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  • 1.  PowerQuest Unicast service and PXE booting

    Posted Apr 13, 2007 12:03 PM
    I have several old PQUEST images that we need to access on occasion. Reading through the GSS 2.0 guide I decided to use the Unicast service with a PXE boot floppy image.
     
    I got the service running on the server. I then created a boot floppy image using the NDIS PXE driver. The wizard had me put in the IP for the unicast server and I chose to run image center from the boot floppy.
     
    When I boot to the new floppy image through PXE, the image center client starts to load but fails with:
     
    Error 91
     
    "Disk Manager has been detected on Drive 0 but Disk Manager is not running. If booting from a floppy disk, remove disk and reboot. Press spacebar key and reinsert floppy disk when prompted...."
     
     
    Does anyone know what this error is talking about? Obviously since I am using PXE I will not be able to insert floppy when prompted and I am not sure what this error is referring to to troiubleshoot.
     
    Thanks 


  • 2.  RE: PowerQuest Unicast service and PXE booting

    Posted Apr 13, 2007 03:19 PM
    Well I seem to have gotten past the first problem by deleting any partitions on the disk before booting. Now I have another problem:
     
    I can't browse to the image server to select the image. I have the image server showing in my drop down selection list but when I select it there is a long pause before it says "device isn't ready" sometimes it just reboots my client computer without any error. I have the server IP specified in the boot floppy and i have the path to my images configured in the start up parameters of the SERVICE on the server. I verified that the service is running also.


  • 3.  RE: PowerQuest Unicast service and PXE booting

    Posted Apr 19, 2007 07:02 PM
    Hi Chris,

    You should have no problems accessing and browsing for images on your unicast server. It maybe something to do with the network card driver under DOS. One thing to try is to manually run DCL Powercast server and to then run pqideploy and/or ImgCenter under DOS and connect to multicast session of the server. You should be able to receive and restore an image without any issues but if you do - at least this will point to the driver.

    You can manually edit your virtual floppies and add pqideploy to it using DCL tool VF editor. PqiDeploy is pretty much a UI-less version of ImgCenter and it will provide you with debug and error logs (using additional switches) and can do everything ImgCenter can do.