[ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support

[Trevor Dodds]

Yes there is a disk in the blade. Windows detects the local internal disk and 
the isci disk. Just that the iscsi is not bootable.



----- Original Message ----
From: "Miller, Shao" <shao.miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
To: Trevor Dodds <trevordodds at rogers.com>
Cc: ipxe-devel at ipxe.org
Sent: Fri, March 18, 2011 11:35:33 AM
Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support

Good day, Trevor.

Did you read this section?:


http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/win2k8_iscsi_install#what_to_do_if
_the_installation_saysensure_that_the_disk_s_controller_is_enabled_in_th
e_computer_s_bios_menu

- Shao Miller

-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Dodds [mailto:trevordodds at rogers.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 11:32
To: Trevor Dodds; Miller, Shao
Cc: ipxe-devel at ipxe.org
Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support

I tried booting the torito image, that allows me to boot from cdrom
however when 
loading windows and trying to install to the iscsi lun I get the error
message 
that "windows cannot be installed to this disk, This computers hardware
may not 
support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is
enabled in 
the computer's BIOS menu. It detects my internal disk fine though.

When the iscsi target it connected with sanboot it displays that its
recognized 
as 0x80 




----- Original Message ----
From: Trevor Dodds <trevordodds at rogers.com>
To: "Miller, Shao" <shao.miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
Cc: ipxe-devel at ipxe.org
Sent: Thu, March 17, 2011 1:38:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support

I tried:

dhcp net0
set keep-san 1
sanboot iscsi:192.168.1.11::::iqn.2007-08.name.dns.target.my:iscsiboot
exit


I'll try the memdisk and sbootmgr option.



----- Original Message ----
From: "Miller, Shao" <shao.miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
To: Trevor Dodds <trevordodds at rogers.com>
Cc: ipxe-devel at ipxe.org
Sent: Thu, March 17, 2011 1:23:49 PM
Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support

Ok.  Did you read and try this section?:


http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/win2k8_iscsi_install#alternative_m
ethod_simple

- Shao Miller

-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Dodds [mailto:trevordodds at rogers.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:21
To: Miller, Shao
Cc: ipxe-devel at ipxe.org
Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support

I was following the guide at 
http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/win2k8_iscsi_install, I'm trying
to 
install to an iscsi target SAN disk.
gPXE would "fall back" to boot the cdrom and windows would see the iscsi
target 
during install but it would not be bootable. iPXE doesn't seem to "fall
back" as 
it just hangs at either "Trying to boot CDRom" or mostly it would just
hang at 
"No more network devices"


----- Original Message ----
From: "Miller, Shao" <shao.miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
To: Trevor Dodds <trevordodds at rogers.com>
Cc: ipxe-devel at ipxe.org
Sent: Thu, March 17, 2011 12:14:14 PM
Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support

I'm afraid that my recollection is that neither gPXE nor iPXE boots
local CD-/DVD-ROMs.  Perhaps you are referring to "falling back" to a
BIOS CD-/DVD-ROM boot by exiting iPXE/gPXE?  Are you following a guide
somewhere?  Are you trying to install Windows Server 2008 to a SAN disk?
There were some recent iPXE changes which might be relevant here.  -
Shao

-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Dodds [mailto:trevordodds at rogers.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:12
To: Miller, Shao
Cc: ipxe-devel at ipxe.org
Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support


Hi Shao 

I have the 2008 image in the cdrom, my boot order is 1st PXE then CDROM.
gPXE 
would boot the cd fine, it's just iPXE that seems to stick. 



________________________________
From: "Miller, Shao" <shao.miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
To: Trevor Dodds <trevordodds at rogers.com>
Cc: ipxe-devel at ipxe.org
Sent: Thu, March 17, 2011 11:57:08 AM
Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support

  
Good day, Trevor.

Exactly how are you booting the CD-ROM via iPXE?  SAN?  MEMDISK?  Doing
this is 
actually a bit tricky, so I'm not sure what method you're using.

- Shao Miller

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[mailto:ipxe-devel-bounces at lists.ipxe.org] On Behalf Of Trevor Dodds
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:57
To: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
Subject: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support

I've been testing both gPXE (1.01) and latest iPXE on HP Blade servers
both 
using undionly.kpxe.

With gPXE I'm able to attach to the target and begin a windows 2008 R2
install 
from CD Rom, however windows can not make the device bootable. I decided
to try 
with iPXE to see if windows would view the target as a bootable device
it 
attaches the target fine but it will not boot from the cdrom to start
the 
install, it just hangs with "Trying to boot CDRom", sometimes it would
just hang 

at "No more network devices"

Thanks
Trevor 
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