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[Sha0]

An oft-requested ability:

It is now possible to use iPXE to directly boot from an ISO image held on a SAN target (e.g. AoE, iSCSI, FCoE). This has the same limitations as using memdisk to boot an ISO image, but without the memory overhead or initial download delay of memdisk.

There's no special syntax: just make the ISO image available on the SAN target and then attempt to boot from it (using "sanboot" or with a DHCP root-path).
For example:

(on server) vblade 0 0 eth0 /path/to/winpe.iso
(on iPXE) sanboot aoe:e0.0

I have tested that WinPE and the VMware installer are able to start using this method. I'd appreciate any further testing.

Michael

References:

• iPXE - Open Source Boot Firmware
• iPXE Discussion Forum
• Understanding the Double-RAM Requirement

[rebit]

Yes, i made a new how-to explaing this.

Appreciate:

http://windowsdiskless.wordpress.com

[Grif]

Maintain your links asswipe. You wasted hours of my time because your documentation is poor, and your dropbox links are dead.

YOU ARE DOING NO GOOD WHATSOEVER.

[Sha0]

YOU ARE DOING NO GOOD WHATSOEVER.

All 3 links I shared still work for me.

[Grif]

All 3 links I shared still work for me.

The dropbox links are dead due to overuse/abuse.

Furthermore, the direct links to the Starwind software are not available to download without a corporate email address. Lame, very lame.

In addition, if you would have left some contact info on your site beyond the twitter and facebook social networking garbage, this would have been sent via email and spared this forum of noise and vitriol.

Good going bro

Edited by Grif, 26 November 2012 - 06:50 AM.

[Sha0]

The dropbox links are dead due to overuse/abuse.

You apparently didn't get my joke, and apparently didn't look at who's posting what.

[Grif]

@Sha0 Correct, I was directing my feedback to rebit. Perhaps I didn't make that clear. I'm sorry you misunderstood, and am sorry I mistook your reply as relevant.