[gPXE] Will gPXE support booting from iscsi cd-rom?

Miller, Shao Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca
Fri May 21 08:47:50 EDT 2010


Good day Jigang Wang,

gPXE can support booting an iSCSI HDD with GRUB4DOS installed on it.  If you put an .ISO image on a partition in that SAN, then you can:
- Use gPXE to boot to the SAN
- Use GRUB4DOS to map the .ISO as a virtual CD-ROM
- Use GRUB4DOS to boot that CD-ROM

What are you planning to boot from the CD-ROM?  If it's Linux or Windows, it will lose the CD-ROM once the kernel is running, since Linux and Windows do not use INTerrupt 0x13 for disk access.

- Shao Miller


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