<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Forgot to CC the mailing list :)<div><br></div><div>Also, the Etherboot-discuss list has been deprecated (?), you'll want to continue this on <a href="mailto:gpxe@etherboot.org">gpxe@etherboot.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>-Andrew Bobulsky<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Andrew Bobulsky <<a href="mailto:RulerOf@gmail.com">RulerOf@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 19, 2010 10:25:34 AM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Bernhard Steiner" <<a href="mailto:bernhard.steiner@eepd.de">bernhard.steiner@eepd.de</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [Etherboot-discuss] Network-Install Windows 7 to iSCSI target</b><br></span></div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bernhard,<div><br></div><div>I've actually done this before, but the process was more than cumbersome... it was a bit of a nightmare.</div><div><br></div><div>Basically, you want gPXE to pull its DHCP request, attempt to boot from SAN, and then of course fall back to gPXE. After that, you'll want to do something like "chain boot\pxeboot.n12" from the gPXE CLI or a gPXE script. </div><div><br></div><div>Even then, though, I had problems with Windows Setup that required me to bust open the wim file and edit a few things, then start setup.exe by hand from the PE's command prompt.</div><div><br></div><div>It's a bit of a pain, and I honestly can't remember specifically what I did to make it work right, but I'll try to give you some help along the way if you're willing to stumble along ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I was chainloading undionly.pxe from the built in pxe. I think the key here for you is likely loading WinPE from the gPXE CLI, rather than jumping back out to SYSLINUX.</div><div><br></div><div>Best of luck to you.</div><div><br></div><div>-Andrew Bobulsky</div><div><br><div><div>On May 19, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Bernhard Steiner wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Hi gPXE fellas;<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">I hope its okay writing to you gPXE guys, knowing that I use gPXE out of the SYSLINUX package. <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">I'm successfully using the SYSLINUX version of gPXE, called 'gpxelinux.0', to boot Windows from iSCSI. Right now, I install Windows to a hard drive first, and then I use 'dd' to move the image of the HD to my iSCSI target. But I like to go a step further…<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">I'd like to boot from network, connect to a iSCSI target, and then start the installation of the OS from network, too.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">What I'm doing at the moment…<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">1) Boot server hands 'gpxelinux.0' (chain-loading pxelinux after gpxe) to my PXE clients<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">2) In my PXELINUX (using sanboot.c32 module of SYSLINUX) menu I select an empty iSCSI target<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">3) I get a "SAN boot failed" message, because the iSCSI target I'm trying to boot is empty.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">4) Then I fall back to my PXELINUX menu, and now I select the entry to start WDS (Windows Deployment Services)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">5) But when Windows 7 Setup asks for an installation destination, there are no hard drives…<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">I already tried to set the "KEEP-SAN" option (175 gPXE_options: 08 01 01 FF) in my MS-DHCP server, but without any positive change.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">My question to you guys is:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Is it possible to use gPXE to mount an empty iSCSI disk and then proceed with installing an OS (e.g. Linux, Windows, …) from network?<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Bernhard<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Etherboot-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Etherboot-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; 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