Re: [OSR-devel] iSCSI Mods - Changed Files Attached

[Gordan B. <go...@bo...>]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Gordan Bobic wrote:

>>>> I have attached a tar ball of files that I changed (or added) in the
>>>> standard setup to get iSCSI to work.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if I omitted anything.
>>>>
>>>> There is probably some pruning that could be done to this (I went for
>>>> including full RPMs + configs), which was arguably sub-optimal - there is
>>>> likely to be some docs/man pages included (not that anyone is likely to
>>>> notice next to 70MB of drivers :^).
>>>>
>>>> I also hard-removed (C)LVM stuff - something that you probably won't want
>>>> to merge into the main tree.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for all the help over the last few days, and for accepting my
>>>> patches. I really appreciate it. This is by far the most postive OSS
>>>> experience I have had to date. :-)
>>>>
>>>> Gordan
>>>
>>> Attached you'll find the latest rpm with iscsi included.
>>> Last thing you should have to have is either rootsource=iscsi as bootparam or
>>> in com_info <rootsource name="iscsi"/>.
>>> Also add to the /etc/comoonics/bootimage/files.initrd.d/user_edit.list
>>> the /var/lib/iscsi/nodes/iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic\:1-234567-89abcdef0-123456789abcdef0-ssi-root/10.10.10.1\,3260
>>>
>>> Let me know if it works.
>>
>> It appears to be broken. The new initrd fails to fire up iSCSI. Where my
>> old hard-coded version would modprobe the required modules and start up
>> iscsid and iscsi, the new version doesn't.
>>
>> I added <rootsource name="iscsi"/> to the com_info section on every node.
>>
>> Did I miss something?
>
> I just added the rootsource=iscsi kernel boot option, and that doesn't fix
> it. Carefully looking at the screen log, the iSCSI TCP transport module
> does appear to get loaded, but the iscsid and iscsi services don't get
> started.

Hmm... It looks like iSCSI is getting started correctly after all. It does 
come up and brings up the block device. The problem is somewhere else. It 
may be a good idea to not silence the iscsi startup, just for easier 
overview of what happens and what doesn't (unless you particularly object 
to a few green OKs among the blues).

Gordan