Subject: Re: SAN boot/aoe support for init script (initramfs)
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From: Tuan Hoang <tmhoang@linux.ibm.com>
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 12:46:08 +0200
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This sounds interesting. Guess I'd setup a VM acting as SAN and PXE
server to feed storage disks to other VM booting with AOE.

Then I could have a look into patching initramfs. Sounds like a plan.

On 7/23/20 8:51 AM, Vittorio Mori wrote:
> I am building a boot server with Alpine for my homeserver.
> 
> I'd like to use aoe (ATA over ethernet) for my SAN, to boot the distro
> from the SAN directly, with iPXE.
> 
> I managed to make it work by adding the necessary files into the initram
> (network modules, aoe modules, aoe utils), but the initramfs init script
> always ends up to the emergency shell (, and I have to mount sysroot by
> hand with three commands:
> 
> ifconfig eth0 up
> /usr/sbin/aoe-discover
> mount /dev/ethernet/e0.0p3 /sysroot
> 
> when I exit the emergency shell, the system boots regularly and
> everything is fine.
> 
> I tried to modify the init script, but it looks fairly complex and hard
> to understand in some parts, and I can't make it work as expected.
> 
> Can I get some hints on how to put those three commands into init ?
> 
> Thanks.
>