installing windows7 on iscsi target failed

[Aigor]

Hi, i'm tryng to use menu.ipx to install windows7 on iscsi target, o have successfuly setup web server according to menu.ipxe, right in place bootstrap.ipxe,menu.ipxe, undionly.kpxe in /tftpdroot folder, i have successfuly copied whole iso of windows7 adjust configuration, when try to start installation the system askm to prese any key to boot from dvd, after doing so, i get \boot\bcd error.



I'm using synology webserver

[mcb30]

(2013-04-24 19:52)Aigor Wrote:  Hi, i'm tryng to use menu.ipx to install windows7 on iscsi target, o have successfuly setup web server according to menu.ipxe, right in place bootstrap.ipxe,menu.ipxe, undionly.kpxe in /tftpdroot folder, i have successfuly copied whole iso of windows7 adjust configuration, when try to start installation the system askm to prese any key to boot from dvd, after doing so, i get \boot\bcd error.

I'm afraid I have no idea what is in your bootstrap.ipxe or menu.ipxe scripts, so it's hard to give any suggestions about what your problem might be.

I would recommend that you try following the instructions at http://ipxe.org/wimboot to get started with booting Windows over the network. Once you have that working, you can try progressing to iSCSI SAN booting and installation.

Michael

[Aigor]

(2013-04-24 22:15)mcb30 Wrote:  

(2013-04-24 19:52)Aigor Wrote:  Hi, i'm tryng to use menu.ipx to install windows7 on iscsi target, o have successfuly setup web server according to menu.ipxe, right in place bootstrap.ipxe,menu.ipxe, undionly.kpxe in /tftpdroot folder, i have successfuly copied whole iso of windows7 adjust configuration, when try to start installation the system askm to prese any key to boot from dvd, after doing so, i get \boot\bcd error.

I'm afraid I have no idea what is in your bootstrap.ipxe or menu.ipxe scripts, so it's hard to give any suggestions about what your problem might be.

I would recommend that you try following the instructions at http://ipxe.org/wimboot to get started with booting Windows over the network. Once you have that working, you can try progressing to iSCSI SAN booting and installation.

Michael

Thank you for the answer, it comes from the git hub of forum's owner i just followed the files and adjust with my setup, i' suspect that is a problem of the web server on synology, i'v read something about mod_headers that regulate large file.

[mcb30]

(2013-04-24 22:29)Aigor Wrote:  Thank you for the answer, it comes from the git hub of forum's owner i just followed the files and adjust with my setup, i' suspect that is a problem of the web server on synology, i'v read something about mod_headers that regulate large file.

I would recommend that you try following the instructions at http://ipxe.org/wimboot to get started with booting Windows over the network. Once you have that working, you can try progressing to iSCSI SAN booting and installation.

Michael

[danny]

I encountered the same problem, which is the tftp transfer when the default is lowercase, you can view the log will find the problem.now I installed windows7 by

Code:

sanboot --no-describe --keep http://$serverip/windows/win7.iso

[Aigor]

(2013-04-26 02:40)danny Wrote:  I encountered the same problem, which is the tftp transfer when the default is lowercase, you can view the log will find the problem.now I installed windows7 by

Code:

sanboot --no-describe --keep http://$serverip/windows/win7.iso

I will try tonigth at home, the only difference is in --keep in sanboot command line, iso name is all in lowercase

[DanielSmedegaardBuus]

Did you ever get this to work?

I'm facing the exact same problem, and the --keep option doesn't change anything for me.

[danny]

(2013-05-13 11:33)DanielSmedegaardBuus Wrote:  Did you ever get this to work?

I'm facing the exact same problem, and the --keep option doesn't change anything for me.

Proposed reference this method：
“http://ipxe.org/wimboot”。
lah

[DanielSmedegaardBuus]

(2013-05-24 08:36)danny Wrote:  Did you ever get this to work?

I'm facing the exact same problem, and the --keep option doesn't change anything for me.

No, sorry. I just ended up using an external DVD drive to install from.

[ArneLovius]

At a guess you were trying to boot from a Windows7 iso served over iSCSI, this will not work.

[DanielSmedegaardBuus]

(2013-05-24 15:31)ArneLovius Wrote:  At a guess you were trying to boot from a Windows7 iso served over iSCSI, this will not work.

Seems not, but it was part of the robinsmidsrod's githubbed menu stuff that is otherwise so nice, so I guess that's where it went wrong

Care to elaborate on why it doesn't work? I'm pretty clueless to much of this iPXE stuff, so any new knowledge is very welcome

[robinsmidsrod]

I just want to tell people that some of the examples on how to boot/install Window 7 to iSCSI in my menu script is no longer recommended practice. Use the iPXE WinPE howto to get your windows installer running over the network.

Running the Windows installer from an http-loaded iso DOES NOT WORK!