On Sep 16, 2013, at 4:35 AM, Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > Wiadomość napisana przez Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble_at_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_at_peach.ne.jp> wrote: > Subject: Updated isboot 0.2.6 and FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 > Cc: <freebsd-scsi_at_freebsd.org>, <freebsd-stable_at_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.imgReceived on Tue Oct 01 2013 - 21:05:55 UTC
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