On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Floris Bos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > We normally tell servers to initiate a PXE network boot through IPMI > commands, among the lines of: > > > ipmitool -I lanplus -H 1.2.3.4 -U ipmiuser -P password bootdev pxe > ipmitool -I lanplus -H 1.2.3.4 -U ipmiuser -P password power cycle > > > Works well for starting Linux installations, however if we do this with > wimboot Windows fails to install. > > Gives a "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an > existing system partition" error message in Windows setup. > > While installation does go fine if not sending the "bootdev pxe" command, > but manually selecting boot device from BIOS boot menu. > > > Like Windows setup has problems detecting what is the first hard drive when > we meddled with the boot order through IPMI, or something like that. > > Any solution to this? >
Have you tried a wimboot boot of WinPE of the OS version that is failing the install and seeing if it can see drives/partitions ? Cheers _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
