Pre-installed Win7 x64 boot to ramdisk via iPXE

[ArneLovius]

(2013-02-19 11:04)robinsmidsrod Wrote:  

(2013-02-18 12:55)ArneLovius Wrote:  

(2013-02-18 12:37)Robbin Wrote:  This method is described for local booting only

if the vhd was on an iSCSI LUN provided by iPXE, then would it not be local?

As long as you're in BIOS mode it would be, but once the Windows kernel has started, the drive would have to reconnect (because BIOS calls are no longer available), and for that you'd need Windows iSCSI support.

I think you missed the part about the RAMDISK

computer PXE boots
iPXE connects to iSCSI SAN volume
iPXE chain loads Grub4DOS
Grub4DOS loads VHD file on iSCSI SAN volume into RAMDISK then chain boots the Windows7 vhd in RAM disk

Windows 7 needs to be built in a vhd with the firadisk driver to work with the ramdisk

http://reboot.pro/topic/8804-firadisk-latest-00130/

Cheers

Arne