[syslinux] iSCSI booting Windows XP

Jeff Sadowski jeff.sadowski at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 23:50:03 PDT 2009


Out of shear curiosity will gpxelinux.0 completely replace pxelinux.0
eventually?

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:00 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> 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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> H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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