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Tuesday, January 14, 2014 2:15 PM
When trying to deploy OS using PXE the client machine gets to the window where it shows "Initializing Windows PE" and "Windows is starting up..." However it never gets past this point. I've left it overnight hoping it would eventually get past this but no luck. Not sure which log file I should be looking at for further troubleshooting. Thank You
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Thursday, January 16, 2014 1:04 AM ✅Answered
You can use notepad to open the smmts.log -- it's just a text file.
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com
Thursday, January 16, 2014 9:56 AM ✅Answered
I've downloaded the drivers for the Intel E1000 NIC that the vm is using and created the driver package and added it to the x86 boot image. VM still gets stuck at Initialinzing Windows PE. Command support is enabled on the boot image and I can see the SMSTS log file is there but I have no way of accessing it or copying it somewhere to view it.
WinPE has cmtrace By default, so hit F8, type cmtrace and open smsts.log from C:\Windows\Temp with it. Cmtrace is much-much better than notepad!
E1000 is a good choice for NIC in VMware, done that myself. Another common reason could be disk driver, you may want to try it By chaninging defauls scsi to IDE inside that VM.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:55 PM
Any details? Which hardware / VM was used? Which boot image (architecture and version)? Have you added any drivers? etc
Torsten Meringer | http://www.mssccmfaq.de
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:01 PM
This is a VM running on VMWare. The TS is using the x86 boot image. I didn't add any additional drivers. The NIC it's using in VMWare is E1000. Thank You
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 5:26 PM
Which version of VMWare?
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 5:28 PM
Hi we're running VMWare 5.1
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 3:44 PM
I've downloaded the drivers for the Intel E1000 NIC that the vm is using and created the driver package and added it to the x86 boot image. VM still gets stuck at Initialinzing Windows PE. Command support is enabled on the boot image and I can see the SMSTS log file is there but I have no way of accessing it or copying it somewhere to view it.