E5470 Puzzler

[aleinss]

I have a MDT 2013 server. Everything has been working, except some newer models from Dell are giving me heartburn (specifically the E5470). What happens it is gets to about 91% of applying the image, tries to do the next step and fails (see attached). If I type "net use", the connection to the deployment server has been dropped, but I can re-map it and ping never fails when I have it running in the background. I rebuilt the boot media (built a new MDT server, copied over the WinPE binaries), removed and added the drivers from Intel's site, but nothing will work. It also deletes all the log files from C:\minint\smsosd\osdlogs when it bombs out making troubleshooting difficult, but basically it appears to be dropping the network connection causing it to freak out.

 

Any ideas? Using the full offline media appears to work mostly fine (I have to add drivers still, but at least the image goes on )

GEN4077-15.zip

Edited April 28, 2016 by aleinss

[minimoo]

can you set a network path to the logs?

 

SLShareDynamicLogging=\\Scriptimus-01\DeploymentShare$\Logs

[aleinss]

Thanks, logs attached to posting. Looking at them now...looks like it's getting confused what partition is the boot drive?

[aleinss]

Uploaded picture of diskpart results...V: appears to be the 500MB bitlocker partition...

[aleinss]

Figured it out...we were using GRUB to load the ISOs and the BIOS doesn't like that ISO emulation on the E7270 or E5470. Using Rufus to convert the ISO 2 USB worked fine.