[gPXE] Iscsi booting an HP thin client with gPXE 1.0.0

[Andrew Bobulsky]

Mark,

Can you try disabling Automatic Restart on boot failure and tell us what the error code on the blue screen is?  Try tapping F8 after the gpxe connects to the iSCSI target and you should get an advanced boot options menu.

If the error is something like "Inaccessible boot device," then you're likely missing a NIC driver in your Win7 image, or the appropriate driver isn't set to load at boot time.

FWIW though, since you do manage to get the Windows Boot Manager loaded, I doubt this is a gPXE issue.

-Andrew Bobulsky


On Mar 18, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Mark Bell wrote:

> I see the Windows 7 splash screen then it blue screens and reboots
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Miletich [mailto:thomas.miletich at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:36 AM
> To: Mark Bell
> Cc: gpxe at etherboot.org
> Subject: Re: [gPXE] Iscsi booting an HP thin client with gPXE 1.0.0
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> On Thursday, March 18, 2010, Mark Bell <markb at pilgrim.com> wrote:
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>> Hey guys I am trying to diagnose a problem and want to rule
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>> I am trying to boot some HP thin clients using iscsi, gPXE
>> 1.0.0 and starwind iscsi target software.
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>> Booting a generalized windows 7 image. The clients connect
>> and begin to load Windows 7 Pro but then blue screen and reboot.
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>> Could this be a NIC driver issue?
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> When exactly does it reboot? Is gpxe still involved in the process or
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>> I have other Dell clients with intel nics that boot just
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>> Any help would be greatly appreciated .
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>> Thin clients are HP GT-7720's with Broadcom NIC's
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