MDT 2010 Client restarting prior Task sequence

[Garfunko]

Hi there,

 

Here is a little history of my siuation:

 

I have been deployment Windows 7 images for just over a month, so my experience is limited. I've had sucess deployment images until this point. I wanted to have a french image, and so I captured the image in the following fashion:

 

1) booted up a computer with the windows 7 in french and with the slight corrections I made to preferences etc.

2) access the MDT deployment share by the UNC path and ran the lite touch deployment script and ran the capture from there.

 

I orginally had issues, because I needed to remove the Domain information in the MDT 2010 rules section, as well as SkipCapture=no, and SkipTaskSequence=no. Since then, I was able to capture the image and no problem.

 

Then in MDT 2010 work bench, I created a new Operating System, under Custom and browsed to the .wim capture file that was just created. I also browsed to the set-up files of the OS, which I extracted from a win 7 CD. I hadnt done this before in my first attempt, and it gave me a error message during the deployment saying it was missing set-up files. I then read I needed to include these files which I did.

 

I updated the deployment share, and prepared to deploy this new french image. However, the computer after the PXE boot, restarts just before I see the task sequence screen. I have a custome background, and I can see that. I can ping the MDT server no problem.

 

I read to press F8 to enter CMD, and to access the log files however I dont have any at this point.

 

Another thing to note, is I needed to create a new model in Out of the box drivers for the dell model laptop that had the french OS. I added the network drivers, display and audio in their own subfolder.

 

I am out of ideas and I need to get this working soon.

 

Any ideas guys?

[WinOutreach4]

Since you are still new to deployments, I will ask a basic question… Did you update your deployment share and regenerate the boot images after adding the new drivers to MDT? Any time that you add drivers that would be needed by the Windows PE image, you will need to update the deployment share and while it is not always required, regenerating the boot images will ensure that the changes are applied to those boot images.

 

I would also like to give you a helpful tip for the log files. Create a folder in your deployment share named Logs. If you put the SLShare setting in your customsettings.ini (Rules) like this: SLShare=\\<servername>\<deploymentshare>\logs (putting in the actual address to your deployment share), then MDT will create a folder for each computer you deploy to (by computer name) and copy all the log files to that location. You can find this setting in the MDT help files.

 

 

 

David

 

Windows Outreach Team – IT Pro