[ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support

Fri Mar 18 20:07:43 UTC 2011

Hello Trevor, Shao,

Regarding this:

> 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.

There's a setup log buried deep in the "Panther" folder on the RAM
drive WinPE uses that will contain diagnostic info, but I found out
(after days of pulling my hair out!) that this is [usually] an issue
with resolving ARC paths to NT Device names.  All of my info/research
is in a technet thread where I mostly talked to myself.... but it may
be of use to you if you want to go in-depth on this problem:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproinstall/thread/cea6177e-9cb2-420e-bbc0-0cac487e51e2

The very sad news though is that it seems like *every* BIOS behaves
differently on this :(

Cheers,
Andrew Bobulsky

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Trevor Dodds <trevordodds at rogers.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> ________________________________
>
> From:ipxe-devel-bounces at lists.ipxe.org
> [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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