Network booting use cases

Installing Windows from the network

• Using iPXE and wimboot to run Windows PE (recommended)
• Using iPXE and wimboot to run System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) (for large environments)
• Using Windows Deployment Services (WDS) (official Microsoft method)
• Using PXELinux
  • YouTube screencast - Part 1
  • YouTube screencast - Part 2
  • YouTube screencast - Part 3

How to switch to another iSCSI boot network card in Windows after installation

Open regedit, browse to HKLM\​System\​CurrentControlSet\​Control\​Network\​{4d36e974-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\​{B70D6460-3635-4D42-B866-B8AB1A24454C}\​Ndi and change FilterRunType to 2 instead of 1. I made this change and then it was able to boot right into the system using the new card. It says that you are supposed to change it back to 1 after boot and then modify the NDIS LWF filters on your network cards, but I didn't bother with that and just left it at 2. If I have any problems with it, I'll go from there.From Steve Cross on the iPXE mailing-list 2013-07-02.

• Microsoft knowledgebase article on how to avoid the 0x0000007B STOP error.
• Thread on the iPXE mailing-list about the issue.

Running SmartOS from the network

• Official SmartOS network booting documentation (recommended)
• Using PXELinux to netboot SmartOS
• Using FreeBSD 9 and PXELinux to boot SmartOS
• Using CentOS and iPXE to netboot SmartOS

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