Windows not booting after install (iSCSI)

Hi all,
I am attempting to boot a host over iSCSI but have run into a brick wall trying to get my host to boot after successfull install of the OS.
Without changing the service profile I am able to install and boot VMWare ESX fine. Windows just does not seem to boot.
I can see the iSCSI subsystem is working ok when I connect to the adapter:
SUNINT0001PB-A# connect adapter 4/5/1
adapter 4/5/1 # connect
adapter 4/5/1 (top):1# at
attach-fls attach-mcp
adapter 4/5/1 (top):1# attach-mcp
adapter 4/5/1 (mcp):1# is
iscsi_get_config iscsi_ping
adapter 4/5/1 (mcp):1# iscsi_get_config
vnic iSCSI Configuration:
vnic_id: 6
          link_state: Up
       Initiator Cfg:
     initiator_state: ISCSI_INITIATOR_READY
initiator_error_code: ISCSI_BOOT_NIC_NO_ERROR
                vlan: 0
         dhcp status: false
                 IQN: iqn.1992-08.cisco.com:irfjmp0003pb
             IP Addr: 10.250.137.214
         Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
             Gateway: 0.0.0.0
          Target Cfg:
          Target Idx: 0
               State: ISCSI_TARGET_READY
          Prev State: ISCSI_TARGET_DISABLED
        Target Error: ISCSI_TARGET_NO_ERROR
                 IQN: iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.1574897996
             IP Addr: 10.250.137.9
                Port: 3260
            Boot Lun: 0
          Ping Stats: Success (20.486ms)
        Session Info:
          session_id: 0
         host_number: 0
          bus_number: 0
           target_id: 0
Regards
Adam

Now it gets even stranger. As suspected the configuration is correct as I now have it booting into windows.
The strange part is, all was working ok until I applied all current updates, then it went into windows recovery mode and can't find my partition for recovery (only option I have is to reboot)
Have no idea what happened, so I re-installed. Re-installed ok, but the same problem as before, no boot volume found.
Re-installed again, but this time I released the windows boot media from the virtual CDROM drive while it was rebooting.
Windows booted sucessfully.
Very Strange.

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