[gPXE] sanboot not supported

[erin.coffey at tektronix.com]

Hi all:

I've been tasked with demonstrating boot over LAN and I've been following several of your discussions to try and figure out how to make this work. I need to boot a windows 7 thin client over LAN. I tried to follow the "how to boot from san" thread here: http://etherboot.org/wiki/howtos

My set up for this demonstration is very simple:

My dhcp server is running on Mint Linux 8 'Helena' and I have directly connected the windows box to the Linux box via Ethernet cable; no internet connection, just a private network. So far, so good. The W7 machine gets its ip address from the dhcp server and either box can successfully ping the other.

When I remove the w7 HD and boot to the gpxe environment (e1000e-only.iso) the initiator recognizes the network (net0) and 'dhcp net0' returns the correct mac address and I see the 'ok' message.

The problem I'm having is that my sanboot cmd is failing. I try 'sanboot iscsi:192.168.1.100::::iqn.2007-08.100.1.168.192:iscsiboot' but, I get this message:
 "Could not boot from iscsi:192.168.1.100::::iqn.2007-08.100.1.168.192:iscsiboot: Not supported (0x3c03e003)"

I'm not sure if my sanboot syntax is wrong or if I have neglected to configure the server settings appropriately? I'm new to network administration tasks so it's likely that I mis configured something or forgot something else entirely.

Can you take a look at my .conf files below and tell me where I went wrong?

Thank you very much,

Erin



This is all I have in my ietd.conf file:, everything else is commented out:

Target iqn.2007-08.100.1.168.192:iscsiboot
                Lun 0 Path=/home/erincof/DPO70804B_LANBO.img, Typef=fileio



This is what I have in my dhcpd.conf file:

allow booting;
allow bootp;
DHCPDARGS=eth0
ddns-update-style none;
authoritative;
option domain-name "Lanbo.org";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.100;
INTERFACES="eth0 eth1";
option space gpxe;
option gpxe-encap-opts code 175 = encapsulate gpxe;
option gpxe.keep-san code 8 = unsigned integer 8;
filename "";

host lanbo-server {
                hardware Ethernet 00:06:5b:84:53:86;
                fixed-address 192.168.1.100;
}

option root-path "iscsi:192.168.1.100::::iqn.2007-08.100.1.168.192:iscsiboot";

subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
                range 192.168.1.201 192.168.1.220;
                default-lease-time 86400;
                max-lease-time 86400;
                option routers 192.168.1.1;
                option ip-forwarding off;
                option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
                option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
                option ntp-servers 192.168.1.100;
                option netbios-name-servers 192.168.1.100;
                host lanbo-client {
                                hardware Ethernet 00:d0:c9:ab:ae:6c;
                                fixed-address 192.168.1.202;
                }
}



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