Bug 223221

Summary:	boot from iSCSI volume fails because iscsiadm doesn't support -M flag
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Martin Wilck <martin.wilck>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	5.1	CC:	coughlan, konradr, mchristi, tao
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHEL-5.0	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Last Closed:	2007-10-25 17:05:55 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	200224, 228022, 246139, 296411

Description Martin Wilck 2007-01-18 15:00:27 UTC

Description of problem:
Reboot after installation on iSCSI volume fails. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.1.19-2.1 (RHEL5 RCS 6)

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL5 on iSCSI volume (using "advanced storage configuration")
2. Press "Ok" on "congratulations" screen
  
Actual results:
Root filesystem isn't found

Expected results:
Normal boot

Additional info:
No initial RAM disk is created during installation. The reason is that mkinitrd
calls "iscsiadm -M <sysfs file>" but iscsiadm (iscsi-iniator-utils
6.2.0.742-0.2.el5) doesn't support that flag and exits with an error.

Further remark: The EL5 rescue system apparently has no support for iSCSI
storage, so recovering from this problem is extremely tedious because the whole
iscsi system must be setup by hand. iSCSI support in the rescue system would be
highly desirable.

Comment 2 Mike Christie 2007-02-22 19:01:05 UTC

The iscsiadm -M <sysfs file> is fixed in iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.742-0.3.
And mkinitrd was fixed in 5.1.19.5-1. Here is the bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221088

Do we want to keep this bugzilla open for the second part of the BZ asking for
rescue system support?

Comment 5 Peter Jones 2007-05-02 18:50:00 UTC

It's unclear from the comments on this bug - is this issue still a problem?

Comment 6 Mike Christie 2007-05-02 18:58:16 UTC

The bug where -M sysfs_file was not working is fixed. We have testers reporting
success.

The second part of the BZ that requests iscsi support for the rescue system is
still open. Not sure how you want to handle that. Open a new BZ for that request
or use this BZ?

Comment 7 Martin Wilck 2007-05-03 07:23:30 UTC

Peter: no, the problem has been solved shortly before RHEL5 GA. Installation on
iSCSI works fine now (see issue tracker #119765, though).

Mike: we haven't tried the rescue system for some time (precisely because the
installations worked well).

Comment 10 Larry Troan 2007-05-15 14:37:12 UTC

Adding beta blocker flag per Sly. This is not really a 5.1 beta blocker.

Comment 13 David Cantrell 2007-10-25 17:05:55 UTC

Closing this bug.  Open new bugs for secondary issues.  The original issue
stated in the summary has been fixed.