On 08/01/2017 07:43 PM, shouldbe q931 wrote:
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Floris Bos <b...@je-eigen-domein.nl> wrote:
Hi,
We normally tell servers to initiate a PXE network boot through IPMI
commands, among the lines of:
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 1.2.3.4 -U ipmiuser -P password bootdev pxe
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 1.2.3.4 -U ipmiuser -P password power cycle
Works well for starting Linux installations, however if we do this with
wimboot Windows fails to install.
Gives a "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an
existing system partition" error message in Windows setup.
While installation does go fine if not sending the "bootdev pxe" command,
but manually selecting boot device from BIOS boot menu.
Like Windows setup has problems detecting what is the first hard drive when
we meddled with the boot order through IPMI, or something like that.
Any solution to this?
Have you tried a wimboot boot of WinPE of the OS version that is
failing the install and seeing if it can see drives/partitions ?
Problem seems to be specific to one Supermicro board model (X11SSL-F)
Does work on older models (e.g. X10SCM-F)
Windows does see the drive (but refuses to install on it)
But apparently BIOS/wimboot does not, as it's emulating drive 0x80
instead of a higher number.
Yours sincerely,
Floris Bos
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