Bug 402014

Summary:	Cannot configure iscsi boot.
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Hiroshi Nakamoto <hiroshi-n>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Hannes Reinecke <hare>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Blocker
Priority:	P5 - None	Keywords:	Install
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
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Description Hiroshi Nakamoto 2008-06-20 07:04:22 UTC

OpenSUSE 10.3 can be configured to boot from iSCSI volume with Intel Server Adaptor Pro 1000/MT + iSCSI boot firmware. By specifying "withiscsi=1" as installation option, OpenSUSE 10.3 correctly reads iBFT information and connects the iscsi target set in the firmware.

OpenSUSE 11.0 also reads iBFT information and shows it in the iBFT tabpane, but fails in connecting the iscsi target. Evn with "add" operation, it never connects to the specified the target. No matter which DHCP or fixed IP address is specified, it never succeeds.

Pinging from another machine also fails ( in case fixed IP address is give ). So I guess that OpenSUSE 11.0 does not initialize the NIC as specified by iBFT or manually.

Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-20 07:24:54 UTC

yes, iscsi is not supported with 11.0. There are several problems with it

Comment 3 Hiroshi Nakamoto 2008-06-20 07:35:35 UTC

Considering the fact that the UI (and "withiscsi=1" option ) is still there,  it will be back in future ? Our system depends on iSCSI boot capability.

Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-23 09:27:13 UTC

openSUSE is tested by its community and unless that community tests alphas and betas on such systems, it's unlikely that it will be supported. That is: the support will be provided as is, if it happens to work, it's in, otherwise it's out. So feel invited to join the openSUSE 11.1 beta testing.

Comment 5 Hannes Reinecke 2008-06-23 10:19:57 UTC

This is actually due to a known mkinitrd bug which fails to configure the network.
But iSCSI  but definitely is a feature for openSUSE 11.1 (and SLES11).
A new mkinitrd will be pushed out via openSUSE updates soon.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 390756 ***