Hello Bin,
This issue happens with many BIOSes out there. Basically (and I don't completely understand it myself) it considers gPXE's handing back of the boot process to be a failure and just wants you to reboot. which can be aggravating :-P Anyway, you basically need to attempt a (failed) sanboot as you have here, but after that you need to load the next step in the process (Windows PE) in the context of what gPXE can launch. Several methods are covered here: http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/win2k8_iscsi_install#alternative_method_us ing_winpe If you can load WinPE from the network, that would be the simplest method (but not the easiest, in my experience), but the PXELINUX method mentioned below that would probably give you the least headache as far as installation goes. Either way, best of luck to you. Regards, Andrew Bobulsky From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bin Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 10:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [gPXE] install win 7 to SAN - boot fail I think someone had the same issue in July but I can't find any solutions so far. I have two mahines with the same issue. One is nvidia Nforce 730i Motherboard (and Nvidia NIC/BootAgent), the other is realtek NIC. I am using UNDI only 1.0.1. The chain loading works fine and gpxe got all the infomation. Howerver, the computer refused to boot from next source(CDROM). Instead I only got the option of "PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT". Here is one sample output. DHCP (net XX:XX:XX:XX:XX) ... ok Registered as BIOS drive 0x00 Booting from BIOS drive 0x00 Boot falied Preserving connection to SAN DISK Could not boot from iscsi:192.168.x.x::::pc01 Operation cancelled 0xb08080a0 PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT Thanks,
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