[gPXE] Only register bios drive without booting
Andrey Kuzmin
maillists at egodot.net
Tue Mar 23 10:51:40 EDT 2010
> In regards to your request to use gPXE to register a drive but not boot
> from it, the "Install direct to SAN" link from the "HowTo Guides" lands
> you here[1]. That might help for understanding the "keep-san" setting
> and how it can be used to maintain the iSCSI connection after control
> returns back to gPXE from an unbootable MBR.
I've read this so many times so could retell what is written here from
head :))
> If you have a valid MBR on the SAN and no active partitions, return
> should control back to gPXE.
That could be mine problem. Partion is active now, may be that's why I
could not return to gPXE.
OK. Let me describe what I'm trying to do with Windows 7 installation.
Straightforward installation do not work due to "Windows cannot be
installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support
booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in
the computer's BIOS menu" warning.
So I've attached HDD and then Win7 installed to iSCSI, but it seems
that wrote boot files to HDD instead of iSCSI, so after install
sanboot writes something like "cannot boot from this drive", but
booting from HDD starts and fails telling that there are no some
windows files (those are on iSCSI).
Then I've tried to make partion on iSCSI as active and got what was sent
on the first email.
Might be I'm just doing something wrong...
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