Remote PXE booting

[tehjrow]

So let's say i've got 3 computers.

Server 2003 (with RIS setup and ready to go)

Vista (workstation i'm using for testing in this scenario)

XP (trying to use RIS to reinstall this one)

When I boot to LAN PXE on my Vista computer, it correctly gets an ip address and starts to remotely boot.

When I boot to LAN PXE on my XP computer, I get this:

It just counts up to 50 and stops. It seems like it's looking for a NetWare server instead of a windows RIS server. I can't find any options in the BIOS to make it do otherwise (just flashed bios). It's got a RTL8139 on-board NIC.

Any suggestions?

[Noise]

Your NIC is configured to boot RPL not PXE. You need to go in to the NIC's setup and configure it for PXE booting.

[tehjrow]

cool. How do I get into nic setup?

[bj-kaiser]

either it displays a hotkey to press during boot or you have to use driver settings or a special setup program for the NIC:

[tehjrow]

the only option I get on boot is press home to boot to hdd. I'll check driver and realteks site later. Thanks!

[Tripredacus]

the only option I get on boot is press home to boot to hdd. I'll check driver and realteks site later. Thanks!

The standard key is Shift+F10. Your window of opportunity is after the summary screen before the PC reads the MBR. And that is if you have an onboard NIC. PCI NICs do not always let you configure them without a boot disk with a program on it.

[tehjrow]

SHIFT + F10 worked, thanks!

[comparch]

my problem is that i am trying to boot diskless clients using wds (WDS is the replacement for RIS in server 2k3 R2) into a terninal services environment. i have tried wtware and tftpd32 but all my problems refer me back to RIS. i then uninstalled wtware (they - wtware, have not tested their software with WDS yet) and used WDS and then created the files using WAIK command prompt. the WDS files are created in a directory called remoteinstall in the root of C:\. all the files i created from using the WAIK command prompt are the same as the ones in the remoteinstall directory. however the files created using WAIK are older than the ones created by WDS, 2006 files as opposed to 2007. i read somewhere that the wdsnbp.com file created by wds needs to be updated due to an inherent problem with the file, but i cannot find a later version anywhere. i also tried the files created from WAIK but got the same problems, see below.

my erros are that when using wdsnbp.com it says the file is not a valid image and if i use pxeboot. com it says the file is not found, both files are in the same directory. by defualt wds puts all the files in a sub dir called x86 off boot. i moved the files to the boot dir and i still get the same error.

any ideas of what i am doing wrong? i have configured all the scope options 60, 66 and 67 correctly and even pointed the default boot image for x86 architecter to the boot folder and not the boot\x86 folder, still with the same results.

any help will be appreciated.

Andy