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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body vlink="purple" link="blue" lang="EN-US"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hello again Matt,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m glad you were able to get past the one hurdle, though it’s unfortunate you got stopped by another :-/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I <i>seem</i> to recall that there’s something about a failed boot-type command that halts script execution and fails back out to the BIOS boot order. There <i>is</i> a patch for this though, and I’ve used it, it does work well! …but I can’t remember for the life of me how to apply patches from git. One of those things that I re-figure out every time I use it. I’ve got a compiled binary of it somewhere… it’d take some searching though.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The relevant patch is here: </span><a href="http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/sha0/gpxe.git;a=commitdiff;h=79bcbbe5">http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/sha0/gpxe.git;a=commitdiff;h=79bcbbe5</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And the thread that it was introduced in is here: </span><a href="http://etherboot.org/pipermail/gpxe-devel/2010-March/000078.html">http://etherboot.org/pipermail/gpxe-devel/2010-March/000078.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">That patch will, of course, allow you to do what you’re attempting to accomplish.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Andrew Bobulsky<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">[CC’ed to the mailing list and to Shao, because it’s his patch ;)]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Matthew Helton [mailto:mwhelton@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 16, 2010 12:52 PM<br><b>To:</b> Andrew Bobulsky<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [gPXE] Unable to get past iSCSI drive message for SAN Installation...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Andrew,<br><br> I did precisely those steps last night which you have described in detail above... and received a different error:<br> <o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt" class="MsoNormal">Non-System disk or disk error<br>replace and strike any key when ready<br>_<br><br>It will not continue on to the chain tftp:// command after the sanboot command - not good.<br><br>Curiously, it will not attempt to boot from a USB Stick connected to it (even though it is next in the boot order), but will boot from the DVD-ROM (which is te device after that). Problem solved - sort of. The not being able to use the USB stick is a disappointment, and I suspect it is related to the BIOS of the particular system in question. The system will boot from the USB stick normally if I don't use gPXE. Oh well. <br><br>Ao it appears I do have a working solution... that is the important thing. I don't have the solution I was [i]looking[/i] for, but overall, it does meet the criteria. <br><br><br>Best,<br><br>Matt<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>