iPXE SAN boot VBox with Fedora14

[mcb30]

Thanks for writing that up!

(2011-04-08 17:21)hsuanyeh Wrote:  Once you are done with the installation, you can use the same iPXE image to SAN boot from the iSCSI target. I created another iPXE script file which looks like:

Code:

#!ipxe
set initiator-iqn iqn.2011-04.com.domain:vbox.initiator
set iscsi-target iscsi:domain.com::::iqn.2011-03.com.domain:disk.img
set root-path ${iscsi-target}
sanboot ${root-path} ||

If you want to, you can use the prompt command to unify the install.ipxe and boot.ipxe scripts into a single fedora.ipxe script:

Code:

#!ipxe
set initiator-iqn iqn.2011-04.com.domain:vbox.initiator
set iscsi-target iscsi:domain.com::::iqn.2011-03.com.domain:disk.img
set root-path ${iscsi-target}
# Set "skip-san-boot" only if user presses F12
prompt --key 0x197e --timeout 2000 Press F12 to install Fedora... && set skip-san-boot-1 ||
set keep-san 1
sanboot ${root-path} ||
# Use BFO to install
set base-url http://fedora.mirrors.pair.com/linux/releases/14/Fedora/i386/os/images
kernel ${base-url}/pxeboot/vmlinuz stage2=${base}/install.img
initrd ${base-url}/pxeboot/initrd.img
boot

If the user presses F12 within two seconds, then the installer will run, otherwise the system will boot normally from the SAN.