[gPXE] install win 7 to SAN - boot fail

[Andrew Bobulsky]

Hello Bin,

 

This issue happens with many BIOSes out there.  Basically (and I don't
completely understand it myself) it considers gPXE's handing back of the
boot process to be a failure and just wants you to reboot. which can be
aggravating :-P

 

Anyway, you basically need to attempt a (failed) sanboot as you have here,
but after that you need to load the next step in the process (Windows PE) in
the context of what gPXE can launch.  Several methods are covered here:
http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/win2k8_iscsi_install#alternative_method_us
ing_winpe

 

If you can load WinPE from the network, that would be the simplest method
(but not the easiest, in my experience), but the PXELINUX method mentioned
below that would probably give you the least headache as far as installation
goes.

 

Either way, best of luck to you.

 

Regards,

Andrew Bobulsky

 

From: gpxe-bounces at etherboot.org [mailto:gpxe-bounces at etherboot.org] On
Behalf Of Bin
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 10:15 AM
To: gpxe at etherboot.org
Subject: [gPXE] install win 7 to SAN - boot fail

 

I think someone had the same issue in July but I can't find any solutions so
far. I have two mahines with the same issue. One is nvidia Nforce 730i
Motherboard (and Nvidia NIC/BootAgent), the other is realtek NIC. I am using
UNDI only 1.0.1. The chain loading works fine and gpxe got all the
infomation. Howerver, the computer refused to boot from next source(CDROM).
Instead I only got the option of "PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT". Here is one sample
output.
 
DHCP (net XX:XX:XX:XX:XX) ... ok
Registered as BIOS drive 0x00
Booting from BIOS drive 0x00
Boot falied
Preserving connection to SAN DISK
Could not boot from iscsi:192.168.x.x::::pc01 Operation cancelled 0xb08080a0

PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT

Thanks,

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