Windows 7 iscsi install

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I am chainloading gpxe through my existing pxe environment. When I attempt
to boot to an unpartitioned iscsi target, my system falls back to cd
booting, when it loads up the windows 7 enterprise install cd, and looks
fine until it actually appears to begin "copying files" during the
installation, but fails before reaching even 1% with an error message that
says, "Windows could not format a partition on disk 0. The error occurred
while preparing the partition selected for installation. Error code:
0x80070057" I can however load the iscsi target using windows iscsi
initiator and format the disk successfully. I've tried this with 3 different
client computers all using different nics. I've also tried this with 2
different servers. Both of them had different nics. I've used IET and TGT to
setup targets on Ubuntu and CentOS based distributions. I've used USB flash
drives, IDE drives, and SATA drives as targets. I've also installed directly
to the disks and booted to them over iscsi using gpxe, but they reboot
midway through booting with no error. I've also used different windows 7
install disks (professional and enterprise). Within each test environment, I
can perform and operation against any of my targets within disk management
after using the iscsi initiator to connect my servers, without a hitch.
(create partitions, format partitions, delete partitions, write and read to
the filesystem) I'm officially out of ideas and desperate. Any help is
greatly appreciated! Thank you!

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I am chainloading gpxe through my existing pxe environment. When I attempt =
to boot to an unpartitioned iscsi target, my system falls back to cd bootin=
g, when it loads up the windows 7 enterprise install cd, and looks fine unt=
il it actually appears to begin "copying files" during the instal=
lation, but fails before reaching even 1% with an error message that says, =
"Windows could not format a partition on disk 0. The error occurred wh=
ile preparing the partition selected for installation. Error code: 0x800700=
57" I can however load the iscsi target using windows iscsi initiator =
and format the disk successfully. I've tried this with 3 different clie=
nt computers all using different nics. I've also tried this with 2 diff=
erent servers. Both of them had different nics. I've used IET and TGT t=
o setup targets on Ubuntu and CentOS based distributions. I've used USB=
 flash drives, IDE drives, and SATA drives as targets. I've also instal=
led directly to the disks and booted to them over iscsi using gpxe, but the=
y reboot midway through booting with no error. I've also used different=
 windows 7 install disks (professional and enterprise). Within each test en=
vironment, I can perform and operation against any of my targets within dis=
k management after using the iscsi initiator to connect my servers, without=
 a hitch. (create partitions, format partitions, delete partitions, write a=
nd read to the filesystem) I'm officially out of ideas and desperate. A=
ny help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!<br>

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