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

[Andrew Bobulsky]

Aldrich,

While I read that and though it might be a clever solution, the string that you pass to the sanboot command includes the LUN you want to connect the int13 device to, which defaults to LUN 0.

So, if you were to put an iSCSI HDD on LUN 0 and an iSCSI ODD on LUN 1, you'd still need to specify a second iSCSI connection :-(

By the way, is your target OS here XP/2003 setup?

-Andrew Bobulsky

On May 24, 2010, at 10:15 PM, KernSafe Technology wrote:

> 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 A! ndrew 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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