Users Guide

10–iSCSI Protocol
iSCSI Boot
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To create a new customized initrd for any new components update:
1. Update the iSCSI initiator if needed. You must first remove the existing
initiator using rpm -e.
2. Make sure all runlevels of network service are on:
chkconfig network on
3. Make sure 2, 3, and 5 runlevels of iSCSI service are on:
chkconfig -level 235 iscsi on
4. For Red Hat 6.0, make sure Network Manager service is stopped and
disabled.
5. (Optional) Install iscsiuio (not required for SUSE 10).
6. (Optional) Install the linux-nx2 package.
7. Install the bibt package.
8. Remove
ifcfg-eth*.
9. Reboot.
10. For SUSE 11.1, follow the remote DVD installation workaround shown in the
next section.
11. After the system reboots, log in, change to the /opt/bcm/bibt folder,
and run the iscsi_setup.sh script to create the offload and the
non-offload initrd image.
12. Copy the initrd image or images, offload and non-offload, to the /boot
folder.
13. Change the grub menu to point to the new initrd image.
14. To enable CHAP, you need to modify iscsid.conf (Red Hat only).
15. Reboot.
16. (Optional) Change CHAP parameters.