Comment 2 for bug 546964

I'm encountering the same issue with a Broadcom network card using the tg3 driver. Just as reported above, the installation onto iscsi worked without issue, but the iscsi boot process in the initrd seems to go into a loop doing network configuration.

In my case, I also have encrypted swap configured and after looping for some time, they system attempts to drop me into busybox and prompts me for the password, but then hangs after attempting mountall.

Another thing to note is that I have /boot and / on a local USB disk and am using iscsi for /usr, /var, and /opt only.