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Is it possible boot from SAn storage

Subject: Is it possible boot from SAn storage
From: dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:25:51 -0400
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 07:03:42AM -0700, Dave Peters wrote:
> All,
> 
> The Blade server is connected to SAN Storage. Is it possible have linux OS image on SAN storage and boot from it? Just have a thought and have never done this before.
> 

Yes. Linux can boot from AoE or iSCSI volumes after PXE is used
to get the kernel up. 

-dsr-


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