Problems booting after sysgen/ WDS

[mikeprice]

Hi

I have just set up WDS from scratch on a 2008 server and I am now3 testing it.

 

It all seems to work initially - network boot works boot files seem Ok etc

 

I have created a new capture image as per instructions

 

I have now sysgen'd a machine and created a new image and all seems normal

 

BUT - now I have loaded the image onto the WDS server I want to restart the PC and that is where the problems appear

 

I start the PC and the following happens

 

Starting Windows ( as normal)

Setup is updating the registry setting

Setup is starting services

Windows could not finish configuring configuring the system. To attempt to resume configuration restart the system

 

If I restart the system it just does the same thing

 

 

Anyone any idea what I have done wrong??

 

TIA

 

Mike

[halbaradkenafin]

If you'd sysprep'd the machine before capture then the best thing to do would be to look up the log files for the failed start up. They should be stored on the local machine but I can't remember exactly where, you can also grab the unattend.xml file from the machine and run it through a checker (I believe there is an online tool for it or as part of the deployment toolkit) and it will tell you of any problems with that,which is possibly causing the error.

[mikeprice]

Problem is that I can't get onto the machine at all as it won't boot??

[pete]

Netboot the misbehaving machine from WDS, once you get to the login prompt, press Shift + F10 to get a command prompt. Dump the logs to a network share and read on another computer.

 

How long is the name of the computer account WDS created in AD? WSUS will happily create a name of any length, but initial setup will choke if it's greater than 15.

[amudamai]

Hi,

 

What version of windows are you trying to install, if you have a winpe disk you can read the sysprep logs located in %WINDIR%\System32\Sysprep\Panther to know what is causing the issue

[sted]

usually that message means when you sysprepped the image machine something went wrong the only way I found to fix it was to create a new image (one reason I do images on vms and snapshot before I sysprep) also tbh id look at mdt if youre starting from scratch as I find it much more flexible

[mikeprice]

Hi,

 

What version of windows are you trying to install, if you have a winpe disk you can read the sysprep logs located in %WINDIR%\System32\Sysprep\Panther to know what is causing the issue

 

Trying in stall win 7 enterprise - no win pe disk but could take disk out and look at it from anotehr PC - will try that when I get a chance - thanks

[themightymrp]

Is the machine running Win 7? And have you added IE 10 or 11 into the image? If so, I recall having to remove a line from an unattend.xml answer file which refers to IEWelcomeMsg which is a deprecated command..? I'm sure I found a post on here about it once to fix an issue I had which sounds like the same thing

[themightymrp]

Check this page for what I'm referring to. Not sure it's exactly the same as your problem but it does sound like the same thin I used to get:

 

https://deploymentpt.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/deploy-windows-7-and-ie10-in-the-same-reference-image/

[mikeprice]

After many months of trying to get this sorted I have finally got the damn thing to boot so I'm just documenting it in case anyone else has the same problem and sees this

 

All I needed to do was f8 on booting and disable device signing enforcement - then it magically worked