[ipxe-devel] Boot Issue

[Robin Smidsrød]

On 17.03.2015 15:08, Dharmendra Jyani wrote:
> Hello Sir,
> 
> I'm trying remote boot for windows using ipxe.
> I'm able to boot winpe environment through ipxe.
> After that I'm running setup.exe for windows using winpe environment
> that is stored on server.
> Setup.exe runs properly but when it comes to select the drive on which i
> want to install OS.It is unable to create the system partition for
> that.It shows error like this...We couldn't create a new partition or
> locate an existing one.For more information,see the setup log files.
> When I open the log files I got this message:-
> Info IBSLIB CanBeSystemVolume: Volume at disk [1] offset [0x6500000]
> doesn't meet criteria for system volumes...
> Info IBSLIB DiskRegionSupportsCapability:Disk [1] is BLOCKED against
> capability [CanBeSystemVolume] for the following reasons...
> Info IBSLIB LogReasons: [BLOCKING reason for disk 1: CanBeSystemVolume]
> The selected disk is not the computer's boot disk.
> 
> I tried with diskpart to create the partition
> And i also tried with changing the order of hard disk in BIOS.
> That all things doesn't work.
> 
> Is there any issue with winpe that Microsoft will not allow to install
> the windows using winpe image or is there is any other problem.

In some versions of WinPE I've encountered an issue where you have to
partition and format and then reboot and run WinPE again for it to
actually detect that your disk is bootable. Maybe this will help you
out. You also haven't specified if you're trying to install to local
disk or an iSCSI volume.

-- Robin