[12:42] <gpiccoli> Hellom how are you doing? Sorry to bother. I have a question regarding iSCSI during installer
[12:42] <gpiccoli> Is it supported, right?
[12:42] <gpiccoli> How can we set the initiator name of the installer? Is there some automatic configuration?
[12:43] <gpiccoli> My target refuses to "be recognized" since it's initiator name is not configured on target
[15:20] <cyphermox> gpiccoli: I suppose the initiator name might be the hostname?
[15:21] <cyphermox> iscsi should be supported, but you might need to enable it first, and unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with iscsi to know all the details
[15:27] <cyphermox> ok, looks like when you boot you need to set, on the command-line:  partman-iscsi/login/address
[15:27] <cyphermox> and
[15:29] <cyphermox> and it should be asking you for a username, which would be the initiator username...
[15:29] <cyphermox> xnox: can you help me out? ^ I thought you played with iscsi before?
[15:45] <gpiccoli> Thanks very much cyphermox!
[15:45] <cyphermox> sorry I can't be more helpful, but I never touched iSCSI at all
[15:45] <gpiccoli> I could access iSCSI my manually mounting it on shell, "faking" the initiator name as one already set on target
[15:46] <cyphermox> ok, good
[15:48] <gpiccoli> after this, next test was to stop installation at beginning and override the isci-start procedure to force my initiator name to match the one already on target - worked too
[15:48] <gpiccoli> I think I need more to know if it's expected my target accept any initiator name since Ubuntu installer will generate a random one each install
[15:48] <gpiccoli> Hope you or xnox can help me figure what is expected!
[20:22] <cyphermox> cjwatson: do you recall if there's a reason why prep is being dd'ed to only in grub-installer, and not in a commit.d script in partman-prep?
[21:18] <cjwatson> cyphermox: because it's grub-installer that has the information on the intended disk to boot from; we need that context to work out the right PReP partition in multiple-disk cases
[21:18] <cyphermox> ok, so can't dd on any other prep, gotcha
[21:20] <cyphermox> I was asking because we do create a prep partition while partitioning
[21:21] <cjwatson> indeed
[21:35] <cyphermox> thanks