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Instructions to Configure BFi for Intel NIC 19
Preparing the Host and Operating System Boot Image
1
In the host system, go to the BIOS menu and confirm that the boot order
lists the local hard drive before the iSCSI LUN.
NOTICE: The following step is mandatory. Failure to follow the step may cause the
operating system to display a blue screen and fail to boot.
2
Log in to the operating system. Open the
Disk Management Console
and
verify that the iSCSI LUN is recognized.
NOTE: It is strongly recommended that you do not login to the iSCSI target
manually. The iSCSI Software Initiator automatically retrieves the iSCSI boot
configuration from the Intel PRO/1000 adapter iSCSI Boot firmware. If you
manually add connections inside the initiator with the same paths as
configured in the iSCSI boot firmware, the system may hang, display a blue
screen or reboot during failover.
3
Boot to a bootable device such as a diskette drive, media, or USB key and
run a disk imaging software such as Symantec Ghost.
4
Clone the local disk to the iSCSI LUN (disk to disk).
5
Reboot the host.
6
Go to the BIOS menu, change the boot order to disable the local hard
drive and reboot. The host now boots from the iSCSI LUN.
Cloning
If you intend to create an operating system image to deploy to multiple hosts,
run Sysprep prior to cloning the LUN.
1
In the system drive root, create a directory and name it as
Sysprep
.
2
In your operating system media, locate the archive file
support\tools\deploy.cab
and copy all the contents to the
Sysprep
directory.
3
Use the
setupmgr.exe
utility to create the
sysprep.inf
file and follow the on
the screen instructions to provide specific information.
4
In the
Sysprep.inf
file, edit the
[Unattended]
section as shown below:
[Unattended]
LegacyNic=1