Re: pxe boot doesnt move on to cdrom
"David F. Bakker" <[email protected]>
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It's a nvidia 790I ultra with the latest P08 bios. What I ended up doing was after it failed on trying to boot the iSCSI drive (expected) CTRL-B and typed to commands to have it pxe boot a windows PE environment. Once that came up I ran setup off of the dvdrom and everything has been working great since. -----Original Message----- From: Miller, Shao [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 10:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Etherboot-discuss] pxe boot doesnt move on to cdrom Good day David, Unfortunately, we've received multiple reports where exiting gPXE does not fall through to the next BIOS boot device in the BIOS boot order. It might be handy to have a record of the BIOS &/ system involved in your scenario. As a workaround, you could possibly install GRUB4DOS to the iSCSI SAN target. gPXE would actually boot it on the SAN, then you could use GRUB4DOS' CD-booting capabilities to continue booting the installation disc from your ODD (optical disc drive) media. Fairly ugly, I know. The GRUB4DOS commands would go something like: cdrom --init map --hook root (cd0) chainloader (cd0) boot - Shao Miller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Etherboot-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/etherboot-discuss ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july