installing windows to iscsi

[kiwa]

Hi, sorry for my English.

I am trying to install windows (7 or 8) to an iscsi target, i can see the disk on the installer. Even i installed successfully Windows XP on another iscsi target (folowing this: http://chee-yang.blogspot.com/2012/04/in...arget.html ).

Windows PE recognizes the disc, i can do partitions, but really slow, when i get in the step of "copying windows files" after a while just fails with

"Windows could not format a partition on disk 1. The error occurred while preparing the partition selected for installation. Error Code 0x80070057"

I get the exact same message on windows 7 or windows 8.

my ipxe configuration is:

Quote:sanhook iscsi:192.168.32.4:::0:iqn.2013-03.net.stuff:win7
chain tftp://192.168.32.4/pxelinux.0

the last line is for chainloading a ERPXE menu and then windows PE 3.0 or 4.0.

[robinsmidsrod]

It _could_ be that your pxelinux.0/ERPXE setup does something strange. I would advise trying to replace that last line (chain) with the method specified in http://ipxe.org/howto/winpe to get the installer started.

The slowness you're encountering might be related to a default gateway that is very slow. Setting set netX/gateway 0.0.0.0 before your sanhook might help with that issue.