From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Wed Sep 23 08:13:02 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D0CA068B6 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:13:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yonas@fizk.net) Received: from mail-ig0-x22d.google.com (mail-ig0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 720D91188 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:13:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yonas@fizk.net) Received: by igcrk20 with SMTP id rk20so95763774igc.1 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 01:13:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fizk.net; s=google; h=to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=T6SCe2l6CB2x9DRKGwyGAZh4O97O61gcP/omBS5/CtY=; b=USQRG7l0+cJ+Ycd2l9s1end2bhsMT1HyPUtC8dwbbbRTKFPq32UznuFfBWfjG98dl1 VhaAa5MHEZaEl93X7LXH7fXYrTBSV0MACaPgv4KGhD78NZgWY/Wha3CR+7xB4MHBXXZa gqRr9sR8rR0864kpU7T6/v+w2VU6L+QroY5g8= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=T6SCe2l6CB2x9DRKGwyGAZh4O97O61gcP/omBS5/CtY=; b=blJbF5+uVRSskuPq0OQpphzZGUxdQVC1GM9UNU0U3vDRdKCLS01TZYcYOeFvFR8Icd hSa6Hvg/4w49ibG22N1npvfw3nq+znMYTTd8Ic14XBknHS+Kf/Rp6FoGfGES26Z96TBF U1cAU9mKm/ZX0IhSI8Fi1QTUr7aK6vCZCKzJzB2EeqMSzgdgv8GB0fzIMy98vtJ9x7KV Pkaseug0O1L2czfs8MEfYx1cEjED5Nzb8C8hlGHPivlq0GprvXH9rzXUtcNmY9b2lFTP 4ImL3f18UCjMtGO3uGXnljeq/HE5jiuQravXMj0T6mZF8o8UajJKYZJ3Bds+SDwm3jvX FRzQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlro7GZHl6ZZrBxcF705D8ydk61H/jVtgfmaQ7ep3zPD5kQp149I46RjsMT7WaxRpdSfFnV X-Received: by 10.50.114.1 with SMTP id jc1mr20602261igb.56.1442995952217; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 01:12:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.200] (CPEbc4dfb965b33-CMbc4dfb965b30.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com. [99.236.139.136]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 31sm295247iom.35.2015.09.23.01.12.31 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 23 Sep 2015 01:12:31 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Yonas Yanfa Subject: Add isboot iSCSI boot driver to FreeBSD Message-ID: <56025EEE.50404@fizk.net> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 04:12:30 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:13:02 -0000 Hi, isboot is a iSCSI boot driver written by Daisuke Aoyama that allows you to boot your root partition using iSCSI. Installation is extremely simple: 1. extract the archive: # tar zxvf isboot-x.x.x.tar.gz 2. compile the module: # cd isboot-x.x.x/src # make 3. install the compiled module to the kernel directory: # make install 4. edit /boot/loader.conf, and add the following line: isboot_load="YES" This was first announced way back in June, 2010: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2010-June/004425.html I've tested the current version (v0.2.10) and it works with FreeBSD 10.2 booting a ZFS on root installation: http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/isboot/isboot-0.2.10.tar.gz I've used iSCSI boot with Ubuntu Server for a while and it's been very useful. I'm looking forward to FreeBSD having the same capability built-in. Cheers, Yonas