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iPXE booting Windows 7 off iSCSI on a Mac?
2015-03-20, 09:16
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iPXE booting Windows 7 off iSCSI on a Mac?
Greetings to all!

I was just wondering if the following was possible or not. I've been trying to unsuccessfully build a x86_64-elf toolchain to cross-compile iPXE, though I haven't really gotten anywhere with that- I figured I might as well ask and see if what I want to do is even possible to begin with.

I've got a couple of Mac systems here (a classic Mac Pro, and two laptops) and I was wondering if I could netboot Windows 7 via iSCSI on them, preferably through EFI. The only mention I've seen about iSCSI and EFI booting was from two years ago.

Is this now possible?

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2016-10-07, 09:20
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RE: iPXE booting Windows 7 off iSCSI on a Mac?
iSCSI sanboot is not yet possible under UEFI (which is what Macs use). It's on the TODO list, but it is currently lacking funding/developer time.
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2016-11-21, 19:28
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RE: iPXE booting Windows 7 off iSCSI on a Mac?
efi sanboot seems to have been implemented a few days ago: https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff...25c2c2f5ad different forum post about this: http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=6896

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2016-11-21, 21:37
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RE: iPXE booting Windows 7 off iSCSI on a Mac?
(2016-11-21 19:28)NiKiZe Wrote:  efi sanboot seems to have been implemented a few days ago: https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff...25c2c2f5ad different forum post about this: http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=6896

Not quite yet... the concept has been introduced, but no implementation yet, as I understand it.

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