SCCM PXE Boot - Lenovo ThinkPad Helix Gen 2

[shawn.pederson]

Evaluating the new Helix 2nd Gen, banging my head against the wall trying to get the newer "ThinkPad Tablet Setup" UEFI BIOS to BOOT to anything but the hard drive (i.e. Lenovo USB 3.0 NIC, CD, USB).

The BIOS clearly sees these bootable devices when I have them connected but it appears to just boot me right back to the main BIOS screen.

I have read some posts on these devices being unable to boot into another OS (i.e. WinPE for SCCM deployments).

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-Tablet-and-Helix/Helix-2-Model-20CH-No-Legacy-Boot-Option-in-B...

Has anyone out there had luck deploying these with SCCM? We have other UEFI BIOS' that boot into alternate OS' just fine (i.e. Surface Pro, Dell Latitude E7250).

I have to be missing something.

[shawn.pederson]

Wow, I will try this shortly. We ordered one back in.

[anyweb]

here's an alternative, connect the usb 3.0 adaptor (nic) to a usb hub.

[shawn.pederson]

So I went ahead and purchased the Lenovo ThinkPad Helix 2nd Gen. model 20CH with the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Dock Model PRX18 (Type 4X10, Product ID 4X10H03962). PXE booted via IPv4 first try without messing around in the BIOS. For the life of me I could not get it to PXE boot with just the Lenovo USB NIC. And here Lenovo was telling me it's my SCCM configuration, get outta here!

 

[fancypants75]

Found the cause of out woes.......Hyper-V. Our SCCM is hosted on Hyper-V, configured additional NIC as Legacy then configured SCCM to respond to PXE on those NIC's. Working