Windows Blue Screen booting from iSCSI Target and Intel i350 Initiator

When leveraging the Windows 2016 or Windows 2012 R2 in-box Intel® iSCSI drivers for boot from iSCSI target, an 0x7B Inaccessible Boot Device Blue Screen error may occur while booting from Intel i350-t Adapter initiator. This issue is limited to the in-box Intel i350 driver included in the Windows 2016 and Windows 2012 R2 operating system installation media images.

The text of the error and an image follow (Figure 1 [English-only]):

  
Figure 1: INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE error

Workaround

You can manually specify the Intel® iSCSI driver during the Windows installation. Extract the files from the Network_Driver_3PT51_WN64_18.0.0_A00.EXE Dell Update Package (DUP) to a USB thumb drive with the following command from an elevated CMD prompt: Network_Driver_XXXXX_WN64_XX.X.X_A00.exe /s /drivers=C:\mydir

1. During the Windows installation, you will need to use the Load Driver option from the Custom: Install Windows only (advanced) menu (Figure 2 [English-only]).
   
   
   Figure 2: The Load Driver option

2. Use the file picker to browse to the location of the contents of the 1G_i350 folder on your removable USB thumb drive and select the appropriate driver file for your adapter (Figure 3 [English-only]).
   
   
   Figure 3: Selecting the folder