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Windows 7 PE Boot not restarting through installation

  • 1.  Windows 7 PE Boot not restarting through installation

    Posted Jan 04, 2017 07:13 AM

    Hi all, wondering if anyone has seen anything similiar with the deployment jobs in altiris 8.0 that seems to be driving me mad at the moment.

    I have tasks setup that work brilliantly if you start them all from within PE manually, everything works fine. Windows setup reboots at the correct time for setup to carry on. The support desk prefer to boot the machine into PE and then use the menus from there to start the jobs.

    Just trying to setup some tasks to reimage a machine thats currently turned on, and the windows 7 setup.exe is starting with /noreboot /unattend which i believe is stopping the installation halfway through and leaving it sitting in PE. The only thing I am changing is adding a boot to PE command at the start, I dont understand how its changing how the OS install job works!

    I have had this working in 7.5 or 7.6 before with no problems, and I do rememeber somthing about the install reboot process being changed in the HF notes at some point but its been so long I just cant remember where. Ive just been through all the documentation but cant find it anywhere.

    I cant use a restart command at the end as it doesnt register that the install job has even begun at this point either.. :/

    Any ideas?

     

    Thanks,