Re: Anyone here would consider to split the sanboot comand into two commands?

http://git.etherboot.org/?p=gpxe.git;a=blob;f=src/arch/i386/interface/pcbios/iscsiboot.c
65<http://git.etherboot.org/?p=gpxe.git;a=blob;f=src/arch/i386/interface/pcbios/iscsiboot.c#l65>
       printf ( "Booting from BIOS drive %#02x\n", drive->drive );
66<http://git.etherboot.org/?p=gpxe.git;a=blob;f=src/arch/i386/interface/pcbios/iscsiboot.c#l66>
       rc = int13_boot ( drive->drive );
67<http://git.etherboot.org/?p=gpxe.git;a=blob;f=src/arch/i386/interface/pcbios/iscsiboot.c#l67>
       printf ( "Boot failed\n" );

Looks like a willing coder could add a dont_boot option similar to the
keep_san option for the use case you want. Lines 65-67 would get surrounded
by the if statement

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Yiyi Hu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Lazy typer here...
>
> 21:32 < xinming_> mdc_mobile: I really hope that sanboot command will
> be splited into 2 commands.
> 21:32 < mdc_mobile> 2 commands?
> 21:32 < xinming_> otherwise, re-installing system might be a pain.
> 21:32 < mdc_mobile> Have you suggested this on Etherboot-Discuss?
> 21:33 < xinming_> mdc_mobile: I mean, first do,    'ibft
> iscsi:blabla:bleble.......'   then,  another sanboot command
> 21:33 < xinming_> mdc_mobile: Not yet.
> 21:33 < xinming_> mdc_mobile: as someone ever told me that's not
> needed at all. :-)
> 21:33 < xinming_> Otherwise, if we want to re-install the system, we
> need to touch the server side.
> 21:35 < mdc_mobile> Sounds like an interesting use case.  I would
> definitely send an email to Etherboot-Discuss explaining this
> scenario. I think you can "set root-path iscsi: .... "
> 21:36 < xinming_> mdc_mobile: do you mean,   set root-path iscsi:...
> will set the iBFT in the memory?
> 21:37 < mdc_mobile> If there is no filename, root-path is where gPXE
> tries to boot from.
> 21:38 < mdc_mobile> I don't think it writes the iBFT though.
> 21:38 < mdc_mobile> So we may need another command to do so.
> 21:38 < xinming_> mdc_mobile: But still, it'll boot into the
> going-to-be-deleted system.
>
> To summarize the conversation. Let's split the sanboot into 2
> commands, to make people who want to re-install the system over iSCSI
> more handy. Without the pain of touching the server doing something
> like      dd if=/dev/zero of=file_image.
>
> Any ideas please?  :-)
>
> xinming
>
>
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