after completing a successful RIPREP on a Intel SOLO processor laptop I then decided to PXE boot the machine and RIPREP the image back on to it, however after logging in to the RIS server I could NOT see the RIPREP image that I had just done,
after soom googling (ok, lots) I found out that the
HalName=halmacpi.dll
line in RIPREP.SIF file was causing the image to not be listed. The suggested fix was to delete that line altogether, so I did, saved the file and rebooted. This time it DID list the image but when I chose to use that image shortly afterwords the file copying stopped and I got the following error
Setup cannot copy the operating system image you selected"
"This computer uses a different HAL"
"The signature of the original HAL is ACPI 1.0 Platform UP"
"The signature of your HAL is ACPI 1.0 Platform MP".
So, next I change the
HalName=halmacpi.dll
line to
HalName=halaacpi.dll
to see if that would alleviate the problem, it didnät (yet another error).
After some more googling I found out that RIPREP relies on two files initially to decide what hal to use in setup,
I opened IMirror.dat with notepad and saw that in there it referred to
M u l t i p r o c e s s o r F r e e A C P I 1 . 0 - A P I C p l a t f o r m M P \ M i r r o r 1 \ U s e r D a t a \ D e v i c e \ H a r d d i s k 0 \ P a r t i t i o n 2 m u l t i ( 0 ) d i s k ( 0 ) r d i s k ( 0 ) p a r t i t i o n ( 2 )
I tried to manually edit this to read U n i p r o c e s s o r F r e e A C P I 1 . 0 - A P I C p l a t f o r m U P \ M i r r but that didnt work either.
I knew there were some older machines on this RIS server that most likely were single cpu machines, so I copied the IMirror.dat from one of those machines and replaced my one,
I then started PXE boot to the riprep server again, and this time it WORKED,
this is not a supported hack by any means but it worked for me,
We also used a freeware utility to edit the file by hand (WINHEX 3.x) and manually changed the MULTI to UNI but it didnät work (yet).
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after completing a successful RIPREP on a Intel SOLO processor laptop I then decided to PXE boot the machine and RIPREP the image back on to it, however after logging in to the RIS server I could NOT see the RIPREP image that I had just done,
after soom googling (ok, lots) I found out that the
line in RIPREP.SIF file was causing the image to not be listed. The suggested fix was to delete that line altogether, so I did, saved the file and rebooted. This time it DID list the image but when I chose to use that image shortly afterwords the file copying stopped and I got the following error
So, next I change the
line to
to see if that would alleviate the problem, it didnät (yet another error).
After some more googling I found out that RIPREP relies on two files initially to decide what hal to use in setup,
they are located in
D:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\NEWIMAGE\i386\Mirror1
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...x.mspx?mfr=true
IMirror.dat and BootCode.dat
I opened IMirror.dat with notepad and saw that in there it referred to
M u l t i p r o c e s s o r F r e e A C P I 1 . 0 - A P I C p l a t f o r m M P \ M i r r o r 1 \ U s e r D a t a \ D e v i c e \ H a r d d i s k 0 \ P a r t i t i o n 2 m u l t i ( 0 ) d i s k ( 0 ) r d i s k ( 0 ) p a r t i t i o n ( 2 )
I tried to manually edit this to read U n i p r o c e s s o r F r e e A C P I 1 . 0 - A P I C p l a t f o r m U P \ M i r r but that didnt work either.
I knew there were some older machines on this RIS server that most likely were single cpu machines, so I copied the IMirror.dat from one of those machines and replaced my one,
I then started PXE boot to the riprep server again, and this time it WORKED,
this is not a supported hack by any means but it worked for me,
We also used a freeware utility to edit the file by hand (WINHEX 3.x) and manually changed the MULTI to UNI but it didnät work (yet).
cheers
anyweb
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