[ipxe-devel] Issues installing Windows 7 to iSCSI with iPXE

[Steve Cross]

Oh, I think I got it now. Since I noticed the problem the worst during
installation, I will see if I can manage to roll it into my WinPE
images so that when the WinPE image boots, it should fire up the
sanbootconf. I'll give this a shot and see if I can do away with that
routers option line in my dhcpd.conf. Thanks for pointing this out to
me!

OK, glad to know I'm in the right place.

-Steve

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday 03 Jan 2013 15:15:53 Steve Cross wrote:
>> I didn't realize that this routing issue had already been worked
>> around in iPXE. Is this something that I have to specifically enable
>> somewhere or is it supposed to happen automagically?
>
> It's not iPXE that does it; there's no way for iPXE to construct an iBFT that
> won't trigger the erroneous behaviour in Windows.
>
> sanbootconf is the iSCSI boot configuration driver for Windows 2000/XP/2003.
> It should also work on later versions of Windows, though it isn't necessary
> since the equivalent functionality is included in Windows by default.
> However, if you do install sanbootconf then it should work around the routing
> issue.
>
>> On a side note, I just realized that this is the devel mailing list
>> and I am only a user. Please let me know if I need to unsubscribe and
>> leave everyone alone since I am not actively developing iPXE - I would
>> hate to be intruding where I should not be.
>
> No, this is the right place!
>
> Michael