[ipxe-devel] [gPXE] Problems with iscsi boot

[Michael Brown]

On Monday 10 Oct 2011 15:08:27 Marcus Schwarz wrote:
> I'm using boot from san with gpxe for about 2 years now.
> 
> Now I wanted to setup a little Media PC with Windows 7 and boot from san
> but that's just not working.
> 
> Hardware :
> Asus E35M1-I Deluxe
> 2 GB RAM
> Onboard NIC
> 
> I created a USB Stick to boot gpxe from, configured my DHCP server the
> same way I did for my workstation and created a iscsi target for that
> computer.
> 
> All seems to work fine. "Preserving connection to SAN" was shown and I
> thought "great, it just works" but the disk didn't show up in the
> Windows installer.

Please try upgrading to iPXE (http://ipxe.org).

You may also find some relevant troubleshooting hints at

  http://ipxe.org/howto/wds_iscsi#troubleshooting

Michael