[dmankg]

hi all,
i have 8 XBMC clients working perfectly.
they all use zotac ion motherboards and boots from usb flash.
currently i am thinking to make them all diskless.
i have tried dushmaniac way but it didnt work out.
today done following staff but still problems.
1. succesfully installed xbmc live on remote iscsi disk.
2. using gpxe, booted from iscsi disk succesfuly.
3. xbmc splash page comes up.
4. half way to proper boot tty says saome errors in initramfs.
5. stucked
can somebody tell what should i do make further steps for succesfull boot from iscsi disk. logically it should be ok coz xbmc was installed on iscsi disk.

[jensemann]

.. very cool idea. keep us informed about your progress!

[darkscout]

hi all,
i have 8 XBMC clients working perfectly.
they all use zotac ion motherboards and boots from usb flash.
currently i am thinking to make them all diskless.
i have tried dushmaniac way but it didnt work out.
today done following staff but still problems.
1. succesfully installed xbmc live on remote iscsi disk.
2. using gpxe, booted from iscsi disk succesfuly.
3. xbmc splash page comes up.
4. half way to proper boot tty says saome errors in initramfs.
5. stucked
can somebody tell what should i do make further steps for succesfull boot from iscsi disk. logically it should be ok coz xbmc was installed on iscsi disk.

Have you told initramfs config that you want it to build a netboot kernel instead of a local one?

Not sure how this works with iscsi, but you need to do that with NFS.

Then there is this:
http://wili.cc/blog/iscsi.html

[dmankg]

Have you told initramfs config that you want it to build a netboot kernel instead of a local one?

no i haven't also i dont even know how to tell initramfs to do that

Not sure how this works with iscsi, but you need to do that with NFS.

Then there is this:
http://wili.cc/blog/iscsi.html

thank you looking forward for other suggestions.

[esprit]

Just follow the doc on gpxe website to rebuild an iscsi-capable initrd :
http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/ubuntu_iscsi2

Works very well for me.

By the way, if you use zotac systems with an nvidia forcedeth chipset for the network, you should use ipxe rather than gpxe (gpxe development is dead for a year, ipxe is its successor), ipxe applied a patch recently that fixed a performance caveat on such chipsets and really improves boot time : http://ipxe.org/

If you have any problem, I'll be happy to help.