SOLVED ISSUE WITH OSD

[Shibalik Sanyal]

Hi Prajwal,

I am trying to deploy Windows 7 to a bare metal in my test lab. I am booting my computer with PXE boot. While booting, it shows loading at the bottom with Server ip. Also it shows that it is downloading x64 boot.wim. Then I am getting a System Center grey background, it gives pop up says windows starting up with my Site code showing at the top of the pop up. Then it prepares for network connections and that's it. It is not loading the task sequence. Then it reboots.

In SMSTS log it says,
RegOpenKeyExw is unsuccessful Software\Microsoft\SMS\Task Sequence
GetTsRegValue() is Unsuccessful 0x80070002

In SMSPXE log it says,
PXE::MP_InitializeTransport failed; 0x80004005 SMSPXE 9/2/2015 9:41:24 AM 2756 (0x0AC4)
PXE::MP_LookupDevice failed; 0x80004005 SMSPXE 9/2/2015 9:41:24 AM 2756 (0x0AC4)
PXE Provider failed to initialize MP connection.
Unspecified error (Error: 80004005; Source: Windows) SMSPXE 9/2/2015 9:41:24 AM 2756 (0x0AC4)
RequestMPKeyInformation: Send() failed. SMSPXE 9/2/2015 9:41:24 AM 2756 (0x0AC4)
Failed to get information for MP: http://CM12.FirstDomain.local. 80004005. SMSPXE 9/2/2015 9:41:24 AM 2756 (0x0AC4)
PXE::MP_InitializeTransport failed; 0x80004005 SMSPXE 9/2/2015 9:41:24 AM 2756 (0x0AC4)
PXE::MP_ReportStatus failed; 0x80004005 SMSPXE 9/2/2015 9:41:24 AM 2756 (0x0AC4)
PXE::CPolicyProvider::InitializeMPConnection failed; 0x80004005 SMSPXE 9/2/2015 9:41:24 AM 2756 (0x0AC4)

Please assist!!

 

[Prajwal Desai]

You could try the below steps :-

1) Uncheck the enable PXE option on the distribution point. Answer yes that you want to remove the Windows Deployment service.
2) Remove boot images from your distribution point
3) After few minutes delete %windir%\temp
4) If WDS is uninstalled correctly, reboot the server.
5) Check if the remoteinstall folder is located on your system. If it is delete it. If it fails to delete due to permission issues with the SMSTempBootFiles path, delete all folders except that one and then rename the remoteinstall folder something else.
6) Reboot the server.
7) Add the PXE point again by checking the box on the distribution point properties. Check the distrmgr.log and see if the remoteinstall folder reappears..
Replicate the boot image to the DP again. After they land you can try running an F12 and it should roll smoothly.

 

[Shibalik Sanyal]

I have tried these steps already. But still not working.
Let me share some findings,

I opened CMD and pinged my server by name, it is pinging the IPV6 address but when pinging ip, it says Transmit Failure.
I have checked that the machine is not getting proper ip rather getting APIPA with different subnet. However in DHCP server found that the machine's Mac address is reflecting under IPV4> Filter> Allow.
I have tried to exit the PXE boot and use the Boot image. So it loads the Windows PE and pops up the Task Sequence window. If I manually configure IP or leave it blank so that the DHCP can populate the details and hitting next, it tries to retrieve the policy but in the end it gives error 0x80004005 and asks to restart.

Somehow the there is a disconnect while loading the task sequence. I have checked different youtube videos but it goes fine in there.

 

[Prajwal Desai]

it is pinging the IPV6 address but when pinging ip, it says Transmit Failure - Looks like there is some firewall issue. Can you check it once.

 

[Shibalik Sanyal]

I have turned the firewall off in Server since it is a test lab.

 

[Prajwal Desai]

On your network adapter properties > disable the IPv6. As you mentioned lab, are you using VMware or Hyper-v or some other thing ?

 

[Shibalik Sanyal]

Okay, I finally resolved the issue. I am using VMWare and the issue was with the settings in VMWare. I had to edit the network preferences and configured the DHCP for custom network. It was a good learning. Anyway, many thanks for your support. I will contact you in future if I will come across more issues.

 

[Prajwal Desai]

Happy to hear that issue is resolved. Quick tip - When you want your DHCP to allot IP addresses, you configure the VM adapter properties, always uncheck Use local DHCP service to distribute IP address to VM's.

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