[ipxe-devel] WinPE 3.0, boot with iSCSI target

Marek Salwerowicz marek_sal at wp.pl
Wed Mar 14 11:14:50 UTC 2012


Hi,

W dniu 2012-03-14 01:09, Slawomir Latkowski pisze:
> Hi Marek,
>
> I don't think it will boot from iSCSI target.
> The tutorial you were following says about (...I have dedicated my
> time to figuring out a way to mount iSCSI targets under our custom
> WinPE v3.0 (Windows 7 Based) environment...) but not to boot from
> iSCSI target.
As far as I know, sanboot allows to boot the Live-CD image (like my 
WinPE ISO).
What's more, when I do not set iSCSI Target ( sanhook....) and ONLY boot 
Live-CD, everything works.


-- 
Regards,
Marek Salwerowicz

>
> Maybe I miss a point...
>
> Regards,
> Slawek
>
> W dniu 13 marca 2012 23:51 użytkownik Marek Salwerowicz
> <marek_sal at wp.pl>  napisał:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I have a problem with trying to boot WinPE 3.0 (prepared according to:
>> http://www.gregorystrike.com/2010/01/08/winpe-v3-0-and-microsoft-iscsi-initiator/).
>> I've prepared it under Win7 Pro.
>>
>> I have downladed from git repository current tree, prepared the ISO image of
>> iPXE (under Debian Squeeze)
>>
>> I have set up the iSCSI target under FreeNAS
>>
>> After booting my machine from iPXE ISO image i type following commands:
>>
>> dhcp
>> set keep-san 1
>> sanhook --drive 0x80 --no-describe
>> iscsi:192.168.146.132::::iqn.2012-01.local:win7disk
>> sanboot --drive 0x81 --no-describe http://10.0.0.1/path.to.WinPE.iso
>>
>> WinPE stops during boot and displays following message:
>>
>> File: \Boot\BCD
>> Status: 0xc000000e
>> Info: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration
>> data.
>>
>> When I do not attach iSCSI target and only boot the WinPE iso file,
>> everything is OK, but (of course) I can't install Windows under my iSCSI
>> target.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong?
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Marek Salwerowicz
>>
>>
>>
>>
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