Ghost Solution Suite

Just did a fresh intstall of GSS 3.1.  Added Win PE 10. Created a stand alone boot disk (USB).  When booting from the USB key I get a DOS screen ...  and that's it ...

Here's what the screen says:

Please wait while GSS WinPE 10.0.14393.0 Pre-boot Automation Environment (DISK boot) loads ...

Initializing Windows PE 10.0.14393.0...

Locating boot drive...

  Found boot drive D:\ in registry:CurrentControlSet

Calling custom actions ...

​Startup Complete.

Am I missing something?  My previous version of Ghost (11.5) gave me me a number of options to create or recover an image.

Thanks

Jason 

Jason,

Based on what you are experiencing it looks as if the ghost.exe binaries are not included in your boot disk. This commonly happens when an OEM extention is not set during the boot disk setup. Please check this as shown in the below screenshot (OEM extention field).

Please follow the below guides on creating a boot disk. 

Tutorials are here

How To Import Preboot Operating Systems Into Ghost Solution Suite 3 (Standard Tools Installation)
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/how-import-preboot-operating-systems-ghost-solution-suite-3-standard-tools-installation

4. Create a boot disk:

Creating Boot Media For Legacy Ghostcasting With Ghost Solution Suite 3.1
http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/creating-boot-media-legacy-ghostcasting-ghost-solution-suite-31-standard-tools

Not seeing where I can select the OEM extention;

I'm seeing near-identical behaviour since upgrading to MP3 - using configs created in previous versions that worked previously. Busy time of year doing lab replacements so I hadn't got round to reporting to Symantec support yet but convinced it's a bug.

The Automation environment that PXE uses is fine at least so for the time being I've remade all our automation boot sticks by copying that image over.

I see the issue here...

You are trying to create a standalone boot disk from the Ghost Solution Suite 3.1 boot disk creator. The guides I sent are for Ghost Standard Tools.

In the GSS 3.1 boot disk creator : When creating a standalone boot disk the ghost.exe binaries are not included within the configuration. The default setting here is to use automation setting and this pulls down the ghost binaries. If you want this to be stand alone, you will need to add the ghost32.exe and ghost64.exe binaries to your boot disk configuration, located at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\Ghost\ghost64.exe" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\Ghost\ghost32.exe".

Then in your startup.bat file enter the below text..

x:

cd /ghost

if exist ghost32.exe (start ghost32.exe) else (start ghost64.exe) 

Save your statup.bat file and then recreate your boot disk as a standlone boot disk.