Michael Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 Hi all, I'm having great difficulty imaging a Lenovo Ideapad, model: MIIX 310-10ICR. I can successfully boot using USB Flash to begin imaging, but can only pull the image down from USB Flash too - no LAN available and doesn't recognise USB hard disks either, whereas I've used the same process on literally thousands of different makes/models over the years. It eventually pulls down the image off USB Flash - a Sysprepped Windows 10 Edu x64 1607, again tried and tested on many, many devices and it simply states 'Cannot Boot' or words to that effect; it's probably the worst BIOS I've ever dealt with, as there are no real options, just Secure Boot on/off and I have tried both. Any suggestions would be welcome!
sted Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 i suspect your boot usb dosent have usb/nic drivers for the hardware you might need to add them to boot.wim. iirc if secureboot is on boot devies need to be slightly different again iirc fat32 but if you do have a fat32 usb pen wouldnt max file size mean your install.wim is too big?
PotNoodleTech Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 You tried a USB > Ethernet adaptor? I bought 4 to use with troublesome devices. Something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ET4KHJ2/ref=sspa_dk_detail_1?psc=1
JATSO Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 Hi all, I'm having great difficulty imaging a Lenovo Ideapad, model: MIIX 310-10ICR. I can successfully boot using USB Flash to begin imaging, but can only pull the image down from USB Flash too - no LAN available and doesn't recognise USB hard disks either, whereas I've used the same process on literally thousands of different makes/models over the years. It eventually pulls down the image off USB Flash - a Sysprepped Windows 10 Edu x64 1607, again tried and tested on many, many devices and it simply states 'Cannot Boot' or words to that effect; it's probably the worst BIOS I've ever dealt with, as there are no real options, just Secure Boot on/off and I have tried both. Any suggestions would be welcome! Take a look here we have all had the similar issues: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/o-s-deployment/189208-lenovo-miix-imaging-problems.html Also one of these may help: https://www3.lenovo.com/gb/en/accessories-and-monitors/cables-and-adapters/adapters/CABLE-BO-TP-USB3-0-to-Ethernet-Adpt/p/4X90E51405
Michael Posted February 7, 2018 Author Posted February 7, 2018 So hypothetically speaking, if I can get into Win PE, download the image, but then the device fails to boot why would this be? As I say, this image is tried and tested, so I know it works. The USB > LAN adapter would be useful to join the domain and/or pull the image optionally, but still doesn't explain why it doesn't boot at all.
LeMarchand Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 So hypothetically speaking, if I can get into Win PE, download the image, but then the device fails to boot why would this be? As I say, this image is tried and tested, so I know it works. The USB > LAN adapter would be useful to join the domain and/or pull the image optionally, but still doesn't explain why it doesn't boot at all. When you say "download the image" do you mean it seems to apply, but then doesn't boot?
Arthur Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 iirc if secureboot is on boot devices need to be slightly different again iirc fat32 but if you do have a fat32 usb pen wouldn't max file size mean your install.wim is too big? Not if you use Rufus. This can create a bootable drive with two partitions (one FAT32 and one NTFS) to get around the FAT32 file size limitations. The image would be saved to the NTFS partition. @Michael. How are you creating your bootable flash drive?
LeMarchand Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 Correct Does the image contain the drivers for the machine?
Michael Posted February 7, 2018 Author Posted February 7, 2018 Not if you use Rufus. This can create a bootable drive with two partitions (one FAT32 and one NTFS) to get around the FAT32 file size limitations. The image would be saved to the NTFS partition. @Michael. How are you creating your bootable flash drive? The image utility allows the creation of bootable 32/64Bit instances - either ISO or USB Flash - this bit works absolutely fine, I can boot the notebook and pull down the image file. The issue is after the image has completed and the volume resized, it automatically re-boots and halts at the BIOS screen. Normally Windows should boot and start Sysprep.
Michael Posted February 7, 2018 Author Posted February 7, 2018 Does the image contain the drivers for the machine? Most drivers should be available, given that the USB Flash boot files and the image file itself are both based on Windows 10 1607. - - - Updated - - - I wonder if it's the UEFI BIOS that's the issue, rather than anything I'm trying to do?
LeMarchand Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 Most drivers should be available, given that the USB Flash boot files and the image file itself are both based on Windows 10 1607. - - - Updated - - - I wonder if it's the UEFI BIOS that's the issue, rather than anything I'm trying to do? IIRC with my Miix 320s the display and other drivers needed merging in as I couldn't use the network to pull them from the server. Our W10 image is solely UEFI, but I remember having to create "UEFI" images for W8.1 - the same image, but I had to change something or other to make it UEFI compatible.
Arthur Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 I wonder if it's the UEFI BIOS that's the issue Is the Windows partition GPT formatted?
LeMarchand Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 Is the Windows partition GPT formatted? ...I think that's what the difference was! I also seem to remember that it was you, @Arthur, that helped me get that sorted out!
Arthur Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 I think that's what the difference was! I think you're right. I also remember having a similar issue to @Michael on some older Dell laptops that don't fully support UEFI. When SCCM repartitions the disk and applies the image, the computer reboots and doesn't go any further because it was booted in legacy mode (no UEFI network stack!). The only way to fix it was to turn off UEFI. However in @Michael's case the fix might be to check the partitions and format of the disk are correct. I also seem to remember that it was you, @Arthur, that helped me get that sorted out! Good memory! www.edugeek.net/forums/o-s-deployment/169815-uefi-image-problems.html#post1462845 1
LeMarchand Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 Good memory! www.edugeek.net/forums/o-s-deployment/169815-uefi-image-problems.html#post1462845 Have some more thanks - that really helped with subsequent W10/UEFI images!
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