Just a quick one - how to fix some annoyances when you are booting Raspbian off an iSCSI volume. I will also submit these to the Raspbian project...
Preventing a "DHCPRELEASE" when rebooting
Your /etc/network/interfaces must not have any references at all for eth0, not even a "iface eth0 inet dhcp". Mine is just
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
Don't shutdown the network interface when rebooting
In /etc/init.d/reboot, line number #29 you have:
reboot -d -f -i
The "-i" means stands for "Shut down all network interfaces just before halt or reboot."
Just remove that "-i" and then a reboot is actually happening.
Unsolved yet - when doing a "shutdown" it just sits there.
I still need to solve this one... please bear with me.