Perhaps not the best place to ask about Windows problems, but I am at least I will raise awareness level.
I have 2 desktops that were running diskless booting from iSCSI (gpxe). One is 32 bit the other 64 bit. After converting from iscsitgt (shareiscsi propery) on snv 117, one of the windows hosts cannot boot from iSCSI. - 32 bit XP - everything works fine - 64 bit XP - starts booting, but when it's just about to switch to login screen hangs for about 40 seconds then comes up with Blue Screen that it cannot read SAM or SYSTEM registry (different messages). Reverting to siscsitgt allows windows to boot normally. Once booted, i can attach and mount devices from COMSTAR, but not boot from them. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this? The performance difference is amazing. I am getting 16'000 random 4K IO/sec over gigabit network (from memory) and this maxes out the dual-core CPU on the server. Compared to 7'000 with iscsiadm. Latency (with queue=1) drops from ~0.5 ms to ~0.24 ms (4K) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
