[gPXE] how can I boot from a hardware iscsi target

[Michael Brown]

On Monday 15 Mar 2010 07:48:53 SaintDragon wrote:
>      7. Unplug the SCSI disk from the machine, and use the usb key to boot
>  the machine. When prompt, press CTRL+B into gpxe command line. use config
>  command to configure the network card witch IP 192.168.1.144, mask with
>  255.255.255.0. 8. Then I use command sanboot to try to boot from the SAN.
>  The command I type is 'sanboot
>  iscsi:192.168.1.11::::iqn.1982-02.iscsiraid:raid-000a2021a:default-target'
> . But after several seconds, gpxe promt the following message: "Could not
>  initialise iSCSI device: Connection timed out (0x4c0a6035) Could not boot
>  from
>  iscsi:192.168.1.11::::iqn.1982-02.iscsiraid:raid-000a2021a:default-target:
>  Connection timed out (0x4c0a6035)"

Using the config command is unlikely to work, unless you know what you're 
doing.  You would need to configure the correct network interface (e.g. "config 
net0" rather than just "config") and you would also need to open the device 
(e.g. "ifopen net0").

Why not just use DHCP?

Michael