Hi,<br><br>I have both PC and Dell notebook in my LAN environment. Both PC and Dell notebook supports PXE boot.<br><br>I attempt to chain boot into Windows PE with SanBoot iscsi target:<br><br>1. DHCP<div>2. undionly.kpxe<div>
3. Press Ctrl-B to iPXE command line</div><div>4. set keep-san 1 </div><div>5. set skip-san-boot 1</div><div>6. sanboot iscsi-target</div><div>7. chain tftp://<a href="http://192.168.0.1/windows.pe/pxeboot.0">192.168.0.1/windows.pe/pxeboot.0</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Boot PC using above steps does boot into Windows PE environment with iscsi target available for Windows setup.</div><div><br></div><div>However, Dell notebook using same steps boot the Windows PE too, but it doesn't show the GUI screen as what PC does. I have tried 2 dell notebook and both giving same result. My Windows PE image will show a cmd windows after loading the Windows PE. The dell notebook doesn't show anything and screen just blank. I try to type exit and press enter, the notebook will reboot. I feel it did boot into Windows PE but doesn't show the GUI screen.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I then try another steps using PXE Linux:</div><div><br>1. DHCP<div>2. pxelinux.0</div><div>3. show menu "pxelinux.cfg/default"</div><div>4. kernel <a href="http://windows.pe/pxeboot.0">windows.pe/pxeboot.0</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Both PC and Dell notebooks boot into Windows PE GUI environment and I can see the GUI screen for notebook as well. </div><div><br></div><div>Both scenarios using same WinPE image. </div><div><br></div>
<div>What could cause the notebook using iPXE to chain load WinPE shows blank after booting?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Chau Chee Yang<br><br></div></div>