ISCSI boot

[James Devine]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:08 PM, James Devine <fxmulder at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:55 PM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
>
>> > is very little traffic, a couple small packets every 5 seconds or so
>> and the
>> > install has been sitting at 33% for over an hour.  Any idea what I
>> might be
>> > doing wrong?****
>>
>> I have seen Ubuntu hang when it encounters a drive problem during
>> install, and others have reported the same thing. You might just try
>> installing a few times and you might get lucky. ****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> If not, look in the logs - its might be a timeout issue, or some easy to
>> correct iscsi parameter.****
>>
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>
> Well I've gotten past the install, right now ubuntu can't find the root
> device and drops me into a busybox shell.  I don't see anything under /dev
> that looks like a device I could mount either, /dev/sd*, /dev/hd* or
> /dev/md*
>


It seems the bios iscsi session won't carry the boot the full way, I can to
start another iscsi session through the initrd process
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