[syslinux] [gpxelinux] How to use sanboot.c32 to attach a iscsi lun and then boot from CD

[Bart van den Oetelaar]

Hi,

I've been trying a couple of day now, but I can't seem to figure it out.
On www.etherboot.org, I found the example of configuring gPXE so that 
it mounts an iSCSI lun and then boot from CDROM so you are able to 
install on the LUN. But if I use gpxelinux.0 (latest release 3.73), 
with sanboot.c32 like this:

label sanboot2008srv
	menu label ^[iscsi] Windows server 2008
	kernel sanboot.c32
	append iscsi:server.name::::iqn.2009-02.name.server:LUNNAME

Then I seen that the LUN get's attached:

Registered as BIOS drive 0x80
Booting from BIOS drive 0x89
Boot failed
Preserving connection to SAN disk
Could not boot from  
iscsi:server.name::::iqn.2009-02.name.server:LUNNAME: Operation 
cancelled (0x0b8080a0) SAN boot failed.
boot:

And then i am getting sent back to my pxelinux config menu... If i then 
try to boot of the local disk, gPXE closes, says no more network 
locations to boot from, then the PXE exits, and then the machine 
crashes and reboots.

(I wanted to test this so I use VMware workstation and VMware Server 
2.0, but neither work...)

Is this scenario valid what I'm trying to do? Is it possible to boot 
from CD after gPXE?

I'd like to get this working, it really seems like a great combination!

Kind regards,

-Bart