Re: iSCSI boot ... root?

From: Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:35:32 +0200
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.
Received on Mon Sep 16 2013 - 08:35:36 UTC

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