Re: Windows 7 iscsi install

Whats the size of your hard disk ? Are you trying to create one single
partition ?

> In fact, my boot
> sequence doesn't work if partitions exist because gpxe will attempt to
> boot and get a "operating system missing" error and stop without ever
> falling back to boot to cd

Is your CD next in the boot sequence after the iSCSI target in your BIOS
boot order ?

Also make sure that you don't have any USB pen drives plugged in during
the installation and also
Remove you local hard drives.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyas Spiehler [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 07 February 2011 01:35
> To: Vivek Subbarao
> Subject: Re: [Etherboot-discuss] Windows 7 iscsi install
> 
> I've tried to install with no partitions created. In fact, my boot
> sequence doesn't work if partitions exist because gpxe will attempt to
> boot and get a "operating system missing" error and stop without ever
> falling back to boot to cd. Unless of course it was one of my attempts
> of booting to a SAN with the OS already installed, in which case it
> would never try to boot to cd because it would begin booting the OS on
> the SAN, however, as I mentioned before, this also doesn't work
> because it only reboots midway through booting.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Feb 6, 2011, at 12:31 AM, "Vivek Subbarao" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Are you installing to a raw disk or to a disk that already contains
a
> partition ? If its the second one, then Windows 7 might have some
> problem installing to that partition due to alignment issues. Try
> installing to a raw disk.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Vivek S
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lyas Spiehler [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Sat 2/5/2011 10:44 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Etherboot-discuss] Windows 7 iscsi install
> >
> > 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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