Oleg Goldshmidt pub@goldshmidt.org writes:
Adam Sulmicki adam@cfar.umd.edu writes:
seems to me like this solution basically redirect BIOS I/O interrupts.
What happens once Windows boots up and attempt to access hardware directly without BIOS calls in between? Is Windows smart enough to work by default with hdd (for example : what about swap?)
You have to solve the problem at BIOS time and at OS time, obviously. Google for "Windows iSCSI" to get an idea of iSCSI support in Windows. Booting is more complicated for a variety of reasons.
OK. With iSCSI you really are doing a disked based boot, and have the same issues you have booting from fiber channel or any other disk that does not have an OS based driver. The rough edges are different but the basic problems are the same.
That make sense.
Eric