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iscsi with gpxe (windows 7) - not booting
Hi Folks, I have a PC I would like to be diskless. I have created an iscsi target in my readynas-pro. I can connect it from windows 7. The next step is to use gpxe and boot up, connect it, and i...
Sorry to dig up an "old" thread, but I came across it while googling and figured it might help others. This is 100% possible, but will take an investment (a few hours) Assuming you can get your NIC working, here are the steps you must take:
0. Start out with a blank iSCSI target
1. Create PXE bootable Windows PE (follow these instructions to a T http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722358%28WS.10%29.aspx)
2. Share those files out via TFTP
3. Boot GPXE and do the following:
Ctrl-B into command line
dhcp net0
set keep-san 1
sanboot iscsi:192.168.1.11::::iqn.2007-08.name.dns.target.my:iscsiboot
chain tftp://192.168.1.11/boot/pxeboot.n12
Now if you've done everything right so far, Windows PE will be loading.
4. Map shared folder where Windows installation files are: "net use s: \\server\cdrom" or whatever
5. Run s:\setup.exe
6. Thank me - this took me a few hours to put all of the pieces together!
Note, you MUST use Windows PE to do the installation. This wasn't the case for everything before (Vista, XP etc.) If you try to skip the PE step and straight boot to Windows 7 setup you'll see the iscsi drive as an installation option but it errors out. I lost many hours to that problem!
0. Start out with a blank iSCSI target
1. Create PXE bootable Windows PE (follow these instructions to a T http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722358%28WS.10%29.aspx)
2. Share those files out via TFTP
3. Boot GPXE and do the following:
Ctrl-B into command line
dhcp net0
set keep-san 1
sanboot iscsi:192.168.1.11::::iqn.2007-08.name.dns.target.my:iscsiboot
chain tftp://192.168.1.11/boot/pxeboot.n12
Now if you've done everything right so far, Windows PE will be loading.
4. Map shared folder where Windows installation files are: "net use s: \\server\cdrom" or whatever
5. Run s:\setup.exe
6. Thank me - this took me a few hours to put all of the pieces together!
Note, you MUST use Windows PE to do the installation. This wasn't the case for everything before (Vista, XP etc.) If you try to skip the PE step and straight boot to Windows 7 setup you'll see the iscsi drive as an installation option but it errors out. I lost many hours to that problem!
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