Re: [Etherboot-discuss] Need help with San boot - Windows XP boot stuckat Logo

[Mahboob A. <Mah...@ri...>]

Thanks for the suggestion, I will try this one out and let you know.

Thanks
Mahboob

From: Vivek Subbarao [mailto:vi...@ch...]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 2:35 AM
To: Mahboob AliKhan; eth...@li...
Cc: Nitin Gupta
Subject: RE: [Etherboot-discuss] Need help with San boot - Windows XP boot stuckat Logo

Try making the disk signature 0 in the OS image you are booting from. This signature starts at offset of 440 and is 4 bytes long. Take a look at MBR wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record.

From: Mahboob AliKhan [mailto:Mah...@ri...]
Sent: 03 February 2011 13:58
To: eth...@li...
Cc: Nitin Gupta
Subject: [Etherboot-discuss] Need help with San boot - Windows XP boot stuckat Logo


I was trying to do a san boot (gpxe) using a windows XP and I am facing some issues with it.

I have installed Microsoft iscsi boot initiator and san boot as mentioned on website (http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/winnt_iscsi) and followed the steps mentioned, installing win XP on 4 gb partition and trying to boot it from a Linux machine. The problem I am facing is the boot goes fine till I see the windows logo and then it just sits there and it goes in some kind of weird loop there.

So, in order to debug, I installed windbg and I noticed some irregularities:
"No sBFT found".

I am trying to san boot on a Windows Desktop (Dell model).

I am attaching the debugging transcript  I got from windbg, Can someone please let me know what's wrong?

Really appreciate your help in advance.

Thanks
Ali