[gPXE] Windows 7 Install to iSCSI with gPXE

[Nick Couchman]

Yes, I have keep-san set.  Apparently the issue was AHCI vs. ATA in the BIOS - setting it to ATA seemed to free things up.  Strange.  I'm using the COMSTAR iSCSI Target on Opensolaris.

-Nick

>>> On 2010/02/11 at 16:41, "Tal Aloni" <tal.aloni.il at gmail.com> wrote: 
> I've been trough that message a couple of times before I managed to install 
> windows 7,
> eventually I managed to install using PXE chainloading, and WinPE 3.0, and 
> did that many time over since.
> 
> have you added 'set keep-san 1' to the command sequence? (according to my 
> experience, the disk still shows up without it! but not installable)
> 
> you can also try what I did, and boot without any local media: after iscsi 
> fail, fallback to WinPE 3.0 via tftp. this might help, because gPXE will stay 
> loaded.
> 
> it also helps to install to empty disk, and then create partition, make it 
> active and assign it (just before installation).
> if all else fail, try using another software target. (Microsoft iSCSI 
> software target require that you use 'set gateway' to the server immediately 
> after dhcp)
> 
> Tal




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