So normally I'd do a typical PXE boot of WinPE to install to a new san, but in this case I have a little complexity that prevents that at the moment.<br><br>So I used tgtd to give me two luns, a blank drive as lun 1 and a windows install ISO as lun 2.<br>
<br>I tried hooking it as 0x80 for the hard drive and 0x81 for the optical drive. sanboot --drive 0x81 goes blank and reboots shortly.<br><br>Then I swapped and hooked 0x80 as the optical and 0x81 as the hard drive. Installer started, Windows presented the blank disk I had provided, but Windows then refuses to install to the disk saying 'ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu'. I assume it's somehow unhappy with the state of what it determined through EDD, but Windows is fairly unhelpful in this regard.<br>
<br>So two questions, has anyone tried windows install to 0x81 iscsi drive by ipxe? Alternatively, why wasn't I able to boot the iso if I hooked it to 0x81 instead of 0x80?<br>