Re: [linux-iscsi-users] iSCSI boot problems - Invalid IOCTL

[Mike C. <mic...@cs...>]

Michael Brown wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm trying to get a machine booted with root disk on iSCSI. I'm pulling 
> the kernel/initrd off PXE at the moment.
> 
> When I get to the point in the boot process where iscsid loads, it comes 
> up, discovers the targets but logs error messages:
> iscsid: iSCSI session ioctl failed for 
> iqn.2006-12.ca.netdirect:blade1.linux.sys1, Inappropriate ioctl for 
> device: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> and just repeats that over and over again.
> 
> I assume it's talking about /dev/iscsictl, which is being created by 
> udev when the kernel module is inserted.
> 
> Initator is Centos 4.4, iscsi-initiator-utils-4.0.3.0-4, kernel 
> 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp
> Target is FC6, iscsitarget-0.4.14, kernel 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6
> 
> Any ideas on where to proceed with this? I'm really stuck.
> 

Is this using iscsid from iscsi-initiator-utils-4.0.3.0-4 or did you
write a app that uses the ioctl interface directly? It looks like you
might be using a different version of iscsid than the kernel drivers? Do
you know if your app is using the root boot ioctl command that older
versions of linux-iscsi had?