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open-iscsi package

  1. Bug #237460
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 237460

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 237460] Re: Root on iscsi is not supported

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:52:43AM -0000, Kevin Otte wrote:
> What needs to be done to make the open-iscsi-udeb load earlier in the
> install sequence so its block devices are available to disk-detect?

disk-detect actually loads open-iscsi-udeb itself, so it probably isn't
that simple ...

> As for blowing away the networking, one possible solution: if the
> installer knows what interface the initiator came up on, it can set that
> to "manual" in /etc/network/interfaces as part of its cleanup.

Mmm, except interface names have a habit of changing at run-time. This
probably needs to be checked at run-time too, rather than hardcoded by
the installer.