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Or Tsemah

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04/10/2008 3:36 AM
Hi, Whenever i try to boot from WDS with an imported WinPE from SCCM i get a restart Looking at the SMSTS.log tells me that the WinPE could not get a Variables.dat file through smsTFTP.exe command Searching the WEB about it found that this error is maybe releated to something called "Portfast" that should be enabled in CISCO router\switches. This allways happen, and because other PXE related WinPE Does work in the environment i suspect maybe this option was not considered to work with only SCCM and WDS (Without the PXE Role, which in turn, has it's limitations) Surly there must be a simple way to get this to work, did someone was able to resolve this without doing some Firmware modifications to network equipment ? Or.

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06/19/2008 9:51 PM
Hi I have sveral customers that do not want the PXE Service Point. They want select the boot media from a boot menu created in WDS. When SCCM 2007 has the PXE role, it take full control of the PXE service point, so it is not possible to use the SCCM 2007 approach, so we need to run the WDS in normal mode. 1. Create an SCCM 2007 installation media 2. Mount the iso file or burn it to a cd 3. Copy the files from the cd to a temp location, in this case c:\Temp 4. To create an image that runs correctly from WDS run these command lines. Imagex.exe /mountrw C:\Temp\Sources\Boot.wim 1 C:\Mount Copy C:\Temp\SMS\DATA\. to C:\Mount\SMS\DATA\ 5. Set Unattended=True in C:\Mount\SMS\DATA\TSMBOOTSTRAP.INI (this can only be done manually) 7. To commit the changes to the wim file run this. imagex /unmount c:\mount /commit 8. Import C:\Temp\Sources\boot.wim to the WDS. Remember to put the boot.wim file in another location first Hope this can help you Ulrik Skadhauge Jensen

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