Original order: rootdisk=1 (empty 200Gi virtio), windows-iso=2 (SATA CDROM).
UEFI tried the empty virtio disk first, got nothing, fell back to Boot0001
(the SATA CDROM) with a short timeout, and aborted with:
BdsDxe: failed to start Boot0001 ... Time out
BdsDxe: No bootable option or device was found.
VM had been running 38+ min with rootdisk actualSize stuck at 4.13 GiB and
no AgentConnected condition — install never started.
Diagnosis via debug pod mounting the windows-server-2025-iso PVC:
/pvc/disk.img: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'SSS_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9' (bootable)
bytes 0..15: zeros (NOT QCOW2 magic 51 46 49 fb)
bytes 32769..32773: "CD001" (ISO9660 primary volume descriptor)
So the PVC content is a real bootable ISO — the only fix needed is to make
the ISO bootOrder=1 for first install. After Windows installs, it writes its
own UEFI Boot#### entries pointing at the rootdisk EFI partition; UEFI then
boots from rootdisk going forward and the ISO at bootOrder:2 is a fallback
for re-install scenarios.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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