Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:45:06 +0300 From: Kristjan Eentsalu <eentsalu@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iSCSI boot ... root? Message-ID: <CAH9ezV3JP2LQC8tYX5BkyjAGE4%2BamOiT0_h=4Rruwo1P41RqUQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 16.09.2013 13:35, Edward Tomasz Napiera=B3a wrote:> Wiadomo=B6=E6 napisa= na 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " > Don't know if it works with CURRENT but You can use iPXE(formerly gPXE) chainloading and isboot module. http://ipxe.org/howto/chainloading http://ipxe.org/howto/dhcpd http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2012-August/005570.html Kristjan
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