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

Fascinating, two of the patches I recently submitted are relevant,
they did two things:
-Gave me the ability to only register drives without booting (sadly, I
was inelegant in that I immediately pxebooted, however, for my use
case it is  convenient to drive it by filename).  I made a separate
'iscsireg' function that could be wrapped by a 'sanregister' command
generically.
-Gave the ability to boot bios drive regardless of what is backing it.
(called it hdboot)

In any event, it seems a number of people agree that boot to a bios
drive is a convenient separate command to have, and people want to
register bios drives via san and not actually boot from them.

Keeping sanboot as a shortcut for the register/hdboot commands would
be convenient.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Kyle Kienapfel<[email protected]> wrote:
> http://git.etherboot.org/?p=gpxe.git;a=blob;f=src/arch/i386/interface/pcbios/iscsiboot.c
> 65         printf ( "Booting from BIOS drive %#02x\n", drive->drive );
> 66         rc = int13_boot ( drive->drive );
> 67         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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