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Answered Cannot connect to deployment share after pixie

  • Wednesday, October 03, 2012 2:09 PM
     
     
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    I have been using MDT for some time now and have never seen this problem before. I initiate a network boot and I get the Microsoft splash screen, after approximately 15 seconds it goes off and the computer starts a normal windows start up. It never reaches the point to connect to the deployment share. I received no error message. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

    /Bob

     

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  • Wednesday, October 03, 2012 2:46 PM
     
     
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    Hi Bob,

    To start with we'll need some additional information.

    • Is this different hardware than the hardware that it used to work with previously?
    • If it's different hardware, did you include additional drivers required for this make/model?
    • Have you made any changes to the bootstrap.ini file and updated the boot images?
    • If you updated the boot images, did you replace the old boot images on your pxe server (gonna assume WDS)

    Something I sometimes use to test issues with boot images that I can't explain is to comment out the deployroot variable in the bootstrap.ini file and regenerate the image so I have to do the first few steps manually.

    Also using F8 opens up the command prompt which you can use to open up the various log files created by WinPE and the MDT logs.

    Kind regards,

    Stephan

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  • Wednesday, October 03, 2012 2:53 PM
     
     
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    Stephan,

    Thanks for the fast response, I need it! I'll try to be brief. I used MDT yesterday on the same model machine. The image wasn't correct so I deleted the deploy sequence along with the wim file for that specific computer. I then made my configurations on the client machine, syspreped and captured the image without any error messages. Created the deploy sequence again, pixie booted. Got to the MS Solution Accelerator screen, it then goes off and the machine attempts to load the OS. No error messages, like unable to access the deployment share, nothing. I made no changes to the bootstrap.ini file. This is weird! I made no other configurations other than to the specific image. We know it's not pxe because it connects, I just can't get to the log in screen for deployment. Any suggestions, other than getting out of IT, would be appreciated.

    /Bob

     
  • Wednesday, October 03, 2012 3:03 PM
     
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    Could you test out the following please?

    Start into WinPE, run diskpart with the following commands:

    • Sel Disk 0
    • Clean

    Reboot into the MDT boot image and see if it works properly.

    Kind regards,

    Stephan Schwarz

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    • Marked As Answer by Burntout Wednesday, October 03, 2012 3:13 PM
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  • Wednesday, October 03, 2012 3:14 PM
     
     
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    Stephan,

    You are "Da Man", thank's so much. It started right up after the cleaning.

    /Bob