[syslinux] iSCSI booting Windows XP

[H. Peter Anvin]

yunch3 wrote:
> Dear Developer:
>     i am working a project including iSCSI booting.  i have a iscsi server with windows xp system image and fedora system image, and a booting server providing dhcp and tftp services.I made some menus using pxelinux and things are working fine with linux, but failed with windows .
>     i use the following strings in my dhcpd.conf:
>     .......
>     filename = "pxelinux.0";
>     option root-path "iscsi:192.168.1.222::::iqn.2001-04.com.example:storage.disk1.xp";
>     .......
>    and in the tftp booting directory i have in  "pxelinux.cfg/default" :
>    ........
>    label linux
>    kernel vmlinux
>    initrd initrd.img
>    label xp
>    kernel gpxe.lkrn
>    ........
>    the problem is every time pxelinux have downloaded gpxe.lkrn ,it try to "Booting from filename "" from tftp://0.0.0.0/",it seems that the "option root-path" parameter have not passed to "gpxe.lkrn" .
>    it is said that when the "filename" option is "" in dhcpd.conf , pxe turn to "root-path",i have tried so ,however net-booting stop at "no boot filename received".
>    i am sure there is no problem with my iscsi server,because i can boot xp by hand input "sanboot iscsi:192.168.1.222::::iqn.2001-04.com.example:storage.disk1.xp".
>    By the way my NIC type is RTL8139/810x.
>    i'd like to know the right way to congfig  my boot server to boot xp directly throught gpxe.
>    Thanks in advance, Tomaz Kavcic (Slovenia). 
>    

The easiest way is probably to replace pxelinux.0 with gpxelinux.0; then
you should simply be able to do:

label xp
  com32 sanboot.c32
  append iscsi:192.168.1.222::::iqn.2001-04.com.example:storage.disk1.xp

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