Hello all!

I have set up a Debian(Wheezy7.0) SAN to boot a CentOS6 client. I have a successful connection between the iSCSI target and initiator and installed CentOS directly to the Debian SAN on its own physical hard drive (/dev/sdb1). I used Debian's iscsitarget for this. I then set up isc-dhcp-server on Debian to serve an address to the CentOS client which also works fine.

I'm stuck on how to set up the TFTP server, though. I tried using Debian's TFTPD-HPA but I am at a loss for how to point it to /dev/sdb1...

Any help would be much appreciated and thanks in advance for taking the time to read it!

Here are the notes I took while configuring this:

// Time to install some DHCP since it looks like CentOS is trying to boot via PXE and not receiving an address...

apt-get isc-dhcp-server
// Get a DHCP I've used before...

vim /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
option domain-name "example.com";
option domain-name-servers san0.example.com;
default-lease-time 6000;

allow booting;
allow bootp;

subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.99.10 192.168.99.20;
option broadcast-address 192.168.99.255;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.99.1;
}

group {
next-server 192.168.99.6;
host tftpclient {
hardware ethernet 00:0C:29:A8:93F;
filename "pxelinux.0";
}
}

service isc-dhcp-server restart

vim /var/log/daemon.log
// Verify DHCPDISCOVER, DHCPOFFER, DHCPREQUEST, DHCPACK are in use

apt-cache search tftpd
// Looks like the package on this howto is there

apt-get install tftpd-hpa

TFTP_USERNAME="initiator1"
TFTP_DIRECTORY="/dev/sdb1"
TFTP_ADDRESS="0.0.0.0:69"
TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure"

service tftpd-hpa restart
// Error on restart "Restarting HPA's tftpd: in.tftpd/dev/sdb1 missing, aborting..."

service tftpd-hpa status
// in.tftpd is not running ... failed