Re: gPXE Second network card "Cannot start" W2kr2iSCSI boot

Will Sheldon <[email protected]> Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:36:41 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
lol, no problem I just redeployed the image. I've been doing that alot 
today anyway :-)

Useful tip about the start option reg tweak there though..

I was thinking that maybe I could run devcon to disable and enable the 
second NIC during the bootexecute bit of windows startup. It's hacky, 
but it may work.

Other than that, is there any way to bring the NIC up with gPXE before 
booting? I tried adding

ifopen net1

to the boot script, but it just errored saying that the NIC doesn't exist.



Miller, Shao wrote:
> Good day again Will,
>
> Eek!  Sorry!  I forgot to warn you about that in the case the NICs are
> identical.  When you uninstalled the NIC(s') driver, it did not remove
> iSCSI drivers.  When you re-installed the driver, all was fine except
> that the Start option for the driver under
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\drivername was not set to 0.  If
> you can attach the SAN from another Windows, you could use RegEdit and
> its "Load Hive..." option to change that Registry setting in the SAN's
> \Windows\System32\Config\SYSTEM Registry hive.
>
> - Shao Miller
>    


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