Hello Trevor, Shao, Regarding this:
> 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. There's a setup log buried deep in the "Panther" folder on the RAM drive WinPE uses that will contain diagnostic info, but I found out (after days of pulling my hair out!) that this is [usually] an issue with resolving ARC paths to NT Device names. All of my info/research is in a technet thread where I mostly talked to myself.... but it may be of use to you if you want to go in-depth on this problem: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproinstall/thread/cea6177e-9cb2-420e-bbc0-0cac487e51e2 The very sad news though is that it seems like *every* BIOS behaves differently on this :( Cheers, Andrew Bobulsky On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Trevor Dodds <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
