From: Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: David Dillow <dave-i1Mk8JYDVaaSihdK6806/g@public.gmane.org>,
"initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org"
<initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: How to find the root partition with root=dhcp root-path=iscsi:::...
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:40:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3BBF97.3090403@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245427519.32104.2.camel-FqX9LgGZnHWDB2HL1qBt2PIbXMQ5te18@public.gmane.org>
On 06/19/2009 06:05 PM, David Dillow wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 08:21 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> On 06/19/2009 04:55 AM, David Dillow wrote:
>>> The RFC only says we need to boot off the LUN specified, 0 if none
>>> listed. That's your default partition.
>> ok, so the LUN is the partition number?
>
> No, a LUN is a whole disk. You would map the LUN to /dev/sda or /dev/sdb
> or such depending on which one it is, and use the entire disk -- no
> partitions needed. If you wanted to separate /var or /home etc, you
> would put them on a different LUN(s) -- partitions optional -- and
> use /etc/fstab to mount them.
hmm, so I would have to create a rule, which would look for the next disk which
appears and has some /sys magic iSCSI attributes and try to mount the whole disk.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-18 14:30 How to find the root partition with root=dhcp root-path=iscsi::: Harald Hoyer
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2009-06-18 16:06 ` Warren Togami
[not found] ` <4A3A65EC.1010404-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-18 17:01 ` Harald Hoyer
[not found] ` <4A3A72E9.3000605-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-18 17:06 ` Warren Togami
2009-06-19 2:55 ` David Dillow
[not found] ` <1245380152.28792.9.camel-FqX9LgGZnHWDB2HL1qBt2PIbXMQ5te18@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-19 6:21 ` Harald Hoyer
[not found] ` <4A3B2E6D.2000809-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-19 16:05 ` David Dillow
[not found] ` <1245427519.32104.2.camel-FqX9LgGZnHWDB2HL1qBt2PIbXMQ5te18@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-19 16:40 ` Harald Hoyer [this message]
[not found] ` <4A3BBF97.3090403-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-19 17:11 ` David Dillow
2009-06-18 17:29 ` Warren Togami
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