Using bood disk creator

juice99's picture

Hi Everyone,

I am creating an winpe iso with a static ip for a remote server, pointing back to the altiris server. This remote location does not have a dhcp server or a pxe boot.  In order for this to work correctly do I check the box to boot to ramdisk?  Right now it  loads the CD then stalls I reboot and it looks for a pxe/dhcp or boots the cd again and stalls again.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

spazzzen's picture

Where does it stall?

Where does it stall?  Make sure the system has more then 256 mg of ram.

juice99's picture

Its just a config issue the system has 32GB of ram

Hi,

After the first job runs it trys to boot again using DHCP, how do I tell it to either use the iso again.

Also does setting it to ramdisk solve the issue of reusing the iso?

Nelo's picture

RE: Its just a config issue the system has 32GB of ram

If I understand correctly.

1. You created a WinPE automation boot disk with a static IP address

2. A job was assigned to a client, the client booted the iso created in step 1.  The job was executed.

3. A second job did not work because the boot disk (ISO) did not use the static IP address

right?

Any chances you are pointing to a different ISO? 

This could also happen if you have an embedded partition because the client goes into aumation again.

So when booting up change  the boot up sequance and have the CD/DVD to be the first boot. This way u make sure the right ISO booted.

Nelo

 

 

juice99's picture

Nelo you are right

Exactly however it seems that it is picking dhcp even when the cd is before it.  It happens after the first job runs. The altiris client tells it to boot (bios) into automation which then it uses dhcp and pxe.  I want to tell it to boot into ramdisk or iso. Does that make sense?

Nelo's picture

Change the boot sequence in the BIOS

So,

Change the boot order in the BIOS. Make CD/DVD be the first option, Hark Disk, an finally PXE boot last because it is not an option for u. Or press F12(dell) F9 (HP) when booting to pick the boot device?

 

 

juice99's picture

Did that already

Yeah I checked all that bios a stuff lready

 

Now it loads winpe then after it connects to altiris it stated to remove the boot media and reboot, then can not boot into anything, unless I mount the iso again.

Do you know how to create and load a boot disk on a local partition on the remote server? That may fix the issue