[ipxe-devel] Need help in booting a FC volume using IPXE

[Parimala M V, Nitesh]

Hi All,

I have a FC volume(which has OS written onto it) created on the SAN and I've attached to a Server(Bare metal).
Now I want to boot that volume using IPXE. I know that using "sanhook" we can boot ISCSI volume.
From this "https://ipxe.org/sanuri" link I found that I can use "fcp" i.e. fibre channel protocol and boot the FC volume.

When I tried below code, I'm getting this error: "Could not open SAN device: Error 0x3f142083 (http://ipxe.org/3f142083)"

#!ipxe

sanhook --driver 0x80 fcp:10:00:70:10:6F:76:FC:32:0001

Any suggestions?

Regards
Nitesh

[Michael Brown]

Post by Parimala M V, Nitesh
I have a FC volume(which has OS written onto it) created on the SAN and
I've attached to a Server(Bare metal).
Now I want to boot that volume using IPXE. I know that using “sanhook”
we can boot ISCSI volume.
From this "https://ipxe.org/sanuri" link I found that I can use “fcp”
i.e. fibre channel protocol and boot the FC volume.
When I  tried below code, I'm getting this error: "Could not open SAN
device: Error 0x3f142083 (http://ipxe.org/3f142083)"

iPXE has a Fibre Channel initiator, but the only supported transport
layer is Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). Is your FC volume attached
via FCoE?

Michael