iSCSI Boot FreeBSD 12 & 13

MrX86

MrX86

I don't see any standards for Diskless iSCSI boot for FreeBSD

It should be present as an option for setup.

What do you think
 
MrX86 said:
I don't see any standards for Diskless iSCSI boot for FreeBSD
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It is because of PXE existence.
Try to boot FreeBSD via PXE, and mount everything else as you want, even iSCSI.
docs.freebsd.org

Chapter 34. Advanced Networking

Advanced networking in FreeBSD: basics of gateways and routes, CARP, how to configure multiple VLANs on FreeBSD, etc
docs.freebsd.org docs.freebsd.org

P.S.
I use FreeBSD as a PXE server for diskless-booting the tools related to my work.
 
Some BIOS'es allow you to boot from an iSCSI drive. For all intents and purposes this is just a disk image. Never tried it (still on my todo list) but I would share the memstick installer image with iSCSI and simply try to boot that.
 
I think:

DHCP - PXE -> IPXE -> TFTP -> ISCSI:LUN


I only know one Japanese with:

FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick-isboot-0.2.11.img
Doesn't work with my FreeBSD 12.2 ctld though
 
FreeBSD should be like CentOS
should offer this option as a menu item for the BASE installation. As well as NFS diskless boot.

That would be cool
 
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