[ipxe-devel] Win7 install to iSCSI ?

[Robin Smidsrød]

On 01.04.2012 02:04, Oliver Rath wrote:
> In your script is a win7-installpoint, too. Were you able to realize it?
> I can boot a winpe-3.0 (with iscsi-capabilities, but ich wasnt able to
> install win7 via setup.exe command to an iscsi target. I always get the
> message
> 
> "/This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure
> that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu/"

That's where I got stuck too. I worked quite a bit on this about a year
ago, but I (temporarily) gave up when I couldn't get it to work properly.

> I sanhooked the iscsi-drive  to 0x80 and booted the WinPE-disk on 0x81:
> 
> sanhook --drive 0x80
> iscsi:192.168.172.33::::iqn.2012-03.dmi-win7direkt-liotarget || shell
> sanboot --drive 0x81 --no-describe
> iscsi:192.168.172.33::::iqn.2012-03.dmi-win7pe-liotarget || shell

That's the same as I have, except I've used HTTP for booting WinPE and I
flip the drive IDs around (PE at 0x80 and install drive at 0x81). Not
sure if that makes any difference, and if it is correct.

When I tried to emulate booting from WDS (without a WDS server) I just
got a message saying that the install process couldn't contact the WDS
server, and it wouldn't move forward from there.

It's been a while since I worked on this, so my memory is a bit hazy on
details.

You might want this little gem, if you're running tftp-hpa with the
backslash "hack" to be able to boot Windows's WDS pxeboot program:

chain tftp://${next-server}/%5CBoot%5CPXE%5Cpxeboot.n12

This is one of the MS TechNet articles that helped me along:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722358%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

If you find luck going down this route, please report back.

-- Robin