On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:17:22 +0000 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Dan Horák <dan@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:50:29 +0100 > > Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 14:47 +0100, Dan Horák wrote: > >> > On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:41:15 +0100 > >> > Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > > >> > > s390(x) cannot boot from an iSCSI disk. > >> > > >> > what about other arches eg. ARM? > >> Is there any bug on that? And any HW/person for testing? > > > > I think boot from iSCSI should be enabled only for positive list of > > arches (like x86, ppc), I guess it requires special support in > > device firmware > > > > the Fedora/ARM list is in on CC > > It depends, you can boot using an initrd with SW iSCSI support (either > off a local card or via netboot) and have the rootfs on an iSCSI LUN > and there's a few people have done that with the Trimslice as a PCIe > attached gig interface tends to be faster than usb2 attached SSD. > > If you mean via an iSCSI HW device with appropriate firmware and > firmware provided iSCSI LUN where the OS just sees the usual /dev/sdX > style devices we don't currently see that functionality but I wouldn't > be surprised if it was available of some Server SoCs soon. This is about having initrd (and anaconda installed bootloader) on iSCSI LUN (that carries /boot), root on iSCSI should work even for s390 I think :-) Dan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
