Do you still have the details details about fixing Windows 11 boot over iscsi?
I love the idea of injecting drivers into windows and did a lot of experimenting along those lines (using WinPE to install drivers offline and edit the registry).
I upgraded my home network and am booting over iscsi using ipxe. My only two remaining issues are:
- Windows 11 25H2 fails to boot since 26200.7019 (and 24H2 since 26100.7019).
- Windows 10/11 S3 sleep+resume does not work with WinOF-2 (mlx5.sys) driver
Everything works well in linux, though!
I am using NixOS. I had to customize the initrd to use iscsistart to connect to the target. It is also important to run iscsid when the system boots to automatically reconnect (which annoyingly takes 10-15 seconds when I resume from sleep). I am using iSER (iscsi over rdma), but TCP worked fine too. I export ZFS zvols on the server over iscsi using targetcli (which configures the in-kernel iscsi target support, sometimes called LIO).
I love the idea of injecting drivers into windows and did a lot of experimenting along those lines (using WinPE to install drivers offline and edit the registry).
I upgraded my home network and am booting over iscsi using ipxe. My only two remaining issues are: - Windows 11 25H2 fails to boot since 26200.7019 (and 24H2 since 26100.7019). - Windows 10/11 S3 sleep+resume does not work with WinOF-2 (mlx5.sys) driver
Everything works well in linux, though!
I am using NixOS. I had to customize the initrd to use iscsistart to connect to the target. It is also important to run iscsid when the system boots to automatically reconnect (which annoyingly takes 10-15 seconds when I resume from sleep). I am using iSER (iscsi over rdma), but TCP worked fine too. I export ZFS zvols on the server over iscsi using targetcli (which configures the in-kernel iscsi target support, sometimes called LIO).
I tried NFS but the performance was bad.