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Hi Everyone,
Hope everyone would be doing good and being safe !!
Need some experience dealing with an issue when we had to import the driver for a certain model in our boot image as they don't PXE boot in the absence of it.
I need the help to know the exact line i should be spotting in SMSTS that could give me an idea of that boot.WIm needs a NIC driver to be imported???
Hope someone's help and experience can benefit me.
Thanking you in advance.
Regards,
Shashi Dubey
The smsts.log generally doesn't reflect this specifically as the driver load process occurs before the task sequence engine loads. Some symptoms do appear in the smsts.log like not being able to communicate properly. The normal distinct symptom is that the system reboots almost immediately after booting to WinPE. Dropping to a command-prompt before the reboot and running ipconfig is a definitive way to determine whether or not an appropriate NIC driver loaded or not.
HI Jason,
Thanks a bunch for your time and expertise on this issue.
What you have mentioned is absolutely true and that's what made us do ipconfig by dropping the command prompt before the system reboot just after loading the boot file and like you said it didn't have the IP to retain.
I have gone through the SMSTS log and the line that caught my attention was "It was unable to download the variable file" with a big red mark on the top of it.
I was hoping to find some specifics line in SMSTS that could give me an indication about the need of NIC in boot file but after your help i would follow the first step and keep the track of it just like that :).
Thanks a bunch for your expertise and help :).
Regards,
Shashi Dubey
The Task Sequence will tell you the assigned boot media, then you go into that boot media and modify it to add the drivers:
https://docs.recastsoftware.com/ConfigMgr-Docs/TaskSequence/ModifyBootImages.html
HI Gary,
After Jason's explanation yes we did use the same process to insert the NIC in the boot image like depicted in the screenshot :).
Thanks a lot for this wonderful pictorial narrative and explanation as it's been super helpful.
Hope to have your time and expertise in the coming time too :).
Regards,
Shashi Dubey