Cannot see images after successfull PXE boot

[denisrsd17]

Hoping I can get some quick help here. Ive tried searching for this problem but can't see to find anything that answers my question.

 

Im booting a laptop into WDS and its successfull, but when I got to choose an image, it says no images are available. Ive been using this server for a while to do multiple images, and this is the first time Ive come across this.

 

I can verify that there are two images in the WDS console that have been working fine for me for a while. The laptops im trying to deploy this time are a little different in that they are Celeron versions of the E5500 I have, but that is the only difference. The NIC drivers are working fine as Im getting to the view images section.

 

Anyone able to help?

[anyweb]

are the images XP ?

[denisrsd17]

are the images XP ?

 

 

Yes they are XP, but Ive got it narrowed down a little I think.

 

The models are Dell e5500, both use Broadcom Netextreme 57XX cards

the laptops that work have driver version 10.57.0.0, these new laptops are driver version 11.X.X.X

 

The older ones are still booting and seeing the images successfully, but the new laptops are getting to the list images screen and seeing nothing.

 

The driver must be my issue right?

[anyweb]

could be network driver or HAL related, easiest thing is to update the nic drivers and see

[denisrsd17]

could be network driver or HAL related, easiest thing is to update the nic drivers and see

 

Well, I rebuilt the image with the newest version of the Broadcom driver, and it got to the same spot, where it sees no images.

 

All of my older images are still working ok, so its just these newer laptops. I feel like if it was a driver issue that they wouldnt even get that far to allow me to login and see where the images should be, if the driver was wrong it would fail before that.

 

Any help would be appreciated, Im really struggling with why this won't work when we have been using it on the same model machines for so long.

[denisrsd17]

To close this post, the answer should of been obvious to me but oh well.

 

Celerons are treated as single core processors, and all of the images, even though the same in every way but processor, where marked as multi processor images so they would not show up. Created a new image based on the Celeron machines and everything is go now.

 

Hopefully this can help someone else out.

[anyweb]

thanks for confirming

 

HAL=hardware abstraction layer, different cpu technology (multiprocessor, uniprocessor) use different hals,

 

as you had a different hal it didn't show the image

 

good work