Re: [Etherboot-discuss] windows 7 sanboot

[Michael H. <iti...@gm...>]

Hi Mahboob,
Windows 7 has a hard time figuring out its disk architecture. There is a
registry key you can delete, or run Fogprep.exe from the Fog Project
installation package. A google search should point you in the right
direction.
Mike
On Mar 6, 2011 2:03 PM, "Mahboob AliKhan" <Mah...@ri...>
wrote:
> I had a question about windows 7 sanboot and would appreciate some help.
>
> So, when I try sanbooting windows 7, i noticed that it by default makes 2
partitions while installing. the first one is some 100 MB, that it uses for
some configuration files and 12 Gb for other installation files. Now after I
installed the windows 7 on to the local disk, i wanted to copy the image
from local disk to my iscsi target. So, when i do fdisk -l on my local
machine, it shows 2 partitions, so i did a dd command which starts from
first cylinder and goes on till the last cylinder, in short, I am copying
the whole thing ( 2 partitions) as one big Lun ( one partition). Now whats
happening becuase of this is that, when I try to boot my laptop with this
LUN, it starts fine, then it says bad hard disk and reboots again.
>
> So, can some one please explain me, how i can copy the windows 7 image to
a target with avoiding this issue.
>
> btw, I have tried installing it directly to an iscsi target and it works
fine, but my use case requires me to copy it to the local machine and then
copying it over.
>
> Thanks
> Mahboob
>
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