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

[Mark Bell]

Update:

Created a fresh VM of WSS2k8 still failed to communicate to gPXE clients
Attached physical pc to network and it to failed to connect.

!!!!!!Swapped out Brand New physical switch with a piece of crap from home and 
its working!!!!!!

Thanks for your help and sorry for bothering you with a hardware issue

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Brown [mailto:mbrown at fensystems.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, 22 February, 2010 5:31 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 21:57:31 Mark Bell wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.  It does sound like a VMware network configuration issue on the WSS2k8
box.  I would strongly recommend trying to debug connectivity between the
WSS2k8 VM and an external physical box with an OS, since that's a much easier
diagnostic environment than gPXE.

Michael
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