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

[Michael Brown]

On Wednesday 25 February 2009 22:54:18 Michael Reichenbach wrote:
> You can use gpxe to boot grub4dos, see
> http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/pxe.htm
>
> From grub4dos you have the ability to boot CD-ROM, see
> http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/boot.htm#cd As long you are in
> real mode everything should be fine, but it's up to the operating system
> to arrange with the network.
>
> For example gpxe + grub4dos + floppy/iso image with freedos and
> netbootdisk.com over lan booting works great. As long you are in real
> mode everything is fine, but in other modes you are on your own.

You're quite a few years behind the state of the art here.  :)

You can use gPXE to boot various operating systems (DOS, Linux, Windows 
2003/XP/2008/Vista/7) over the network from an iSCSI disk.  Some operating 
systems (such as Windows 2008+) will allow you to install directly to the 
iSCSI disk; others require you to install to a physical disk first and then 
copy the disk image to the iSCSI target.

There is tutorial-style documentation available for all this at

  http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot

You can also use gpxelinux to do most of these tasks, although there will be 
some corner cases (such as installing direct to iSCSI) that are known to work 
with gPXE but haven't yet been tested with gpxelinux.

Michael