On Sep 16, 2013, at 4:35 AM, Edward Tomasz Napierała <tr...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Wiadomość napisana przez Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbee...@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 <aoy...@peach.ne.jp> wrote: > Subject: Updated isboot 0.2.6 and FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 > Cc: <freebsd-s...@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-sta...@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.img _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
