[Bug 1075313] [NEW] no reliable way to boot from iscsi root

[Scott Moser]

Public bug reported:

In order to boot from iscsi root via kernel parameters, the user would provide kernel parameters something like:
   iscsi_target_name=some-iscsi-target-name iscsi_target_port=3260 iscsi_target_ip=some.host root=LABEL=SOME_LABEL

or potentially the same above but with root=UUID=SOME_UUID.

The issue here is that this both LABEL and UUID could collide with a
local filesystem.   Perhaps a previous install left a filesystem labeled
"rootfs" that happened to match the filesystem of the iscsi_target_name
and now using "root=LABEL=rootfs".  The same is possible with UUID.

There needs to be some way to specify explicitly:
   root=iscsi_target_name=some-iscsi-target-name that would make the iscsi initialization code guaranteed to boot with the appropriate root device independent of whatever local filesystems might have.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: open-iscsi 2.0.873-3ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov  5 15:25:48 2012
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: open-iscsi
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: open-iscsi (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug quantal

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Title:
  no reliable way to boot from iscsi root

Status in “open-iscsi” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In order to boot from iscsi root via kernel parameters, the user would provide kernel parameters something like:
     iscsi_target_name=some-iscsi-target-name iscsi_target_port=3260 iscsi_target_ip=some.host root=LABEL=SOME_LABEL

  or potentially the same above but with root=UUID=SOME_UUID.

  The issue here is that this both LABEL and UUID could collide with a
  local filesystem.   Perhaps a previous install left a filesystem
  labeled "rootfs" that happened to match the filesystem of the
  iscsi_target_name and now using "root=LABEL=rootfs".  The same is
  possible with UUID.

  There needs to be some way to specify explicitly:
     root=iscsi_target_name=some-iscsi-target-name that would make the iscsi initialization code guaranteed to boot with the appropriate root device independent of whatever local filesystems might have.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: open-iscsi 2.0.873-3ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Nov  5 15:25:48 2012
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:
   TERM=screen
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: open-iscsi
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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