Problem with iPXE and AoE

[Nestor]

mcb30 Wrote:It looks as though your AoE target is simply not responding. You could try capturing a packet trace to see what's really happening.

I doubt this is the case, because when I booted from the client with the hard drive installed and used the commands aoe-stat and aoeping, they both produced the correct reply from the AoE device, as expected. Also, if I boot from a CD with the iPXE ISO, it loads the AoE device, otherwise GRUB would not even appear. Unless by "AoE target" you are referring to something else.

mcb30 Wrote:

Nestor Wrote:Hmm... I was under the impression that iPXE already had support for AoE. Both the server and image certainly have all the required kernel modules and packages. Do I need to take extra steps then? If so, please point me to the relevant manual.

iPXE does already have support for AoE. However, your loaded kernel+initrd also needs to have its own support for AoE, otherwise Linux won't be able to connect to the AoE target in order to mount the root filesystem.

Please define to what exactly you refer by "Loaded kernel+initrd", and also I would appreciate if you pointed me to the procedure, because I have been using the default unpatched undionly.kpxe file, under the assumption that it already had everything required to boot from an AoE device.