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How to boot windows 7 over iscsi with different hardware

Hi,

As the title suggests, I'm looking for something that will help me  to boot windows7 over iscsi with different NIC.

Here's the current situation,

I've iscsi set-up on ubuntu server edition with dhcp server up and running on it. All the settings related with the dhcp configuration have been taken care of (You can be sure of this).

Windows 7 has been installed on the iscsi disk thr' some particular machine (it's basically a thin-client, let's say x1). It has drivers corresponding to NIC of this machine. So this way I have a windows7 iscsi image and I can diskless boot from this image from the machine (x1) as many times as I want to without any problem and everything works fine.

Problem is when I try to boot from some completely different machine (say, thin-client, x2-with different NIC than x1), the booting process halts at "Starting Windows" windows logo.

The microsft hotfix works when ALL NIC going to be used to boot from iSCSI are present in computer. How to add NIC when it’s different brand?


Nikhil Chudekar


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