Sysprep and DevicePath - why won't drivers install?

[RHMMMM]

I would really appreciate any help with this:

I'm creating a HII and am having a heck of a time getting drivers to load. I would use the driverpacks, but the image size is an issue and can't include all of them.

I'm building the image on a Dell Optiplex 755. The only driver I loaded was the AHCI SATA driver during the Windows install. All of the other devices were unrecognized and I left them that way. I made my changes to the image.

I have all the drivers and have (manually) enumerated the DevicePath key in the registry - of course I found the Vernalex program after I did it by copying the paths into notepad. I was going to use the OemPnPDriversPath line, but unfortunately, in my org, the drivers HAVE to be on the D: drive - so I did the DevicePath key.

I ran sysprep -mini -reseal. When the machine booted back up, nothing changed. All of the unrecognized devices were still unrecognized. BUT, if I told Device Manager to update the driver, it found the correct one automatically (thru the DevicePath key, I assume.

Should I be running sysprep with the -pnp switch?

I have already seen this post:

http://www.msfn.org/board/Forcing-PnP-Enum...p;hl=devicepath

Should I run that command (RunDll32.exe Syssetup.dll,UpdatePnpDeviceDrivers) in a GUIRunOnce script?

I'm baffled as to why the devices didn't auto detect during sysprep. They are all PnP - doesn't sysprep force a driver redetect? Or is that only with the -PnP switch? I thought the -PnP switch was only for nonPnP device detection?

Thanks for any help!

[kickarse]

I would really appreciate any help with this:

I'm creating a HII and am having a heck of a time getting drivers to load. I would use the driverpacks, but the image size is an issue and can't include all of them.

I'm building the image on a Dell Optiplex 755. The only driver I loaded was the AHCI SATA driver during the Windows install. All of the other devices were unrecognized and I left them that way. I made my changes to the image.

I have all the drivers and have (manually) enumerated the DevicePath key in the registry - of course I found the Vernalex program after I did it by copying the paths into notepad. I was going to use the OemPnPDriversPath line, but unfortunately, in my org, the drivers HAVE to be on the D: drive - so I did the DevicePath key.

I ran sysprep -mini -reseal. When the machine booted back up, nothing changed. All of the unrecognized devices were still unrecognized. BUT, if I told Device Manager to update the driver, it found the correct one automatically (thru the DevicePath key, I assume.

Should I be running sysprep with the -pnp switch?

I have already seen this post:

http://www.msfn.org/board/Forcing-PnP-Enum...p;hl=devicepath

Should I run that command (RunDll32.exe Syssetup.dll,UpdatePnpDeviceDrivers) in a GUIRunOnce script?

I'm baffled as to why the devices didn't auto detect during sysprep. They are all PnP - doesn't sysprep force a driver redetect? Or is that only with the -PnP switch? I thought the -PnP switch was only for nonPnP device detection?

Thanks for any help!

Sysprep must also be run with sysprep -bmsd before it's run with sysprep -mini -reseal. You also must specify all your mass storage drivers in the section SysprepMassStorage. You also must put in the Unattended section the below:

[UnAttended]
...
UpdateInstalledDrivers = Yes
DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore

This will tell Sysprep to update the drivers from the location(s) you told it in the registry key Devicepath. You are correct in assuming you don't use the parameter -pnp. IF all of your drivers are correctly enumerated and imported into the registry then Sysprep will install the drivers for you.

But, I don't know if Sysprep just doesn't like that it's on a separate partition. I would try on root and the separate partition.

Also, if you're using Vernalex's scanner don't let it search Windows\INF and see if that makes a difference. OR put it at the end of the line instead of the beginning in DevicePath.

[RHMMMM]

Thanks for the advice, I'll try it tomorrow and update the thread. I'm also going to try some other things I found.

If anyone else has more insight, by all means, I'd appreciate it.

[RHMMMM]

So the advice above worked, plus I used the Vernalex driver scanner.

Thanks!

[chiefwigms]

anyone solve this? i'm in the same boat with a poweredge 2900. any help is appreciated