 can do that automatically with iBFT, and without iBFT, but > >then you have to > >configure the boot iSCSI LUN settings twice - first to BIOS/NIC, and then > >to RHEL (installer). > > > >-- Pasi > > > >_______________________________________________ > >rhelv5-list mailing list > >[email protected] > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
