Re: cannot run the "iscsistart" CLI

2008-04-11 Thread v i n c e
Thanks soo much for all the help ... YES! I finally was able to test and boot and login to an iSCSI root drive using CentOS ... and yes, I did do the mkinitrd to generate my init ... I did not go the creating and building your own init/initrd route. thanks again! - V. On Apr 8, 1:38 pm, Mike

Re: cannot run the "iscsistart" CLI

2008-04-08 Thread Mike Christie
v i n c e wrote: > I'd like to find out if anyone has successfully performed the above by > inserting into an init script for initrd - for the purpose of booting > a diskless server on an iscsi-root? > Having gotten the above to work, I attempted to modify my init script > so that I can boot to my

Re: cannot run the "iscsistart" CLI

2008-04-08 Thread v i n c e
thank you for the response .. On Apr 8, 12:21 pm, Mike Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When you run iscsistart you cannot have iscsid running and you must load > the modules by hand. So you have to do the modprobe iscsi_tcp that the > init script would normally do for you. > in fact as

Re: cannot run the "iscsistart" CLI

2008-04-08 Thread Mike Christie
v i n c e wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to setup an iscsi root disk; googled instructions that > suggests to make changes to init in the initrd; before doing so I > wanted to test the "iscsistart" CLI. I am able to connect to my > target when I start the iscsi daemon via the: service isc

cannot run the "iscsistart" CLI

2008-04-08 Thread v i n c e
Hello all, I am trying to setup an iscsi root disk; googled instructions that suggests to make changes to init in the initrd; before doing so I wanted to test the "iscsistart" CLI. I am able to connect to my target when I start the iscsi daemon via the: service iscsi start. However, I am unabl