Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 17:06:02 -0600 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>, =?iso-8859-2?Q?Edward_Tomasz_Napiera=B3a?= <trasz@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: iSCSI boot ... root? Message-ID: <B4F858B6-5696-4825-9C5D-D5A6AE10BD87@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <F053F3B6-07A5-4F31-8055-853822BDC73E@FreeBSD.org> References: <CACpH0MfYmYmOLF%2B69B3D7meCxFp4WsATDQePZ-ZpJKmvKZMVuQ@mail.gmail.com> <F053F3B6-07A5-4F31-8055-853822BDC73E@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sep 16, 2013, at 4:35 AM, Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz@freebsd.org> wrote: > Wiadomość napisana przez Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com> w dniu 16 wrz 2013, o godz. 07:35: >> Is it now possible to boot from iSCSI? I'm not talking about an iSCSI >> controller, but with >> >> pxe -> dhcp -> tftp (loads loader) -> (something) -> boot (mounts root from >> iSCSI) > > Not yet. The iSCSI initiator requires iscsid(8) in order to work, and you can't > run it before mounting root. > > I think the proper way to do this would be by doing something similar to Linux' > initrd; i.e. booting from mdroot loaded by loader(8), run iscsid(8) from there, > setup iSCSI session, then mount the real root and pivot to it. I'm not sure if it's > possible right now. I'm not sure to what extent trasz's work overlaps with this, but I was able to boot a FreeBSD 9.1 image via iSCSI using aoyama's isboot module. I used gPXE and UNDI since my BIOS and NIC don't have any iSCSI support, just vanilla PXE. I haven't heard anything about isboot lately but the links below are still active. Let me know if you'd like additional details. JN On Aug 23, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Daisuke Aoyama <aoyama@peach.ne.jp> wrote: > Subject: Updated isboot 0.2.6 and FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 > Cc: <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> > > I have updated isboot and created 9.1-RC based image. > Please try it: > > http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/isboot/isboot-0.2.6.tar.gz > http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/isboot/demo/FreeBSD-9.1-RC1-amd64-memstick-isboot-0.2.6.img
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