Deploy & Capture Issue

[Code Yeti]

First off hello to one and all! hope everyone is have a good (stress free) December! Love all the guides here which are super helpful!!

 

Okay, so the problem. When I try and use the deploy and capture sequence (following the guide) the client gets the PXE request and starts to load up. I see the green loading bar, once that is done I am left with a blank black screen with a white mouse cursor (which is movable telling me the machine hasn't hung).

 

It's as if windows PE loads, but just stops. Any ideas? I've googled myself insane trying to find anyone having the same issue.

 

This is running in a VM (VMware) on a virtual network separated from the physical network, so using a physical machine isn't an option at this time.

[Code Yeti]

Update: It seems as if PE is starting up but doesn't completely start up hence the black screen with a working mouse. Still no clue why it is doing it.

[anyweb]

if you enable command prompt support and press f8 in winpe, what does your SMSTS.log file say about the problem

[Code Yeti]

I enabled the F8 option, however it does nothing. It seems like PE may not be loading entirely? Is there another boot source other than the one packaged with SCCM?

[anyweb]

did you re-distribute the boot images to the distribution points after enabling that option ?

[Code Yeti]

Sure did, even updated it again just to make super sure. I figured I should take a video to show what is happening.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3EvygGB2OM

 

Edit: At the end of the video I am moving the mouse and pressing F8

[Lucid]

So if this is running on a virtual network that is separated from the physical network (which is where I assume your SCCM server reside), do you have things set up to allow the machine to be imaged when it's not on the physical network? Also, is this your first OS deployment (not capture, just trying to verify that your VM settings are correct and the infrastructure is in place), or have you deployed others to your virtual machine?