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ATA Over Ethernet FTW

TCPMetaTCPMeta
edited September 2014 in Software
I've been wanting to install WinXP Win7 and Win8 via PXE but it's a major pain in the rump to setup. You have to play with the AIK and boot in PE with 7 and 8. Well for giggles I tried playing with AOE "ATA Over Ethernet". Super easy to setup in Debian. Also I found out iPXE can boot to a AOE. I decided to take my WinXP jump drive and use disk dump to turned it into a simple IMG file and pointed the AOE service to use it as 0 1 as in rack 0 device 1. Modified iPXE to be used as a boot loader from the PXE server and used a custom configuration file that selects and uses the AOE, and i'll be damn it loaded the WinXP installer. I then tried it with Win7 the same way and it works just as well.

Neat thing is I can chainload iPXE so I don't need a boot disk or option ROM to use it, just use the default PXE client that is built into the system and select iPXE at the menu when connected to the PXE server. I'm planning to making a tutorial for the project.

Comments

  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    Seems interesting... Windows Deployment Services is pretty much a checkbox and a few questions to get working, has the added benefit of auto selecting pxe images for all hardware types, mbr, efi, secureboot.

    I don't know how XP plays with newer stuff but I do believe it can still be done.
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    In all the PXE loads into memory the AOE client and treats the remote image or partition as if its a local drive. As long as you use the right partition it works just fine. Friday i'll create the turtorial.
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    If anyone cares here is a guide on creating a AOE with PXE support in Debian Linux

    http://tcpmeta.duckdns.org/
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