[gPXE] Only register bios drive without booting

Andrey Kuzmin maillists at egodot.net
Tue Mar 23 11:13:33 EDT 2010


Ok,  thanks,  I'll  try this and MBR zero'ing with Windows repair too.
Will report a bit later :)


> Andrey,

> In regards to your attempts to SAN-boot an HDD which had Windows 7
> installed on it while there were two disks attached to the system:

> Windows most likely boot the booting system on whichever HDD it deemed
> as the "first" HDD, even if it installed Windows 7 to your "second" HDD.

> The simplest thing to do is
> - to have one HDD in the computer system
> - installed Windows 7 to it
> - make sure networking is fully functional
> - make sure an iSCSI test succeeds to validate your iSCSI target setup
> - remove the HDD and either attach it to your iSCSI target system or
> take a raw HDD image and serve that from the iSCSI target system

> - Shao Miller




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