Yes there is a disk in the blade. Windows detects the local internal disk and the isci disk. Just that the iscsi is not bootable.
----- Original Message ---- From: "Miller, Shao" <[email protected]> To: Trevor Dodds <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Fri, March 18, 2011 11:35:33 AM Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support Good day, Trevor. Did you read this section?: http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/win2k8_iscsi_install#what_to_do_if _the_installation_saysensure_that_the_disk_s_controller_is_enabled_in_th e_computer_s_bios_menu - Shao Miller -----Original Message----- From: Trevor Dodds [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 11:32 To: Trevor Dodds; Miller, Shao Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support I tried booting the torito image, that allows me to boot from cdrom however when loading windows and trying to install to the iscsi lun I get the error message that "windows cannot be installed to this disk, This computers hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu. It detects my internal disk fine though. When the iscsi target it connected with sanboot it displays that its recognized as 0x80 ----- Original Message ---- From: Trevor Dodds <[email protected]> To: "Miller, Shao" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thu, March 17, 2011 1:38:54 PM Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support I tried: dhcp net0 set keep-san 1 sanboot iscsi:192.168.1.11::::iqn.2007-08.name.dns.target.my:iscsiboot exit I'll try the memdisk and sbootmgr option. ----- Original Message ---- From: "Miller, Shao" <[email protected]> To: Trevor Dodds <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thu, March 17, 2011 1:23:49 PM Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support Ok. Did you read and try this section?: http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/win2k8_iscsi_install#alternative_m ethod_simple - Shao Miller -----Original Message----- From: Trevor Dodds [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:21 To: Miller, Shao Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support I was following the guide at http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/win2k8_iscsi_install, I'm trying to install to an iscsi target SAN disk. gPXE would "fall back" to boot the cdrom and windows would see the iscsi target during install but it would not be bootable. iPXE doesn't seem to "fall back" as it just hangs at either "Trying to boot CDRom" or mostly it would just hang at "No more network devices" ----- Original Message ---- From: "Miller, Shao" <[email protected]> To: Trevor Dodds <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thu, March 17, 2011 12:14:14 PM Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support I'm afraid that my recollection is that neither gPXE nor iPXE boots local CD-/DVD-ROMs. Perhaps you are referring to "falling back" to a BIOS CD-/DVD-ROM boot by exiting iPXE/gPXE? Are you following a guide somewhere? Are you trying to install Windows Server 2008 to a SAN disk? There were some recent iPXE changes which might be relevant here. - Shao -----Original Message----- From: Trevor Dodds [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:12 To: Miller, Shao Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support Hi Shao I have the 2008 image in the cdrom, my boot order is 1st PXE then CDROM. gPXE would boot the cd fine, it's just iPXE that seems to stick. ________________________________ From: "Miller, Shao" <[email protected]> To: Trevor Dodds <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thu, March 17, 2011 11:57:08 AM Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support Good day, Trevor. Exactly how are you booting the CD-ROM via iPXE? SAN? MEMDISK? Doing this is actually a bit tricky, so I'm not sure what method you're using. - Shao Miller ________________________________ From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Trevor Dodds Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:57 To: [email protected] Subject: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support I've been testing both gPXE (1.01) and latest iPXE on HP Blade servers both using undionly.kpxe. With gPXE I'm able to attach to the target and begin a windows 2008 R2 install from CD Rom, however windows can not make the device bootable. I decided to try with iPXE to see if windows would view the target as a bootable device it attaches the target fine but it will not boot from the cdrom to start the install, it just hangs with "Trying to boot CDRom", sometimes it would just hang at "No more network devices" Thanks Trevor _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
