[gPXE] sanboot not supported

[Thomas Miletich]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:47 PM,  <erin.coffey at tektronix.com> wrote:
> Hi Josh:
>
> That's where I started.
>
> The image from Rom-0-matic didn't have a driver for my Intel " 8086 109A " Network adaptor so gpxe didn't see net0. I got the e1000e-only.iso from an email that Marty sent: http://etherboot.org/pipermail/gpxe/2010-January/000312.html
>
> Now I do see net0 from gpxe but, I'm getting the sanboot Error.
>
> Is there an gpxe.iso that has support for my nic and for iscsi?

Did you try gPXE 1.0 instead of the latest git tree? It's not
supported in that version yet, but it is in the latest git tree.

Thomas

> Thank you,
>
> Erin
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oremanj at gmail.com [mailto:oremanj at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Joshua Oreman
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 10:35 AM
> To: Coffey, Erin
> Cc: gpxe at etherboot.org
> Subject: Re: [gPXE] sanboot not supported
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:24 PM,  <erin.coffey at tektronix.com> wrote:
>> [ . . . ]
>> When I remove the w7 HD and boot to the gpxe environment (e1000e-only.iso)
>> the initiator recognizes the network (net0) and 'dhcp net0' returns the
>> correct mac address and I see the 'ok' message.
>>
>> The problem I'm having is that my sanboot cmd is failing. I try 'sanboot
>> iscsi:192.168.1.100::::iqn.2007-08.100.1.168.192:iscsiboot' but, I get this
>> message:
>>
>>  "Could not boot from
>> iscsi:192.168.1.100::::iqn.2007-08.100.1.168.192:iscsiboot: Not supported
>> (0x3c03e003)"
>>
>> I'm not sure if my sanboot syntax is wrong or if I have neglected to
>> configure the server settings appropriately? I'm new to network
>> administration tasks so it's likely that I mis configured something or
>> forgot something else entirely.
>
> That error code results from gPXE not knowing about the SAN boot
> protocol you specified (in this case "iscsi"). How did you compile
> e1000e-only.iso? It's possible to make a version of gPXE without iSCSI
> support but it's not the default. I would try getting gpxe.iso (the
> "all drivers" image) from rom-o-matic.net, and see if that works.
>
> -- Josh
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Can you take a look at my .conf files below and tell me where I went wrong?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>>
>>
>> Erin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> This is all I have in my ietd.conf file:, everything else is commented out:
>>
>>
>>
>> Target iqn.2007-08.100.1.168.192:iscsiboot
>>
>>                 Lun 0 Path=/home/erincof/DPO70804B_LANBO.img, Typef=fileio
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> This is what I have in my dhcpd.conf file:
>>
>>
>>
>> allow booting;
>>
>> allow bootp;
>>
>> DHCPDARGS=eth0
>>
>> ddns-update-style none;
>>
>> authoritative;
>>
>> option domain-name "Lanbo.org";
>>
>> option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.100;
>>
>> INTERFACES="eth0 eth1";
>>
>> option space gpxe;
>>
>> option gpxe-encap-opts code 175 = encapsulate gpxe;
>>
>> option gpxe.keep-san code 8 = unsigned integer 8;
>>
>> filename "";
>>
>>
>>
>> host lanbo-server {
>>
>>                 hardware Ethernet 00:06:5b:84:53:86;
>>
>>                 fixed-address 192.168.1.100;
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> option root-path
>> "iscsi:192.168.1.100::::iqn.2007-08.100.1.168.192:iscsiboot";
>>
>>
>>
>> subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>>
>>                 range 192.168.1.201 192.168.1.220;
>>
>>                 default-lease-time 86400;
>>
>>                 max-lease-time 86400;
>>
>>                 option routers 192.168.1.1;
>>
>>                 option ip-forwarding off;
>>
>>                 option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
>>
>>                 option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>>
>>                 option ntp-servers 192.168.1.100;
>>
>>                 option netbios-name-servers 192.168.1.100;
>>
>>                 host lanbo-client {
>>
>>                                 hardware Ethernet 00:d0:c9:ab:ae:6c;
>>
>>                                 fixed-address 192.168.1.202;
>>
>>                 }
>>
>> }
>>
>>
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