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

[Mark Bell]

Michael
I am not seeing any iscsi attempts with wire shark. Only arp requests.

The only thing out of the ordinary with this set up is. It all lives in VMware 
except for clients

I am running ESXi that hosts my Ubuntu DHCP server and Windows Storage Server 
2008. NIC on ESXi is connected to a switch that connects my client and 
firewall, the Storage server can ping dhcp and FW gateway and any other VM I 
bringup.

My client can successfully chain load from 
http://etherboot.org/gtest/gtest.gpxe. I can also gPXE boot a vm and connect 
to the iscsi target

I have confirmed the firewall in Storage server is off and its routing table 
looks normal


I am stumped!

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Brown [mailto:mbrown at fensystems.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, 22 February, 2010 12:02 PM
To: gpxe at etherboot.org
Cc: Mark Bell
Subject: Re: [gPXE] Need some help trouble shooting intalling windows 7 via 
gPXE

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
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