[virt-tools-list] iSCSI disk goes missing after domU installation

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:25:03PM -0400, Alan McKay wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <
> konrad.wilk at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > No. The problem you said you had was that your installation
> > on your hard-disk could not boot.
> >
> 
> I do an install to an iSCSI target and the install goes great, disk gets
> partitioned, and with the live CD still running I check the disk and
> everything is there and fine - i.e. the whole installation.  But then when
> I try to boot from that iSCSI target it will not
> 
> 
> > Huh? GRUB2 doesn't even get loaded?
> >
> 
> 
> I guess I should have provided a screen shot right from the beginning -
> sorry
> 
> https://plus.google.com/photos/113518077816006248932/albums/5732421463318682369

Oh. So it is not even at the stage of GRUB.

So to boot from iSCSI you need to use an iSCSI software initiator.
Like gPXE or so. You can try to configure your DHCP server to serve you
that and boot that from your guest.


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