Cannot PXE boot to deploy an image...

Delvis · 12 Nov 2010 at 11:34

Hello there

Just a quicky...would there be a reason why PXE boot does not work?

As in, you goto PXE boot, press F12, then once the 'windows bar' loads it gets a BSOD? (I'll note the code down in a sec)

PXE boot works on the other systems on the site but not this one? The HDD is blank, so all we're trying to do is deploy it onto this system...It was mentioned to turn off AHCI but the bios does not have this option?

I'm not an expert on PXE boot so kind of stumped as to what to do, various sources have pointed to incorrect driver

Any ideas?

Delvis · 12 Nov 2010 at 12:45

Error: 0x0000007F (0x0000000F, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

No idea tbh...I'm guessing PXE plls something from a server and this is failing to work on this system?

LizardKing · 12 Nov 2010 at 16:18

Once the OS is booting PXE has done its bit, the problem lies somewhere else - faulty hardware would be my guess

Delvis · 12 Nov 2010 at 16:21

LizardKing said:
Once the OS is booting PXE has done its bit, the problem lies somewhere else - faulty hardware would be my guess

That's my point, no O/S is loading because the hard drive is blank...?

I am trying to deploy an image using Windows Deployment services

...And the WDS server we have here only pushes the one 'profile' as it were..from there you deploy the desired image

LizardKing · 12 Nov 2010 at 16:32

Delvis said:
That's my point, no O/S is loading because the hard drive is blank...?

Its loaded into the memory

Delvis · 12 Nov 2010 at 16:36

LizardKing said:
Its loaded into the memory

Ah sorry, my head didnt click for some reason.

I did read this on the net...I've ran memtest on the ram...disconnected the hard drive (Will try a seperate on next week...)

Only other thing I can do is try a seperate system, which, again, i'll try next week

Thanks for the reply man

KIA · 12 Nov 2010 at 20:13

It sounds like a driver issue if Windows is BSODing.

Deleted member 77746 · 12 Nov 2010 at 20:30

What system are you trying to deploy? Are you using Windows XP / Windows 7 deployment? Have you intergrated SCCM into the deployment?

The deployment is fine since your getting an F12 promt, and a load. It's after this where the problem lies. AHCI needs to be OFF unless you have the correct drivers intergrated (If it's XP).

Delvis · 13 Nov 2010 at 16:30

iDroid84 said:
What system are you trying to deploy? Are you using Windows XP / Windows 7 deployment? Have you intergrated SCCM into the deployment?

The deployment is fine since your getting an F12 promt, and a load. It's after this where the problem lies. AHCI needs to be OFF unless you have the correct drivers intergrated (If it's XP).

The actualy system doesnt have a specific AHCI option, which is what we thought the problem was...stupid thing is we used WDS a few weeks back over the holidays, its just daft.

I dont see why there is any driver loading though, your going onto a network and pushing an image from there, why they dont use something like Ghost I dont know, dont need a damn O/S loaded in the back ground

I'm giving a few more things a go next week, nothing should be 'wrong' as they only have like 2 types of PC's in the school and they were all deployed using WDS...meh

Deleted member 77746 · 13 Nov 2010 at 17:36

Delvis said:
The actualy system doesnt have a specific AHCI option, which is what we thought the problem was...stupid thing is we used WDS a few weeks back over the holidays, its just daft.

I dont see why there is any driver loading though, your going onto a network and pushing an image from there, why they dont use something like Ghost I dont know, dont need a damn O/S loaded in the back ground

I'm giving a few more things a go next week, nothing should be 'wrong' as they only have like 2 types of PC's in the school and they were all deployed using WDS...meh

Yes, but what type ov pc is it? Type/Model e.t.c

ns400r · 14 Nov 2010 at 00:06

After the system PXE boots it then loads an operating system from the network. You choose this from the menu it presents. This in turn takes control and uses its OWN drivers to carry on the process. If youy don't have the correct driver in your boot image it will fail.

Delvis · 14 Nov 2010 at 11:56

iDroid84 said:
Yes, but what type ov pc is it? Type/Model e.t.c

Off hand I believe they are Lenovo M58's...standard across the board

ns400r said:
After the system PXE boots it then loads an operating system from the network. You choose this from the menu it presents. This in turn takes control and uses its OWN drivers to carry on the process. If youy don't have the correct driver in your boot image it will fail.

Aye...But all of the systems in school are the same...there is no menu or anything as there is only the one (forgive me for using the incorrect word or anything, cant think of the correct term...) PXE boot image on the WDS server, always has been.

Theres something like 500 PC's on site and they've all used this method to get the image, so somethings amiss with the hardware somewhere.

Once we do the PXE boot, it basically comes up with a command prompt where we then need to type a load of commands to load the correct image for the system (There are a few images you see)...

I'll be trying different systems next week to see what happens