Bug#691977: please add be2iscsi module to d-i image
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 08:20 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
>> reassign 691977 linux
>> thanks
>>
>> Quoting Aron Xu (happyaron.xu@gmail.com):
>> > Package: debian-installer
>> >
>> > Dear d-i maintainers,
>> >
>> > I found that be2iscsi module is absent in d-i image. The module are the
>> > driver of iSCSI functions in Emulex be2/3 NICs, which is a standard
>> > configuration for HP BL490c G7 blade servers.
>> >
>> > Missing this module makes d-i not able to detect the hard drive provided by
>> > the iSCSI HBA in the Emulex NIC, hence not able to install the system to
>> > SAN, which is vital for diskless configurations.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion. This indeed belongs to kernel packages as
>> the linux source package is the one building d-i kernels and modules
>> set.
>
> I'm not familiar with NICs that do iSCSI offload. Does the host need to
> provide any configuration to them, or is that all handled by the
> on-board firmware?
Theoretically the new device should appear as something like a disk in
host OS (looks like something in /dev/mapper/, but I'm not familiar
with the kernel), at least on RHEL (also VMWare ESXi) and SuSE it
works in such a way. While it may not work out of box on Debian
because in my test Ubuntu 12.10 server iso has be2iscsi driver and the
driver can be loaded automatically, but no additional disk-like device
appear in partman.
HP BL490/495 are almost targeted for virtualization, and it's very
common to have only a small SD card within, or even completely
diskless. I can do test for this issue to make it work on Debian, we
have spare machine for testing.
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Regards,
Aron Xu
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