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

[KernSafe Technology]

Hi Shao Miller,

 

If it is reachable (modify int13), we can input a hard disk and a CD-ROM into one Target (multiple-LUN), so the workstation will get two SCSI devices from iBFT.


 
> Subject: RE: [gPXE] Will gPXE support booting from iscsi cd-rom?
> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:13:55 -0400
> From: Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca
> To: kernsafe at hotmail.com
> CC: gpxe at etherboot.org
> 
> Good day Aldrich,
> 
> Since there's no relationship between BIOS INT 13h drive numbers and
> drives that Windows finds, how do you propose to pass a virtual optical
> disc drive (ODD) to Windows?
> 
> For the HDD case, we already pass an iBFT (for iSCSI) or an aBFT (for
> AoE). I would suggest that you either need additional data associated
> with those tables to specify ODD as the drive-type, or your initiator
> could probe the SAN and look for El Torito ISO9660 structure in order to
> dynamically determine that the SAN is an ODD.
> 
> In regards to loading all of this during setup: For Windows XP/2003
> you'll likely run into some challenges, as Andrew mentioned. Have you
> already found a way to use your F6-extra-drivers-floppy-disk to load
> networking for the network card along with your initiator?
> 
> - Shao Miller
 		 	   		  
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