Hi, (writing this from my phone, so please pardon my bottom quote)
For reference: I co-maintain open-iscsi in Debian. Could you provide the contents of the initiatorname.iscsi and iscsi.initramfs files in the initramfs verbatim? (Anonymizing users/passwords is OK of course.) Also: did you specify the target as a host name or IP address? IIRC only IP addresses work for rootfs on iSCSI. (Not sure though and I am not in front of a computer to check.) Furthermore: does the initramfs run its own DHCP client? Do you have ip=dhcp (or an equivalent static config) in your kernel command line args? (The installer should set this.) Regards, Christian Am 19. August 2016 08:27:00 MESZ, schrieb Fredrik Nilsson <afredr...@gmail.com>: >Hi, > >I have installed Debian Jessie (8.5) on an iscsi disk but I am having >difficulty booting the system afterwards. (The installation itself went >smoothly although a bit slow.) > >The Supermicro server I have at my disposal mounts the iscsci target >fine >via bios/nic firmware and grub loads then up nicely. But the problem >starts >after grub when the the ip-address has been retrieved via dhcp. > >iscsistart then tries to mount the iscsi device but fails with the >following line > >iscsistart: TargetName not set. Exiting iscsistart > >It then drops me into the initramfs shell. From there I have been able >to >find /etc/iscsi.initrams and /etc/initiatorname.iscsi which seems to >contain the correct information to mount the target. > >Any additional parameters I add to the kernel command line via grub >seems >to be ignored. > >When I googled this error message I found an old error that was caused >by >the network not bein available at the time iscsistart was started, but >it >was several years that particular issue was resolved. > >Any help on how I can debug and fix this is much appreciated. > >Thanks! > >/Fredrik
