Deployment Solution

Hello,

When we use PXE with a new workstation it boots perfectly in PXE. When we try it a second time it failes. The following error occurs:

Altiris pre-select Automation processing
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM

Only solution is to restart the server.

Any ideas?

We are using Deployment Server version 7.1 with Symantec Management Platform 7.0.
 

Once a computer booted into the PXE ,pectagent gets registered with the NS and it becomes a known computer,then it would not go to the PXE unless it has been told to or it has been assigned with any job or task.

As a workaround you can try these.

On the pxe server go to program files\altiris\altiris agent\agents\deployment\sbs\sbsstore

Delete all the contents and restart the Symantec netboot services in the order 1432.

you will be able to see 3 files created ,then try the pxe boot,it should work.

Thanks for you help.

Do you know of this is fixed in a higher release?

Not exactly but 7.5 is expected to have lot of changes with regards to PXE and Deployment solution.

Soo, in short, this isn't an error, but rather, it's our services saying "don't have anything for you" and your system not being able to boot to an OS.  I'm assuming there is no pre-built OS on these, right?  If there was, you'd probably NOT see this message because it'd be gone so fast.

So the previous post indicated that the system was "known" and that's true.  That would indicate that for some reason, BEFORE you re-imaged it, you rebooted it again.

You could delete it from the console AND restart the SBS services...

OR

You could simply assign a boot to PXE task to the computer that is now showing up in the console.  The latter is easier.

And the answer is correct about DS 7.5.  It will both have more options for responding to PXE, and loose the "computer is remembered" feature of our services that require they be restarted.  However, it's not available until later this year, I think Q4, but not sure, so you sorta have to get along without it for a while.

Thomas,

Can you clarify the following:

"You could simply assign a boot to PXE task to the computer that is now showing up in the console.  The latter is easier".

I have tried to assign a Reboot to PXE task but it did not work. I have tried it on a known client.

Thanks for you previous post; it clarifies a lot!

Hi;

Good to hear it's a feature and not a configuration error. Looking forward to 7.5

For what it's worth; I am using a simple script to restart PXE.

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net stop _Symantec_Netboot_Mtftp
net stop _Symantec_Netboot_Server
net start _Symantec_Netboot_Mtftp
net start _Symantec_Netboot_Server
net start _Symantec_Netboot_NSISignal

Thank you Klaas. We use the same sort of script.