Freebsd 6.2 and booting from iSCSI

[Kirill Ponomarew]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:56:08PM -0600, The Presence wrote:
> I recently deployed a NetAPP S300 device, and I want to be able to load system OS from it.
> 
> I have several HP DL380 G3 systems that I want to be able to boot from iSCSI, but I am not sure how to proceed.  NetAPP states that the adapters I would want to do this are the QLA405x and QLA406x lines.  Since the HP DL380 G3s use PCI-X I need the QLA-4050 or the QLA-4052 adapters.  Unfortunately, QLogic states that they only support Windows, RHEL, and SuSE.
> 
> Firstly, has anyone had any luck booting from any system with FreeBSD.  My main drivers here are:
> 
> 1) I can do a bare-metal restore very simply.
> 2) I can easily change base system by just changing the TOE parameters in BIOS.
> 3) I can have multiple systems have access to the same data without having to have multiple copies of the data, but do this in block mode instead of file mode.
> 
> Secondly, has anyone actually had this work with the HP DL380 G3?  If so what HBA did you use to do it?  Since the QLogic network cards start at around $800 or so, I don't want to make this a trial and error effort, if its avoidable.

I think we don't support QLogic HBAs 4xxx.

-Kirill