I am trying to use WDS to roll out a few hundred XP SP3 systems. I have had good luck with several systems, including some white box Asus M2N-MX SE Plus, Lenov G530s and HP2140 netbooks. However on one system, a 2GoPC, which uses Intels Classmate reference design, I am having a problem.
I have booted up the client XP machine and configured the network boot priority in the bios. The client gets an IP / establishes TFTP connection and then I pressed F12 to trigger the boot from WDS. The computer has a white loading bar and the WDS server IP at the bottom of the screen which completes to 100%. The Windows PE rotating green bar on black background is then shown followed by the WinPE background with a message saying Please Wait. I then get the following error message:
WDS Client: an error occurred while obtaining an IP address from the DHCP Server. Please check to ensure there is an operational DHCP server on this network segment.
I press shift + F10 to load a command prompt and type IP config /ALL which shows no network adapters.
I try to run drvload.exe e:\Netrtle.inf and it fails to load. I get the message...Unable to load e:\driver.netrtle.inf (error 0x80070103)
Any suggestions?
Dave
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If the driver can't load on the WinPE client using the drvload.exe program, should I try to inject that same driver into the boot.wim on the WDS server?
I looked for realtek 8136 vista drivers and the ones I found would load on the WinPE client using the drvload.exe and I could run the wpeutil Initializenetwork command but I still couldn't get a DCHP lease.
Dave
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by: ecsrdPosted on 2009-08-12 at 20:42:10ID: 25085308
That looks like your WDS server is missing the appropriate driver for those stations. As it is WinPE, check for an up to date Windows Vista (x86 or x64 depending on what you're loading) driver for the clients and configure WDS to use that driver for those stations.