[ipxe-devel] Win 2008r2 - sanboot image and install to iSCSI

[Michael Brown]

On Tuesday 31 Jul 2012 23:33:01 Marek Salwerowicz wrote:
> set keep-san 1
> sanhook --drive 0x81
> iscsi:192.168.65.135::::iqn.2012--06.freenas.local:win2k8disk (works -
> registers the drive under 0x81)
> sanboot --no-describe http://ip/win2k8.iso
> 
> The installer boots fine (but it takes about 2 times more than booting
> installer without any targets registered), the iSCSI target is
> discovered, but I get the information that:
> 
> "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. 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"

Try hooking the target disk as the default drive (0x80) and using --drive 0x81 
for win2k8.iso, i.e.:

  sanhook iscsi:192.168.65.135::::iqn.2012--06.freenas.local:win2k8disk
  sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x81 http://ip/win2k8.iso

[ By the way, there's no need to use "set keep-san 1" when you're SAN-booting 
the ISO directly; "keep-san" is only needed if you're going to exit out of 
iPXE back to the BIOS in order to boot from a physical CD. ]

Michael