[gPXE] Need some help trouble shooting intalling windows 7 via gPXE

[Michael Brown]

On Monday 22 February 2010 16:08:43 Mark Bell wrote:
> I am completely new to PXE and gPXE and I am having some problems getting
> this to work.
>
> I am attempting to install windows 7 with iscsi.
> I have a target setup on Windows 2008 Storage Server and have verified I
> can connect with another PC on the subnet and access the drive.
>
> The client PC has an intel pro100-GT adapter and I am chainloading the
> latest gpxe.
> I am running a dhcp server on Ubuntu 9.10 Server. The client gets an IP and
> loads gPXE just fine but will not connect to the iscsi target.
> I get " Could not initialize iSCSI devise: Connection Timed out
> (0x4c0a6035)"

That error is coming from the TCP stack; gPXE is unable to connect to 
192.168.100.140:3260.

You could try pinging gPXE from the Win2k8 server to verify that they can see 
each other: press Ctrl-B to get to the gPXE shell, type "dhcp net0" and 
then "route" to see what IP address is assigned to gPXE, then try pinging 
that IP address from the Win2k8 server.

You could also try running wireshark on the Win2k8 server to see if the iSCSI 
connection attempts from gPXE are showing up at all.

HTH,

Michael