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

[Mark Bell]

OK the gPXE client is not a vm its a physical machine i have two that do the same thing. 
 
I am able to create a vm client and boot gPXE and connect to WSS2008 with no problems.
I have other full OS's in VM (Ubuntu, and another Win2008r2) that can communicate with with the WSS2008 VM. These other VM OS's can also ping the physical gPXE clients
 
What i haven't had a chance to do yet is to boot a physical PC with an OS and see if i can hit the WSS2008 box. I will try that in the morning. If all else fails i will rebulid the WSS2008 image or  just scratch it and try Starwind iSCSI target on another server.
 
I was hoping to use the WSS but if i can't i will find another way.
 
Mark
 
 

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From: Michael Brown [mailto:mbrown at fensystems.co.uk]
Sent: Mon 2/22/2010 4:29 PM
To: Mark Bell
Cc: gpxe at etherboot.org
Subject: Re: [gPXE] Need some help trouble shooting intalling windows 7 via gPXE



On Monday 22 February 2010 20:35:19 Mark Bell wrote:
> Packets are not moving as they should be. I compared it against pinging the
> client from my Ubuntu box

I'm going to assume you mean that "ifstat" does *not* show the RX packet
counter incrementing as expected.

In that case, it looks as though you have a network problem, most likely
related to the VMware configuration.  Is the gPXE client a VM?  If so, then
try Shao's suggestion of booting an OS within this *same* VM, and checking
that it can communicate with the Win2k8 server.

Michael


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