Capture OS XP Problem

[MacRasta]

Hi people,

 

I've been having this problem for the last week now ... Some help would be appreciated here!

 

What I have done untill now: (and I'll save you all the problems I had to fix before arriving to this point)

 

Installed boot images

installed operating system images

installed operating system install packages

installed drivers & driver packages

installed and updated all DP's

 

What I can do:

 

deploy software packages ...

Push install clients ...

Apply drivers software to OS ...

 

This all works without any problems, it's just capturing the OS that doesn't want to work ...

 

So I've tried 2 different ways to capture the OS:

 

1st thing is following Any's fantastic guide to capture an XP OS, and PXE-boot the client. The client makes contact with SCCM (splash screen), says INITIALIZING WINPE (Windows starting up); then the client restarts and nothing more happens.

 

2nd thing I tried is to get the client to respond to an advertisement to capture and build XP.

At this point, I see that the client is re-installing itself, with the correct NIC-driver, and I have a brand new OS with the correct NIC. But then SCCM wants to install the client, before starting the capture, and there it stops. When googling for that problem, I see that MSGINA.DLL could be a problem. Something about making a back-up of the registry value, and replacing it after the capture is finished... But I can't find a MSGINA registry value, in fact, I can't find any gina entry in the registry ... (there is a GINA.DLL in windows)

 

I feel that I am close to te solution, but can't seem to put the finger on the exact problem. It's been over a week now trying to fix that thing, but to no avail .... I'm so confused right now that I really need some help please ...

What logs can I show you, or should I be looking at? And where to find this SMSTS log (can't find that one on my server either)? It's driving me crazy ...

 

 

Info:

 

 

WIN2008 server with SCCM, SQL, DHCP,

Client: XP SP3

 

Thank a lot ...

[anyweb]

sounds like the nic driver in your boot.wim is not right or not added, can you post your smsts.log file ?

[MacRasta]

Hello Any, thanks for your time. I found the log on the client, not on the server ...

 

I saw somewhere something about CA in that log ... just to be sure I installed the certificate (Site Settings - Certificates - installed the 1 who's not blocked)

 

Thanks again!

smsts.log

[Peter van der Woude]

Are you running Native or Mixed Mode?

[MacRasta]

Are you running Native or Mixed Mode?

 

Thanks for your reply!

 

I'm running Mixed Mode

[MacRasta]

Hi guys,

 

Today again, I tried to capture XP thru an advertisement to the client, and again it re-installed XP on the client with the correct NIC-driver. It just doesn't capture the OS.

What I'm trying at the moment is each time I try to capture the OS, I use another account ... but no account captures the OS. So I think it's not the account that is the problem ...

[Peter van der Woude]

As you are not running in Native Mode, the certificates can't be a problem either.

 

In your log I see gethostbyname failed, this most times indicates problems with DNS and/or DHCP

[MacRasta]

As you are not running in Native Mode, the certificates can't be a problem either.

 

In your log I see gethostbyname failed, this most times indicates problems with DNS and/or DHCP

 

Meneer van der Woude,

 

I think that did it! Or at least I'm a step further.

Problem : DHCP

Expl: as we work only in a fixed-ip environment, I had to set up my DHCP server with a few reservations within our scope, and put a fictive MAC-address to each reserved address. This because we have people here who take their laptops home and there they get an address from their DHCP. So when they come back to work, they'll have to get their fixed IP back in order for their laptop to function in our environment, and not an address issued by my DHCP-server.

So I configured one reserved address with the MAC-address from my client, and sure it PXE-boots. But what didn't I do : I didn't apply my DNS settings in the reservation options for the IP-address I reserved for this operation ... (see attached picture)

 

 

Even if this doesn't work, I'm still very gratefull to you for pointing out this error to me to get me a step further!!

I'll let you guys know how things went ... (going home now)

 

Thanks again!!

[MacRasta]

Goodmorning to y'all!

 

Well, it didn't work ... got a task sequence error 0x00000002. When I look in SMSTS.LOG I still see "unknown host", but I got a lot further than before.

 

Now the installation fails at the "Install Deployment Tools"

 

Other thing I see in the log is "Failed to connect to ""\\MySCCMServer\SMSPKGC$\SMS00029" (53) - No credentials available for connecting to SMSPKGC$ ...

Where do I check these credentials SCCM is using for this part?

 

smsts.log

 

If someone could give me a clue to solve this error plz

 

(PS: That SMSTrace program is really great!)

 

Thanks!

[MacRasta]

One more thing that could be of importance: I didn't extend the AD scheme as I'm not allowed to do that; But I manually added the server in WINS, and manually added the system management container ... Gave everyone full control to that container ...

 

For Your Info

[MacRasta]

Some more info:

 

After the install deployment tools fails, the client restarts and I can see that the NIC is installed with the correct IP I gave. But there's no gateway and no DNS-Suffix in the LAN-properties. The client also enabled the firewall ...

 

I read it could be a driver problem, so I downloaded all possible NIC-drivers for HP DX2420 (XP), and copied the whole SWSETUP-folder from the exact same machine. (For HP, this folder contains all drivers, also the NIC-drivers so this should work) But it hangs at the exact same point ...