Booting Debian with iSCSI root disk

[dale]

Hello, community.
Exerpt from https://wiki.debian.org/SAN/iSCSI

<quote>
There is no way to do this with the standard Debian initrd. The init4boot project supplies the needed infrastructure (especially an adapted initrd). Standard PXE / tftp boot with iSCSI root and XEN guest systems with iSCSI root are supported.
</quote>
init4boot is old project not packaged in Debian.

So what is supported boot with iSCSI root now?

Regards, dale.

 

[deathblade]

Hello,

The best way to boot over iSCSI is a iSCSI-capable NIC, like intel X520 based adapters.

About installing OS, I wrote a tutorial here.

Best regards

 

[Dark26]

i have this running right now. Proxmox installation over a debian on boot on San ..Now piece of cake , you can directly install debian on isci Lun with the debian installer.

for the record i use Pfsense for the the dhcp serveur / tftp / ipxe file..

 

[deathblade]

i have this running right now. Proxmox installation over a debian on boot on San ..Now piece of cake , you can directly install debian on isci Lun with the debian installer.

for the record i use Pfsense for the the dhcp serveur / tftp / ipxe file..

I still not achieved the working install of debian over iSCSI.

How do you install debian directly on iSCSI target with installer ?

I can only connect to target manually with shell during install, tried to install but system don't boot with following message :

mdadm : no array found by scanning or in config file.

 

[Dark26]

Mdadm is the software raid. Do you have a raid over the iscsi disk?

The iscsi lun is bootable? The network card is in the boot order in the bios? You use ipxe?

 

[deathblade]

I don't use any RAID.
Yes, my LUN is bootable and the network card is set correctly, grub menu is showing.
No, I don't use ipxe, I am booting directly over my NIC.

I am trying to achieve the same objective as my tutorial, but with debian, not proxmox.