[ipxe-devel] VMWare E1000 (8086:100f) iBFT?

[Marek Salwerowicz]

Hi all,

I am wondering if driver for regular VMWare (workstation 8) NIC (as far 
as I know it is Intel E1000) has support for registering the iSCSI 
target (connected via that NIC) in iBFT?
I am still working on enabling Windows 7 (x86) installation on iSCSI target.

I am able to 'sanhook' my iSCSI target and 'sanboot' the ISO file with 
WinPE 3.0

DISKPART tool in WinPE also recognizes the target as drive, I can format 
it etc.

Windows 7 installer also recognizes the drive, but does not allow me to 
install on it  (it's not stored in BIOS etc...)
After browsing thread at reboot.pro :

http://reboot.pro/15965/

I think that the problem is because the NIC driver in iPXE doesn't have support for iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT), so the iSCSI target is not registered in iBFT, so that can't be used as destination for installing Windows 7

Am I right?

Regards,
Marek