[ipxe-devel] wimboot installs not working if doing PXE boot through IPMI commands

[shouldbe q931]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Floris Bos <bos at je-eigen-domein.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> We normally tell servers to initiate a PXE network boot through IPMI
> commands, among the lines of:
>
>
> ipmitool -I lanplus -H 1.2.3.4 -U ipmiuser -P password bootdev pxe
> ipmitool -I lanplus -H 1.2.3.4 -U ipmiuser -P password power cycle
>
>
> Works well for starting Linux installations, however if we do this with
> wimboot Windows fails to install.
>
> Gives a "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an
> existing system partition" error message in Windows setup.
>
> While installation does go fine if not sending the "bootdev pxe" command,
> but manually selecting boot device from BIOS boot menu.
>
>
> Like Windows setup has problems detecting what is the first hard drive when
> we meddled with the boot order through IPMI, or something like that.
>
> Any solution to this?
>

Have you tried a wimboot boot of WinPE of the OS version that is
failing the install and seeing if it can see drives/partitions ?

Cheers