Re: XP boot troubles

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 17:58 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> I've been following the wiki, along with the debug instructions without
> any success.
> 
> 	http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/winnt_iscsi_debug
> 
> XP boots into the splash screen, waits ~60 seconds then reboots.  This
> happens on every boot with iSCSI.  I'm actually physically attaching the
> disk that I did the XP install to the iSCSI server, so there can't be
> any issues from the copying.  I also used the boot-capable iSCSI
> initiator and used the sanbootconf utility that's required for XP.
> 
> I've tried both with a PCI e1000 and a PCIe Realtek gigabit card built
> in to my motherboard.  I've attached the Windows debugger output that I
> captured during the e1000 try.  It looks to me like as soon as the
> network control is handed over to Windows, that I don't see any more
> network activity.
> 
> The only other odd thing is that it takes a *long* time for networking
> to start up, even with a normal boot.  Even after I log in to this
> machine, it is about 2 minutes before the network is usable.  The
> machine doesn't respond to pings or even arp at all during this time.
> 
> Any ideas?

I decided to go to the old Windows standby and reinstall.  This time, I
was careful.  The iSCSI boot worked until I installed Norton Internet
Security 2009.  I did a different install of their 2010 product, but
disabled the firewall before I rebooted.  As soon as I enabled the
firewall, the iSCSI connection died and the machine froze.  

-- Dave


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