[ipxe-devel] Booting diskless Ubuntu from iSCSI

[Oliver Rath]

Hi Robert,

Ive seen, that you are using ubuntu alternate (or server) for install.
My hints were for ubuntu desktop, where seems no direct support of iscsi
now (only via open-iscsi package).

Im not familiar with partman-iscsi, but it sounds really interesting.

Regards,
Oliver


Am 06.03.2016 um 10:38 schrieb Oliver Rath:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> first, your ipxe config for installation looks good.
> 
> You need to install the open-iscsi package into your ubuntu-installation
> and update your initramfs. I didnt find this in your preseed file.
> 
> Furthermore, the kernel-parameter matching imho lowercase only (taken
> from /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/iscsi from the
> open-iscsi package).
> 
> Hth,
> Oliver
> 
> 
> Am 05.03.2016 um 23:28 schrieb Robert Nelson:
>> Hello,
>> I am trying to boot Ubuntu 15.10 from an iSCSI target with iPXE, but it
>> fails to load the grub menu.
>>
>> Here is the message I get:
>> Grub says:
>> Starting Hardware Identifier
>> Registered SAN device 0x80
>> Booting from SAN device 0x80
>> error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'
>> Entering rescue mode...
>> grub rescue>
>>
>> I managed to iPXE boot the Ubuntu 15.10 installer and successfully
>> installed Ubuntu to the iSCSI target, but it will not boot properly.
>> I am using FreeNAS as the iSCSI target.
>>
>> Attached are my ipxe.menu and Ubuntu preseed.cfg files
>> I am using the ubuntuiscsiinstall menu item to install Ubuntu and
>> the identifyhardware menu item to boot it.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>> --Robert Nelson
>>
>>
>>
>>
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