[ipxe-devel] Installing to san

[Michael Brown]

On Saturday 27 Aug 2011 07:17:57 Sam Ballinger wrote:
> Basically is there a way to make the system setup iscsi keep it resisted
> then exit out of pre boot maybe a time out ? then continue onto boot from
>  cd so i can install on the iscsi target directly .
> 
> If there is a fix for this or if you can point me to the right source files
> i can have a crack at it my self .

Your BIOS may allow you to fall through and attempt a boot from CD after the 
boot from the iSCSI target fails.  This doesn't work on all BIOSes.  You will 
get more reliable results by configuring the root-path to point to the iSCSI 
disk and the filename to point to the installer.  There is an example of doing 
this (for Windows) at

  http://ipxe.org/howto/wds_iscsi

The process also works for Linux distros that support install-to-iSCSI, but I 
haven't written it up with pretty pictures yet.

Michael