[ipxe-devel] Weird issue booting to x64 WinPE 3.0 or 4.0 after mounting iSCSI disc

[Steve Cross]

Well what do you know, I dropped in a PCI-e gigabit card, used a usb drive
to boot iPXE and it's installing. Now I just have to wait for it to install
which is going to take forever since it's sending all traffic through my
router (since I'm not chainloading through DHCP, I can't specify the direct
address of the iSCSI server and my router only has a 100mbit card... so,
it's gonna take a while. Here's to hoping that once it's installed, I'll be
able to swap back to the onboard card and boot using it. I guess we will
find out. Thanks for the tip!

And to prevent this in the future, I just ordered a pair of 1gb PCI cards
for my router so that if I get stuck with something like this in the
future, my speed won't be cut by 10x :D

*Steve Cross*
hairlesshobo at stevecross.org


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Steve Cross <hairlesshobo at stevecross.org>wrote:

> I can TRY. All I have is pci and pci-e expansion cards, which unforunately
> do not support PXE natively so I will have to use a USB jump drive. I will
> give it a shot though and see what happens and report back. Thanks for the
> tip.
>
> *Steve Cross*
> hairlesshobo at stevecross.org
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:09 PM, shouldbe q931 <shouldbeq931 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Steve Cross <hairlesshobo at stevecross.org>
>> wrote:
>> > This was a fresh iSCSI disc that was setup specifically for this
>> client. I
>> > have tried removing it and re-adding it multiple times. I have tried
>> booting
>> > with a blank iSCSI disk, I have tried mounting it to a running windows
>> > system and initializing the disk, I have tried duplicating an existing
>> disk
>> > (totally different hardware in the client machine) and using that disk
>> to
>> > install to, and nothing has helped.
>> >
>> > Steve Cross
>> > hairlesshobo at stevecross.org
>> >
>>
>> The only other thing I can think of is a bad NIC driver.
>>
>> Can you try a different known good with iPXE NIC in the computer to
>> isolate the existing NIC ?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Arne
>>
>
>
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