Multi-Platform Image Help

[drewdavis1]

Hello Everyone, I just found this forum yesterday and it has been a great help already.

Here is a question for all of you...

In the past at our company (Using W2K) we always created a single image (using ghost and sysprep) for our Dell GX270 and GX280 desktops by creating our image on one platform, pulling it down on the other, updating the drivers, then pushing it back to the server. Well now (finally!) we are rolling out XP and working to create new images. I created an image on a GX280 and when I pull it down on a GX270 it just goes to the boot options page (Safe mode, last known good, etc).

We also have the same probelm when we tried to create an image for our D600 and D610 laptops.

I'm sure this is an easy fix and that i'm just doing something wrong but i would appericate any help!

Thanks!!!!

[mmarable]

Well, it isn't going to work on the D600 and D610 laptops because, if I remember correctly, the 610 requires a different HAL than the 600 does. So the images are incompatible.

I'm not too familiar with the GX270s and 280s, so I can't really say for sure, but I think the 270s use a uniprocessor HAL while the 280s use the ACPI HAP. So the images will have to be different.

[Joe User 99]

No, the images don't have to be different.

Create the image on the OLDEST system you will be using.

I came across this same problem when I tried creating my image on a GX280.

(If you install XP directly to a GX280, it will use the multiprocessor ACPI HAL, which won't work on uniprocessor systems, however if you image the GX280 with a image created with the standard ACPI HAL, it will still work.)

Instead, I built our XP image on a GX110, and we are using it on GX110's, GX150's, GX260's, GX270's, GX280's, GX520's and Lattitude C810's, D505's, and D510's.

It's a slow painful experience to do it this way, but it allows us a single image.

Edited January 20, 2006 by Joe User 99