On Friday, January 10, 2014 1:49:28 AM UTC-6, Mike Christie wrote: > > On 1/9/14 9:17 PM, Fred Smit wrote: > > I notice that Ubuntu has an installation option to install directly to > an > > iScsi target . > > > > I assume this means that the intelligence to boot a kernel with the > proper > > bootags passed in using the default initrd.gz can be px(bootp) e booted > > into a iscsi diskless environment? > > > > I recall trying iscsi booting years ago and the amount of work / > > infrastructure to get it working was overwhelming. > > > > > > ps. this is powerpc platform. not Intel. > > > > > > I don't know the implementation details but it is either pxe boot or > some nics and systems have mini iscsi initiators that are used instead. > They use iscsi to bring in the kernel and initrd, then the initrd runs > iscsiadm/iscsistart which reads the iscsi settings the mini initiator > used and then uses that info to create a iscsi session for the rest of > the boot process. > > RHEL/OEL and SLES has supported this for a while. > > Is this IBM ppc box? If so then does your system have a mini iscsi > initiator on the system? In the open firmware is there some iscsi boot > setup stuff? There is some iscsiadm/iscsistart code for some IBM ppc > boxes, where you do not need to use pxe because it has a mini iscsi > initiator. It loads the initrd and kernel and from there the iscsi tools > read the iscsi settings/target from that open firmware tree and then use > that info to do the rest of the boot. > >
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