Re: Does netroot=isci: option work with latest dracut

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:12:48AM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Am 01.05.2012 18:47, schrieb Vivek Goyal:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On F17, I am trying kdump to an iscsi target. And I am passing a
> > netroot=iscsi:..... cmdline to dracut. But that does not seem to work.
> > 
> > Some debugging showed that we do parse the netroot= arguemnt in
> > parse-iscsiroot.sh but after that nothing happens. Nobody tries to
> > bring up the iscsi luns.
> > 
> > I see some code in iscsiroot.sh to call iscsistart to bring up iscsi
> > luns but that code does not seem to be hooked up. I could not figure
> > out who calls /sbin/iscsiroot.
> > 
> > So I am wondering if I am doing something wrong or there is some
> > disconnect in my understanding of how netroot= options works.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Vivek
> 
> did you specify "ip=..." ?

Yes I did specify "ip=..". Even if network is not up, I thought respective
code will try to bring up iscsi lun and fail. I am not seeing anybody even
trying to bring up iscsi lun.

What piece of code is supposed to do that. I don't see anybody calling
into /sbin/iscsiroot.

Thanks
Vivek