Hi,
I've been trying for a week by now to install Proxmox in an iSCSI boot environment. I took this: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_ISCSI_installation as a starting point, and have even tried many many variations found on different sites that talk about how to install Debian in an iSCSI boot environment. I've tried several of the PVE kernels with no luck. Just for the sake of it, I tried yesterday a regular Debian kernel and the server completed the boot successfully. Has this been tried successfully before? I'm just checking that the link I make reference to before is not just theory, but someone has actually tried it.
The scenario that I experience is that the LAN card initiates the ISCSI sequence, it transfers control to GRUB, which shows the correct kernel to use for the boot and then initramfs comes up, it says it attached successfully to the iSCSI partition and then the "final" boot starts. I see the network connections becoming active (ping from another server), and then it displays "Initiating iscsi targets" (or something similar). It sits there for 3 minutes or so and then it starts complaining that it cannot execute "/sbin/getty" (included in the default /etc/inittab) and complains about read errors on the disk (which, when booting with the regular Debian kernel are not shown) and it just repeats that series of errors over and over again.
Thanks
I've been trying for a week by now to install Proxmox in an iSCSI boot environment. I took this: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_ISCSI_installation as a starting point, and have even tried many many variations found on different sites that talk about how to install Debian in an iSCSI boot environment. I've tried several of the PVE kernels with no luck. Just for the sake of it, I tried yesterday a regular Debian kernel and the server completed the boot successfully. Has this been tried successfully before? I'm just checking that the link I make reference to before is not just theory, but someone has actually tried it.
The scenario that I experience is that the LAN card initiates the ISCSI sequence, it transfers control to GRUB, which shows the correct kernel to use for the boot and then initramfs comes up, it says it attached successfully to the iSCSI partition and then the "final" boot starts. I see the network connections becoming active (ping from another server), and then it displays "Initiating iscsi targets" (or something similar). It sits there for 3 minutes or so and then it starts complaining that it cannot execute "/sbin/getty" (included in the default /etc/inittab) and complains about read errors on the disk (which, when booting with the regular Debian kernel are not shown) and it just repeats that series of errors over and over again.
Thanks