[ipxe-devel] idea: partitioning? [was Re: Win 2008r2 - sanboot image and install to iSCSI]

[Oliver Rath]

Hi Marek,

the prinzipal problem is, that you can boot via iscsi only from 0x80,
the only slot, which will be saved in the ibft for later use by the
booted system. Then, if you boot a dvd from a 0x80-drive, the you have
to install it to 0x80 also, so you need to "change" the data in this
drive to your new C: device.

Maybe, if you create a iscsi-disk with two partitions, first will have
the win8-dvd in it, second is free for install, so, if you can boot from
it via a kind of boot-manager (i.e. grub?), you have a bootable
iscsi-device youve bootet from and can install to. ;-)

I dont know, if this works, so Im interested to the result :-)

Regards,
Oliver