Deployment Solution

OK, did I mis something or is there an real issue out there.

I am building an image for my new fleet of Dell Latituide E6400 machines (Intel NIC chipset) and surprise, they are not happy with PXE (Altiris DS 6.8 SP2 - 378). I have 2 other machines on the same 4 port hub taht are pisking up the PXE boot file just fine, so I know my PXE server and DS are still happy. Yet none of my E6400 laptops are able to boot to PXE.


All is normal till I see the DHCP .../ and after a few seconds I get:
PXE-E53: No Boot file name received


Anyone else seeing this, anyone have a solution?
I am using a traditional DOS boot file with the default UNDI driver.

I don't believe your system has gotten to the driver issue point. Your machine seems to be rejecting the PXE. How about your BIOS settings for the E600 boot sequence and security? I have, however, never seen this error unless PXE was not delivering the file because of a server problem.

BIOS is nothing special. From the Factory I have Dell simply enable PXE, make the NIC the first boot device and then set my SATA mode to ATA. I have 2 E6400's that came with default BIOS settings and when I hit F12 for the 1 time boot menu, I still get the same error.

They are all BIOS REV 11. I'm in the queue with support now. I'll let you know what I get from them.

Known issue in DS 6.8 and 6.9

https://kb.altiris.com/display...id=37671&n=1&s=&link=#