[ipxe-devel] iPXE iSCSI AWS Gateway Storage Boot

Michael Brown mcb30 at ipxe.org
Thu Jan 9 11:12:29 UTC 2020


On 29/12/2019 20:51, Brandon Stradling wrote:
> I'm running a Hyper-V server, and have configured a local 
> aws-storage-gateway to run on it.  I've detached a working Windows OS 
> .vhdx (virtual disk) from my virtual machine and attached it to my 
> storage gateway.  AWS has now given me an iSCSI target name to connect to.
> 
> What I want to do is create a customized iPXE iso to automatically boot 
> this iSCSI target of Windows that I've created.  Is this possible?  Can 
> you provide any guidance on how to do so?

You can either configure your DHCP server to hand out the appropriate 
iSCSI root-path option (see RFC 4173), or use an embedded script:

   https://ipxe.org/embed

to embed a script containing the "sanboot" command:

   https://ipxe.org/cmd/sanboot

Michael



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