pankajtakawale Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Im trying n/w booting windows PE 2.0 using PXE.I followed all steps mentioned in WAIK "Deploy Image by using PXE"I configured DHCP server and tftp server on same server (no need of 3rd party pxe server in this case)I copied all windows PE files to \\PXEServer\TFTPRoot\Boot\ .On PXEServer I configured TFTPD servers Directory registry entry [directory to search for Boot File] to C:\pt\TFTPRoot\Boot dir \\PXEServer\TFTPRoot\ :-tftpd.exeBoot Directorydir \\PXEServer\TFTPRoot\Boot :-12/02/2006 06:19p <DIR> .12/02/2006 06:19p <DIR> ..07/27/2006 03:16a 79 abortpxe.com12/02/2006 04:28p 262,144 BCD07/27/2006 04:16a 3,170,304 boot.sdi08/30/2006 03:01p 414,776 bootmgr.exe07/28/2006 12:04a 25,356 hdlscom1.com07/28/2006 12:04a 25,340 hdlscom1.n1207/28/2006 12:04a 25,356 hdlscom2.com07/28/2006 12:05a 25,340 hdlscom2.n1207/28/2006 12:05a 25,052 pxeboot.com07/28/2006 12:05a 25,052 pxeboot.n1207/28/2006 12:26a 333 WdsConfig.inf07/28/2006 12:26a 27,612 wdsnbp.com08/30/2006 05:21p 160,874,081 winpe.wim 13 File(s) 164,900,825 bytes 2 Dir(s) 6,644,346,880 bytes freeI configured Boot File in DHCP server as pxeboot.com.While n/w booting, client machine can not locate \boot\BCD.PXE client is searching for "boot" folder in \\PXEServer\TFTPRoot\Boot , so I created "boot" folder under it and copied all files in this folder. It worked, but i dont want to keep redudant copies in 2 folders.So I tried following configuration:- tftpd's Directory registry entry [boot file directory] to C:\pt\TFTPRoot\- only pxeboot.com in \\PXEServer\TFTPRoot\ and all other pxe files in \\PXEServer\TFTPRoot\Boot\.It doesnt work, Client displays error "Tftp Download failed"I think changing BCD configurations would solve the problem. Can any one please point me to appropriate link or suggest any solution?Pankaj. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazkal Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 We had the same problem. I don't remember off hand how we fixed it, but come Monday I will ask our Linux Dev that found the fix, about it. I'll let you know on Monday what he says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazkal Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 ok, make sure the Boot folder has a capital "B". And that the BCD file is all capitals.Also check your /var/log/messages. You may have to lookup how to do the "TFTP slash hack", it's where "\" are converted to "/" or something like that. Sorry I don't have more info, but I'm not a linux guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pankajtakawale Posted December 5, 2006 Author Share Posted December 5, 2006 ok, make sure the Boot folder has a capital "B". And that the BCD file is all capitals.Also check your /var/log/messages. You may have to lookup how to do the "TFTP slash hack", it's where "\" are converted to "/" or something like that. Sorry I don't have more info, but I'm not a linux guy.Thanks for your reply.My tftp server is running on windows. I have already capital B, & capital BCD. Regarding logging - i searched in logs in Tftp current directory & event logs - but no luck. Im using microsofts tftpd.exe (C:\windows\system32\dllcache\) to run TFTP server.I will try using any other open-source TFTP server which supports logging. If you know logging mechanism of above mentioned tftpd would be helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazkal Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 (edited) can you post your BCD config?bcdedit -store %FULLPATH%\BCDEDIT: You can run bcdedit from Vista or PE2. Edited December 5, 2006 by Jazkal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pankajtakawale Posted December 6, 2006 Author Share Posted December 6, 2006 can you post your BCD config?bcdedit -store %FULLPATH%\BCDEDIT: You can run bcdedit from Vista or PE2.C:\winpe_x86\mount\Windows\System32>bcdedit.exe /store C:\BCDWindows Boot Manager--------------------identifier {bootmgr}description Windows VISTA BootManagerdisplayorder {cf06fe6c-820a-11db-bf00-000c29ab100f}timeout 30Windows Boot Loader-------------------identifier {cf06fe6c-820a-11db-bf00-000c29ab100f}device ramdisk=[boot]\Boot\WinPE.wim,{ramdiskoptions}description MyWinPE Boot Imageosdevice ramdisk=[boot]\Boot\WinPE.wim,{ramdiskoptions}systemroot \Windowsdetecthal Yeswinpe Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazkal Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 The only thing I see that "may" be a problem, is the name of your wim file. Try naming it exactly like what the BCD config file shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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