PXE/WinPE2 boot CD

[vstevenson]

I've got a good one here.

WAN machines can be PXE'd or booted with WinPE2 cd without any issue for the exception of one. Upon a successful PXE with the boot.wim downloaded properly, systems require that I remove the CD......which of course wasn't used in the 1st place nor was it physically in the cd drive.

As Captain Kirk says, "weird or what".

[Chris Nackers]

It means the task sequence you selected has a different boot image assigned to it than the one used during PXE.

[Chris Nackers]

Hope that helps.

[vstevenson]

there's only the one boot image.

[Chris Nackers]

Is this ConfigMgr? What version?

 

Is this physical or VM? You sure you don't have a cd/iso mounted?

[vstevenson]

sp2 r3

VM

absolutely no cd mounted.

and, it's happening to my x86 boot and not my x64

[Chris Nackers]

What boot images are distributed on the PXE Service Point?

What boot image is set for the task seqeunce? (Task Sequence properties)

[vstevenson]

boot images x86 and x64 are on all PXE point servers.

for my XP SP3, i use x86

for my win 7 64 bit enterprise, I use x64.

and to clarify. I pxe the windows XP Sp3 X86 32 bit machine, pick my OS, workstation downloads what it needs, Remove winpe2 cd gui comes up. I OK that and the system reboots and carries on as normal.

[Chris Nackers]

It's probably using the x64 boot media to PXE then, and once you select the XP TS, it's flipping to the x86 boot media. If the system is 64-bit capable, a 64-bit pxe image might be used.

[vstevenson]

so the next question would be, is there a Hotfix or some other way to stop that from happening?

[Chris Nackers]

PXE should use the most recently updated image, try updating your x86 with a new source version and see if that works. (Just an idea, might not work)

 

You need a x64 boot iamge on the PSP for a 64-bit machine to boot, however i want to say it will always use the MOST RECENTLY updated image, but i can't confirm that. Also, you can deploy both x86 and x64 OS's from a x86 boot image, so you don't really need to have a x64 image for TS's, but it needs to be on the PSP in order for pxe to work successfully.

 

Also do you have any mandatory TS's? That will effect the boot image used as well.