Strange Issue with SCCM 2007 boot image

[arvin]

Hi there,

 

I am having a very strange issue with my environment. I am sure the experts here will be able to help me. Please bare with me as I am quite new with SCCM.

 

I have an SCCM 2007 SP2 with R3 installed.

The default boot images are still available and I created two others.

 

WINPE3.0 drivers were added to both x86 and x64 boot images.

Two TS were created using x64 and x86 boot image to capture and build images.

 

Problem:

If I boot using VM machine (both x86 and x64), it boots correctly into the PE and prompt me for the protected password, build and capture the image with no issue.

 

However, If I use physical machines with the same TS (x86), it boots fine into the PE, but it just sits there and eventually it will reboot. Press F8 and tried to run "tsbootshell", the windows comes up and then disappeared.

 

If I boot it using the 64bit TS, it worked fine.

 

Does anyone know what's going on? Am I missing anything? Drivers? or???

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Update:

 

It appears to be network driver issue I believe.

When I run ipconfig, it comes up with no IP address.

However, I had added all network drivers already into the boot images already though.

 

Does anyone know how?

[Eswar Koneti]

what model are you running with X86 hardware ?

did u check pxe log from siteserver if somehtin went wrong ?

[arvin]

Hi Eswar, Thanks for replying

 

I uses their WINPE3.0 Driver pack (.cab) but it didn't covers it I guess.

I downloaded their CAB driver file also and I did notice that those Intel drivers failed to get injected with error saying the platform are not supported for both x86 and x64.

 

I am not too sure why though.

 

I did try to find where those pxe logs are, but couldn't find any. Could you point me to the right direction?

[arvin]

Problem Resolved and Information below for anyone who might need it.

 

It turns out to be driver issue indeed.

Firstly, I was having problem injecting "some" drivers into my boot image despite the instruction says I only need the WinPE3.0 driver set. So I thought perhaps the drivers aren't enough, therefore tried to inject more from Intel, Dell and whatever you can name it.

 

However, after making my boot image huge and slow, it still refuses to work!!!

 

Did a quick search on why drivers gets refused from entering into the driver, I found the following patch from Microsoft. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978754

The whole reason why these drivers were rejected because they are signed for Windows 7 OS in SCCM only and therefore TS failed because of it.

 

So I applied the patch, removed all imported drivers, import only the WINPE3.0 drivers and it works beautifully. Hooray!!!