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| ====== Adding AoE boot support to Microsoft Windows ====== | ====== Adding AoE boot support to Microsoft Windows ====== | ||
| - | **The AoE initiator for Microsoft Windows is not yet on general availability; please check back in a few days for further information.** | + | ===== Installing the AoE initiator ===== |
| - | You are now ready to: | + | You need to download and install the Windows AoE initiator (WinAoE). Download the latest WinAoE package from [[http://winaoe.org/]] and extract the contents of the .zip file to a temporary directory. |
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| + | Start up the Add Hardware Wizard (//Start// -> //Control Panel// -> //Add Hardware//) and proceed to the "Is the hardware connected?" screen: | ||
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| + | Click on "Yes, I have already connected the hardware", then click on //Next//. | ||
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| + | Scroll down to the bottom of the list and choose "Add a new hardware device", then click on //Next//. | ||
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| + | Click on "Install the hardware that I manually select from a list (Advanced)", then click on //Next//. | ||
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| + | Choose "SCSI and RAID controllers", then click on //Next//. | ||
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| + | Click on "Have Disk...". | ||
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| + | Click on "Browse...". Browse to the directory containing the extracted WinAoE files, then to the //bin// directory within this directory. Click on "OK". You should see "AoE Driver" show up in a list of available drivers to install: | ||
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| + | Continue clicking on //Next// until the installation process is complete. You will see a warning about the driver being unsigned: | ||
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| + | Ignore this warning and click on "Continue Anyway" to complete the installation of the AoE initiator. | ||
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| + | ===== Identifying the network service name ===== | ||
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| + | Open up the System Properties (//Start// -> //Control Panel// -> //System//) and go to the //Hardware// tab. Click on "Device Manager". | ||
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| + | Locate your network card within the device list. Right-click on your network card and choose "Properties". | ||
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| + | Go to the //Details// tab and choose "Service" from the drop-down menu. Make a note of the network card service name ("E1000" in the above example). | ||
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| + | ===== Enabling network boot ===== | ||
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| + | Start up Registry Editor (//Start// -> //Run// -> //regedit//) and browse to the key //HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services//. | ||
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| + | Click on the network card service key ("E1000" in this example), then double-click on "Start" in the right-hand panel. | ||
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| + | Change the //Value data// to 0 and click on //OK//. | ||
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| + | * NOTE: If you are using a Nvidia network card, you may have to use the RIS drivers or set the "Start" to 0 for the nvnetbus service as well. | ||
| + | * NOTE: It is reported that using the Nvidia nForce drivers (service names NVENETFD and nvnetbus) does not work with WinAoE booting. See [[/hardwareissues#nvidia_nforce]] | ||
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| + | You are now ready to | ||
| * [[sanboot:transfer|Transfer the Microsoft Windows disk image to your AoE target]] | * [[sanboot:transfer|Transfer the Microsoft Windows disk image to your AoE target]] | ||
