WDS on 2012

[cpjitservices]

Hi all,

 

I seem to have problems with WDS on 2012 R2, I have installed the role on a fileserver which is running DHCP.

 

PXE Boot works fine, its gets to loading files with the white bar going across the bottom, but then I get a failure.

 

 

I have added a boot image, and also install image.

 

Capture images also fail with the same error.

 

I have set options 66 & 67 in Server options. 66 pointing to IP of fileserver (WDS) and 67 to boot\x64\wdsnbp.com

 

Any Ideas ?

 

Thanks in advance

[cpjitservices]

It seems this is a bug and has not yet been fixed.

[Achandler]

WDS works fine on Server 2012, well it does for me. I didn't do anything different to a normal installation though.

 

I take it you get to choose either capture or deploy image, and it fails while loading that? Have you tried re-creating the boot image

[cpjitservices]

Yep have a look on the internet, its a common issue apparently one major bug. Capture image now works, I had to mount it in DISM, unmount it and replace the boot image.

 

Thats all well and good, however my install images dont work at all either.

[gmonks]

I had the same problem as you and found it was a bug. Couldn't fathom it because I've had it working on other 2012 servers. I needed WDS working urgently at the time so setup a 2008 R2 sever. I'm hoping to re-visit the issue later this year.

[mowgli82]

Yep have a look on the internet, its a common issue apparently one major bug. Capture image now works, I had to mount it in DISM, unmount it and replace the boot image.

 

Thats all well and good, however my install images dont work at all either.

 

^^^ this worked for me about 8 months ago

[free780]

Are you using uefi or bios? If you try and boot 32bit uefi it can fail if the correct files are not present.

[cpjitservices]

BIOS, booting using a virtual machine