Oct25
Debian Etch boot over iSCSI HOWTO
I’ve finally managed to write down all the steps needed to setup a Debian Etch system to boot over iSCSI without an iSCSI HBA.
These are the needed elements:
- a debian Etch system, of course
- open-iscsi
- an iSCSI target (I’ve used iSCSI Enterprise Target for Linux)
- gPXE
Instead of writing a lonely howto page on my blog, I’ve chosen to write it into the Etherboot Project Wiki which seems to me the best place for it.
So… I was granted the write permission and I have created this Debian Etch boot over iSCSI HOWTO.
One based on ubuntu gutsy will follow soon.
Of course comments and critics are appreciated.
P.S: things like this are priceless to me:
#etherboot on freenode.net
<mdc> Nice work, Gervystar 
<mdc> Thanks. I think it is a fine start, and will help people lot
4 Responses to “Debian Etch boot over iSCSI HOWTO”
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Bjoern
Said this at 10:47pm:Hello Gervystar,
just followed your howto. gpxe works fine, gets booted, gets it root-path from dhcp, but the initial iscsi request always fails (”could not reach device”). I looked in the wiki for more debugging options, but didn’t find any. My target is an equallogic device and tcpdump show traffic between those two when gpxe tries to make a request.
any hints?
Thanks!
Alessandro Gervaso
Said this at 10:58pm:Hi Bjoern,
this could be a gpxe bug. I think that it needs to be recompiled using a specific option to enable the debug, but I’m not sure.
It would be better to search some better support on irc, on the #etherboot channel on irc.freenode.net, since they’re the real experts.
I’m sorry to be not able to provide you more help.
Good luck with that!
Bjoern
Said this at 6:54pm:Mike from the Etherboot project worked with me on that and we finally resolves this issue (iscsi redirect problem with new TargetAddress). I can boot now!
Alessandro Gervaso
Said this at 7:08pm:That’s great news!