[gPXE] Windows 7 and gpxe iSCSI diskless boot

[Nick Couchman]

Did you install Windows 7 onto iSCSI, or did you copy an image over of an existing installation to an iSCSI volume.  My testing in this same realm (I even use ZFS :-) indicated that it was important for Windows 7 to be installed to iSCSI instead of just imaged.  I think it probably has something to do with the drivers that get set to load at boot time, the order they're loaded in, etc.

-Nick

>>> Stefan Mosoi  03/12/10 3:13 AM >>>
Hello, 
  I have a problem with booting Windows 7 with gPXE and iSCSI. I install on the iSCSI image a Windows 7 (it worked no problems here) .. but when i try to boot again from it , it hangs after the connection with the iSCSI target is created. 

On the server i have FreeBSD 8.0, isc-dhcp and istgt v0.2 with the image being on a ZFS partition. 

 I have tried all tricks on etherboot.org how-to's and still no success.
Any sugestions are welcomed

Thank you,
 Stefan Mosoi



      


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