[gPXE] Only register bios drive without booting

[Andrew Bobulsky]

Andrey,

One last thing, cause I ran into this issue with a system that had two local
disks.  When Win7 was installed to the machine, it put both the MBR and the
BCD for the system on the "secondary" drive, which could be the case with
your IDE disk you connected to facilitate your SAN installation.

Check if the \BOOT\BCD file is present on the SAN disk.  If it is, then the
startup repair will probably go off without a hitch.  If it's not, you can
either create a "skeleton" BCD datastore using bcdedit or EasyBCD from a
working Vista/7 system, or you can export the BCD from the IDE disk and then
import it onto your SAN disk.

A bit of a pain, I admit, but it's very easy to get bitten by Windows' love
of assuming every hard disk in the system is its personal slave :P

Best of luck,
Andrew Bobulsky

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Andrey Kuzmin <maillists at egodot.net>wrote:

> 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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