MS-DOS boot from SAN

MS-DOS supports booting from either an iSCSI or AoE SAN. You cannot install directly to the SAN target; you must first install MS-DOS to a physical disk or virtual machine disk image.

Install MS-DOS as usual. Ensure that EMM386 is disabled; you can do this by editing CONFIG.SYS and changing the line

DEVICE=C:\EMM386.EXE NOEMS

to

rem DEVICE=C:\EMM386.EXE NOEMS

You are now ready to:

• Transfer the MS-DOS image to your SAN target