[ipxe-devel] Booting diskless Ubuntu from iSCSI

Oliver Rath rath at mglug.de
Sun Mar 6 10:47:40 UTC 2016


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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