Re: gpxe doesn't works with ESXi 4 and Windows 2008/2008 R2?

Hello again,

It appears that my overzealous email client did some strange things with a  
reply I tried to send you on thursday afternoon.

My apologies.

-Andrew Bobulsky

On Oct 22, 2009 2:02pm, Andrew Bobulsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mr. Martinez,



> While it won't explicitly solve the problem you're having, I and many  
> other gPXE users have successfully performed installations of Server  
> 2008, Vista, and 7 up to iSCSI targets as guests in VMware Workstation.



> If you have Workstation available, you could try grabbing the VM's folder  
> off of your datastore, loading the VMX file in Workstation, and then  
> booting the VM there to install Server 2008. Of course, once you're done,  
> you should be able to upload the VM's folder back to your VMFS datastore  
> from your Workstation machine (or you *may* be able to just boot the VM  
> in place, ensure you have a static MAC address set if your VM configs)  
> and continue as normal.



> If this doesn't work, then I'd suggest you look at your iSCSI target or  
> Windows 2008 installation disk.



> Good luck,



> Andrew Bobulsky





> On Oct 22, 2009, at 10:30 AM, carlopmart wrote:




> carlopmart wrote:


> Hi all,



> I am trying to install two windows guest machines (Windows 2008 and

> Windows 2008 R2) under ESXi 4 (fully patched) onto a different iSCSI

> targets (virtual guests, too) using e1000 nic interface. Every time

> results are the same: it's impossible.



> Every time install fails with the following error: "Windows can not be

> installed on this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting

> to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the

> computer's BIOS menu." If I try to make a disk partition fails with the

> error: "Disk is not writable ..."



> I have tried to attach a local disk like in etherboot.org wiki/howtos

> recommends, but error continues: I can't install Windows Server onto

> iSCSI disk.



> I'll do all tests using the following iSCSI target products:



> - IET (http://iscsitarget.sf.net)

> - RedHat/Centos/SLES iSCSI targets (tgtd)

> - OpenSolaris 2009.06 with and without COMSTAR

> - Solaris 10 U7-U8



> I have used GPXE images from 0.9.3 to 0.9.9 also and I think its starts

> ok because message "Preserving connection to SAN disk" appears.



> My dhcpd.conf is:



> allow booting;

> allow bootp;

> ddns-update-style none;

> ddns-updates off;

> authoritative;

> ignore client-updates;

> option space gpxe;

> option gpxe-encap-opts code 175 = encapsulate gpxe;

> option gpxe.priority code 1 = signed integer 8;

> option gpxe.keep-san code 8 = unsigned integer 8;

> option gpxe.no-pxedhcp code 176 = unsigned integer 8;

> option gpxe.bus-id code 177 = string;

> option gpxe.bios-drive code 189 = unsigned integer 8;

> option gpxe.username code 190 = string;

> option gpxe.password code 191 = string;

> option gpxe.reverse-username code 192 = string;

> option gpxe.reverse-password code 193 = string;

> option gpxe.version code 235 = string;

> option iscsi-initiator-iqn code 203 = string;







> subnet 172.25.60.0 netmask 255.255.255.240 {

> range 172.25.60.7 172.25.60.14;

> option broadcast-address 172.25.60.15;

> }



> host iscsicli03 {

> hardware ethernet 00:50:56:1c:53:ab;

> fixed-address 172.25.60.7;

> filename "";

> option iscsi-initiator-iqn

> "iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:03:7b8d283a3b6a";

> option root-path

> "iscsi:172.25.60.3:::0:iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:bb6c0664-2847-4cdf-e72d-d53b05a0cec7.soliscsi01";



> option gpxe.keep-san 1;

> option gpxe.no-pxedhcp 1;

> }



> Am I doing something wrong?? or Isn't possible to do this under ESXi or

> using any of these iSCSI targets??



> Many thanks for your help.






> Any ideas please??



> --

> CL Martinez

> carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com



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