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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:35:32 +0200
From:      =?iso-8859-2?Q?Edward_Tomasz_Napiera=B3a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: iSCSI boot ... root?
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Wiadomo=B6=E6 napisana przez Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@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
>=20
> 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.=



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