Problems imaging unregistered Evo workstations with PXE 1

[patrick340]

I wondering if anybody has any suggestions on this. I have a bunch of EVO workstations that are about a year. The workstations are not registered. I'm using IP rules for imaging. When I boot the older workstations PXE will start I get a DHCP address and just when the linux partition should come down it stops. I am able to get this working on a EVO that is a month old with the same hardware. When I boot that imaging works great. I'm wondering if the BIOS needs to be flashed or is there a certain version of PXE that needs to be on the older workstations. Any ideas?

 

[NS1878]

Hi. Where you able to resolve your problem? and how?

 

[Provogeek]

Have you tried forcing it?

if you press and hold CTRL - ALT, it will force the system to bot from network, you can then do a manual image of the workstation

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[patrick340]

Thanks for your help there was a setting for CTRL ALT on the image so when I did CTRL ALT the image came down.

 

[vale2]

i've seen something on novell forum:

http://support-forums.novell.com/gr...9+3479-3479+3442+3422-3422+3422/@article@3422

i hope it can help you!

 

[benbailes]

I didn't see anything obvious in all of the documentation I read about implementing PXE about holding ctrl + alt to force the imaging server to let an unregestered machine in.

THANK YOU provogeek. I wish I'd found this posting before. I'd have torn a little less of my hair out.

I had everything working as long as I had a registered workstation object...I've been tearing through my policies, etc. to figure this out. So simple!

Thanks again.

Ben