Comment 4 for bug 447377

By the way, the reason I'm asking these questions is that the installer is *already* supposed to set things up such that the initrd is generated with iSCSI support if the root filesystem is on iSCSI. (We don't do it by default because we have very aggressive boot time targets and every additional chunk in the initramfs slows things down; in any case, there's no point putting iSCSI support in the initramfs unless the configuration is also in place, and you're seeing this bug precisely because the configuration is not in place for some reason.) You're phrasing your comments in terms of a feature request; what I'm saying is that the feature is already present, but for some reason it is not working for you, hence my requests for specific files.

I agree that the networking setup is wrong. The least invasive fix for this will be to extend the check for network filesystems that's already in that script to detect root-on-iSCSI as well.

Could you file a separate bug report with your TFTP suggestions, please? We'd have to think about them in some more depth, and they're not specific to iSCSI.

Sadly, iSCSI support currently won't fit on the desktop CD, and is unlikely to be higher priority than other things the desktop team want to do ...