On 08/19/2016 02:11 PM, Fredrik Nilsson wrote: > The contents of initiatornam.iscsi is one line: > > GenerateName=yes
Ok, there's the problem. The message from iscsistart is misleading, because not the target name is invalid, but the initiator name. (Probably because of the way the options are passed, it thinks that way.) The reason why that is is actually a bug in open-iscsi, because while it does copy the proper file into the root filesystem at the end of the installer, it doesn't re-generate the initramfs, so that only contains the default file. This was fixed in Stretch anyway because we now generate the initiator name on install (in postinst), but not upon first start of the daemon anymore. I've now reported this bug, to be able to track it. https://bugs.debian.org/834830 (I've reproduced the problem in a VM on my system.) I'll try to get a fix that for into the next point release - no promises though. If you want to boot your system in the mean time, there is a trick you can do, once you're in the initramfs shell: echo InitiatorName=iqn.test:test > /etc/initiatorname.iscsi /scripts/local-top/iscsi exit That should boot your system. Once you're in the system, you need to run (as root): update-initramfs -k all -u And then your system should boot normally. > Looking at the kernel parameters there is no mentioning of any ip settings. > I have tried supplying static ip settings, initiatorname and target name as > kernel parameters but to me it looked liked those settings where ignored. Yeah, so I checked again, and setting kernel parameters is actually not necessary. (And won't change anything.) > I have also tried to set the target name via the dhcp root-path option, > which is then written out on the console at boot time, but the result is > still the same error message and a drop to the initrams shell. No, that doesn't help at all. In Jessie, open-iscsi is configured via the files /etc/iscsi/iscsi.initramfs and /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi, and there's no way to override things. In Stretch, there will be some support for root=iscsi:... though. The DHCP parameters are completely ignored even there though. (I'm not sure it'd be easy to support that reliably across different types of configurations.) Regards, Christian
