install Bootable windows 10 off a iSCSI on ReadyNAS

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Hi All,&nbsp;I am looking into whether I build a diskless PC with the iscsi boot drive on a the ReadyNAS.&nbsp;Are there any up-to-date step-by-step instructions? or know of a direction I can research on?Thanks

Laserbait · Answer

What HBA (Host Bus Adapter) are you planning on using? The standard NIC's on most motherboards will not do iSCSI boot. If you don't have one, you'd need something like a QLE4060 from Qloigc. It's an Enterprise adapter, so I'm not sure they have drivers that'll work for Windows 10 (but they might be built in from Microsoft).

saudade · Answer

Have a look at this.&nbsp;https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/599494/how-do-i-create-a-diskless-windows-10-pc-booting-f

tigerten · Answer

Thanks for the response.&nbsp;&nbsp;I am still learning, just don't where to start yet.&nbsp;&nbsp;I have i219 on-board NIC, and a i350-t2 card. The I350 is supposed to work.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Sandshark · Answer

Windows loves its swap file.&nbsp; If that's on an iSCSI target, things are going to get rather slow.&nbsp; But maybe you've already thought of that.

tigerten · Answer

After many hours of playing with this, I finally made some progress. I started with ReadyNAS iSCSI, i weren't able to install an OS onto it. I guess the drive was too slow and it is a RAID. I then tried on the Synology NAS just to prove I can get it to work. Here is the farthest I have it to. From here the computer would just boot into the local hard drive which is Windows OS.&nbsp;&nbsp;Intel i350-t2 does the iscs boot without issues.&nbsp;&nbsp;I am not able to install Windows onto it as the ISO installation file does not have iscsi initiator enabled and can't see the iscsi drive.&nbsp;&nbsp;I used kubuntu iso which is live environment where i can install and enable the iscsi initiator. I was able to install it onto the iscsi drive. I can see the iscsi target has two partitions, fat32 EFI and ext4 kubuntu partition.&nbsp;&nbsp;ultimately, I would like to install the windows 10. But i would first want to prove I can install something first, like Kubuntu.&nbsp;&nbsp;Any idea why the iscsi target would not boot?&nbsp;Thanks

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