On Sep 23, 2015, at 9:16 AM, John Nielsen <li...@jnielsen.net> wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:12 AM, Yonas Yanfa <yo...@fizk.net> wrote: > >> isboot is a iSCSI boot driver written by Daisuke Aoyama that allows you to >> boot your root partition using iSCSI. > [,,,] >> This was first announced way back in June, 2010: >> >> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2010-June/004425.html >> >> I've tested the current version (v0.2.10) and it works with FreeBSD 10.2 >> booting a ZFS on root installation: >> >> http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/isboot/isboot-0.2.10.tar.gz >> >> I've used iSCSI boot with Ubuntu Server for a while and it's been very >> useful. I'm looking forward to FreeBSD having the same capability built-in. > > +1. I have used this module in the past and it is extremely useful. Thanks > for the pointer, I wasn’t aware it had been updated for FreeBSD 10.x so > recently. I’ve also wondered why this is not part of FreeBSD by default. > > Aoyama-san, do you have any objection to this code being included in FreeBSD? > If not, can you formally assign it a BSD or other friendly license? Thank you > again for the work! > > Trasz (or anyone), is there other work to support iSCSI booting and/or IBFT > on FreeBSD? Anything else isboot might conflict with? Any problems with > integrating the code or with the code itself? > > In the mean time, I’m going to work on adding an isboot port to the tree to > further ease installation and increase exposure. Proposed port here: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203294 _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
