Re: Selecting boot adapter

Michael Brown <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 18:49:49 Wagnell, Joseph M (IS) wrote:
> IS there anyway to specify which NIC to use as the boot adapter. The
> machines I'm booting have two, dual port NICs (same hardware/drivers -
> e1express). When I installed the iSCSI initiator (win2003) I selected
> one of the ports to set as the boot device. Now that it is installed, I
> would like to use a different port, but I've been unable to get it to
> boot (stops with 0x0000007B). Any help/ideas would be great.
>
> I've tried reinstalling iscsi initiator and selecting appropriate port.
> I also ran iscsibcg /verify/fix and everything looked fine.
>
> I managed to switch ports in XP, using sanbootcfg. Can I use sanbootcfg
> on Win2003? Would I have to remove the MS boot support?

sanbootconf should work on Win2003.  You should probably either install the MS 
iSCSI initiator without selecting "Enable iSCSI boot support", or just 
disable the iscsibp.sys service manually.

Michael

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