Missing RIS Images?

[Ben]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup_deployment,microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment (More info?)

Hi,

I've setup a couple of RIS servers over the past 2 - 3 years, each with out
problems. The last server was on a secondary domain controller, which has
now been removed. So yesterday I tried installing it on a domain member
server. The install went fine, however when I tried booting the client PCs I
kept getting an error
PXE-E53 No boot filename received.
After googling this error I found that you had to enter 2 options in the
DHCP scope (66 boot server & 67 bootfile name). Now I never had to do this
on the other RIS installs, why is it different now? Is it because I'm
running RIS on a member server and not a domain controller?
Anyway after configuring these 2 options I found I could PXE boot and get
the RIS setup running. I have created 3 images, one cd based for windows xp,
one cd based for windows 2000, and one windows 2000 riprep image. However
now the problem is that when I boot into the RIS client setup, I am only
being presented with the 2 cd based images, and not the riprep image. I've
read kb289638 on microsoft, however I don't think this is a HAL problem, the
riprep image was created on a dell optiplex gx200 workstation, and is being
RISed to 2 other Dell optiplex gx200 workstations, and all 3 have been
installed using RIS from riprep images in the past when we has RIS on the
domain controller previously.
Anyone have any ideas why I can't see the riprep image? Could it be a
permissions thing? I'm logging on as the same user as I created the images
with!

Any help much appreciated

Ben

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup_deployment,microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment (More info?)

A RIS image will often be hidden when the HAl is different........ Maybe you
Riprep'd the image with a \different HAL? Midproduction run change on the
board? OR (and I have done this) The first one you created the image on had
ACPI turned off in the bios and therefore used a non acpi HAL......

Just a few suggestions........ you can always do a clean install on one of
the problem machines, RipRep it and see what HAL is shows in the SIF file,
then compare it to the original image.....

--
Bruce
Cedar Hill. Tx
32.5916391 -96.973325


"Ben" <bjblackmore@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Otpq8UBwFHA.664@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I've setup a couple of RIS servers over the past 2 - 3 years, each with
> out problems. The last server was on a secondary domain controller, which
> has now been removed. So yesterday I tried installing it on a domain
> member server. The install went fine, however when I tried booting the
> client PCs I kept getting an error
> PXE-E53 No boot filename received.
> After googling this error I found that you had to enter 2 options in the
> DHCP scope (66 boot server & 67 bootfile name). Now I never had to do this
> on the other RIS installs, why is it different now? Is it because I'm
> running RIS on a member server and not a domain controller?
> Anyway after configuring these 2 options I found I could PXE boot and get
> the RIS setup running. I have created 3 images, one cd based for windows
> xp, one cd based for windows 2000, and one windows 2000 riprep image.
> However now the problem is that when I boot into the RIS client setup, I
> am only being presented with the 2 cd based images, and not the riprep
> image. I've read kb289638 on microsoft, however I don't think this is a
> HAL problem, the riprep image was created on a dell optiplex gx200
> workstation, and is being RISed to 2 other Dell optiplex gx200
> workstations, and all 3 have been installed using RIS from riprep images
> in the past when we has RIS on the domain controller previously.
> Anyone have any ideas why I can't see the riprep image? Could it be a
> permissions thing? I'm logging on as the same user as I created the images
> with!
>
> Any help much appreciated
>
> Ben
>

 

[Ben]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup_deployment,microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment (More info?)

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for the reply. I think I figured out what it was, there must have
been an error in the SIF file. As all the PCs are identical, and have been
RISed from each other previously, I was 99.9% sure it wasn't a HAL problem.
So I started up sysprep again on another PC and created another image. When
I booted the other PCs the image was visible. Copied the riprep.sif file
from the working image to the non-working image, rebooted the PCs and it was
visible!
Strange that it wasn't visible when initially created!

Cheers

Ben


"Bruce Musgrove" <blackhole26removeme@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:OrFg%23NLwFHA.684@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>A RIS image will often be hidden when the HAl is different........ Maybe
>you Riprep'd the image with a \different HAL? Midproduction run change on
>the board? OR (and I have done this) The first one you created the image
>on had ACPI turned off in the bios and therefore used a non acpi HAL......
>
> Just a few suggestions........ you can always do a clean install on one
> of the problem machines, RipRep it and see what HAL is shows in the SIF
> file, then compare it to the original image.....
>
> --
> Bruce
> Cedar Hill. Tx
> 32.5916391 -96.973325
>
>
> "Ben" <bjblackmore@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Otpq8UBwFHA.664@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've setup a couple of RIS servers over the past 2 - 3 years, each with
>> out problems. The last server was on a secondary domain controller, which
>> has now been removed. So yesterday I tried installing it on a domain
>> member server. The install went fine, however when I tried booting the
>> client PCs I kept getting an error
>> PXE-E53 No boot filename received.
>> After googling this error I found that you had to enter 2 options in the
>> DHCP scope (66 boot server & 67 bootfile name). Now I never had to do
>> this on the other RIS installs, why is it different now? Is it because
>> I'm running RIS on a member server and not a domain controller?
>> Anyway after configuring these 2 options I found I could PXE boot and get
>> the RIS setup running. I have created 3 images, one cd based for windows
>> xp, one cd based for windows 2000, and one windows 2000 riprep image.
>> However now the problem is that when I boot into the RIS client setup, I
>> am only being presented with the 2 cd based images, and not the riprep
>> image. I've read kb289638 on microsoft, however I don't think this is a
>> HAL problem, the riprep image was created on a dell optiplex gx200
>> workstation, and is being RISed to 2 other Dell optiplex gx200
>> workstations, and all 3 have been installed using RIS from riprep images
>> in the past when we has RIS on the domain controller previously.
>> Anyone have any ideas why I can't see the riprep image? Could it be a
>> permissions thing? I'm logging on as the same user as I created the
>> images with!
>>
>> Any help much appreciated
>>
>> Ben
>>
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