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====== Preparing Fedora Core 5 for iSCSI boot ======

These instructions assume that you have an installation of Fedora Core 5 on a local hard disk.  We will make this installation iSCSI-boot-capable, then copy it to a remote iSCSI target and boot from it.

Start by installing the kernel-devel and dkms packages:

  yum install kernel-devel
  yum install dkms

The kernel-devel package must match the version of your currently running kernel, which you can check using

  rpm -q kernel-devel
  uname -r

You will need to install the iSCSI initiator, the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table utilities, and the iSCSI-capable mkinitrd, which you can find at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=177003&package_id=203976&release_id=447506

Download and install (using ''rpm -Uvh'') the ''dkms-ibft'', ''dkms-iscsi_sfnet'', ''ibft'', ''linux-iscsi'', and ''mkinitrd-iscsi'' RPMs.

If all has gone well, you should now be able to test loading the iSCSI initiator and iBFT kernel modules using

  modprobe iscsi_sfnet
  modprobe ibft

You need to mark the network device that you will be using for boot.  Edit ''/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0'' (assuming that ''eth0'' is your boot network device), and append the line

  DEVICETYPE=boot

Lastly, you need to rebuild the initrd to include the iSCSI kernel modules, using

  /sbin/mkinitrd -f --force-iscsi /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r`

If you use LILO as your bootloader (rather than grub), then you will need to run ''lilo'' after this step.

You can now proceed to [[iscsiboot#Transferring the operating system image to an iSCSI target]].

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