There has a half patch submitted for open-iscsi installer support. Perhaps thats what you've seen. I have not used/tested it, so can't comment on its real status.
On Thursday 19 December 2013 10:17 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Control: reassign -1 open-iscsi 2.0.873 > > On Jo, 19 dec 13, 03:50:46, Vyska Steve-Kai wrote: >> Package: open-scsi >> Version: 2.0.873 >> >> >> >> I’m trying to install an daily mini.iso net install (18.12.2013) testing >> (jessie). >> >> The idea is to install an diskless client using an iscsi-lun as root >> partition and only /boot on a separate disk. The installer realizes this and >> set up an alternativ initramfs, so the trigger for this kind of installation >> is set in there expert guy. But there are several other problems, which are >> not triggered. This is documented in the README.Debain file on how to do the same ROOT on iSCSI setup. >> 1. When the installation finishes, and the reboot starts you get an error, >> that there is no network. The reason here is, that the udevs are not filled >> completely when the networks fires up. This is an old known bug #693558 and >> can be easily solved by adding „wait_for_dev 10 in >> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/iscsi before the >> configure_networking line and restart update-initramfs -u This one was fixed already >> 2. When this is done the system will still not start. The Problem is the >> nodes definition. The nodes-information is written at the very last point of >> the installation process. just right before the system asks to reboot. The >> Problem here is that the nodes are set to be mounted manually (node.startup >> = manual instead of node-startup = automatic). Even when u have already in >> an console edit the file as soon as the system prompts to reboot this is set >> to manual and you can not alter this once you hit return without changing it >> before. We don't run the daemon in the initrd.. >> 3. The next interesting issu is, that i was not able to use an login / >> password combination for the setup. When starting not as a root system >> everything works fine with the same configuration, but when u mount it in >> the initramfs you always get an auth error from there. For login, it is supported. I'm not sure if the same is for discovery. >> 4. I set up 3 iscsi nodes. The first node works fine when using the >> workarounds listed here. But the other 2 nodes are not connoted. The system >> says that there is a session error (Error 15 session exists) and exits the >> daemon, letting the first node being up. resulting fsck to crash because the >> device do not exists (work around here is of course the stab changing from >> default 0 2 to 0 0 for this device). Only 1 connection is allowed in the initrd. >> I hope i wrote everything correct here and it helps people either changing >> something or getting their system online, sorry for the bad english :D it’s >> been a while i need to write stuff in english :D. When u need additional >> Infos / configs / data / whatever just send me an email and when it is >> possible i’ll provide the information you need >> >> Greets >> >> Steve -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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