gsankowsky Posted October 10, 2012 Report post Posted October 10, 2012 Hi Everyone, From my understanding, if you advertise a mandatory OSD, say Windows 7 to a computer it installs, then marks it with a "PXE Flag". If you set a computers boot order to boot network first, then it should abortpxe.com quickly - as it has no OSD's to apply? What I am finding is that it doesn't try to run the OSD again, the network boot times out and eventually loads windows off the disk. However at my Uni, I notice their machines always boot networks, and they always get abortpxe.com coming up real quick. I have set the pxe response time to 2 seconds......is there anything else I need to do, or is it functioning as normal? Cheers Greg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmrelMahdy Posted October 10, 2012 Report post Posted October 10, 2012 You have to Configure the DHCP options 66 ,67 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Man Posted October 10, 2012 Report post Posted October 10, 2012 Could be their network is of higher spec than yours maybe? Just sounds like symptoms of response/connection times to me also client hardware plays a role in this too i:e fast ethernet NIC vs GB NIC etc... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsankowsky Posted October 12, 2012 Report post Posted October 12, 2012 Hi, Cheers for that. Yes - they would have higher spec gear....but not by alot. We use Cisco 2960-S with 10gb back to the core, 1 hop to core, and server is a 10gb Hyper-v server, and cpu/ram util is generally never above 30% ever. I get a fast response if there is no pxe flag set, it boots into OSD really quick. Just when there is a flag set, instead of the pxeabort.com it times out. I'll give those DHCP options a go. Cheers Greg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oneone Posted October 12, 2012 Report post Posted October 12, 2012 Hi Everyone, From my understanding, if you advertise a mandatory OSD, say Windows 7 to a computer it installs, then marks it with a "PXE Flag". If you set a computers boot order to boot network first, then it should abortpxe.com quickly - as it has no OSD's to apply? What I am finding is that it doesn't try to run the OSD again, the network boot times out and eventually loads windows off the disk. However at my Uni, I notice their machines always boot networks, and they always get abortpxe.com coming up real quick. I have set the pxe response time to 2 seconds......is there anything else I need to do, or is it functioning as normal? Cheers Greg How did you set the advertisment? "always rerun" "Rerun if previosly failed" ect ect... ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsankowsky Posted October 14, 2012 Report post Posted October 14, 2012 Hi, Settings were: Action: Install Purpose: Required (YES) Make available to boot media and PXE Rerun if failed previous attempt I just don't get why it isn't going to abortpxe.com instead of timing out. I thought the whole idea was you set to boot off network. If there is no pxe flag then it installs. If there is a pxe flag then it returns abortpxe.com and continues off the HDD> Cheers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey C Posted October 15, 2012 Report post Posted October 15, 2012 Setting DHCP options for PXE using SCCM 2007 is not supported by MS, you should only use IP helpers. When you say times out - is this timing out waiting for an IP from DHCP? This is not the correct behaviour from my experience. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsankowsky Posted October 15, 2012 Report post Posted October 15, 2012 Sort of, Message at PXE boot screen is: PXE-E53: No boot filename received PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent This is after a mandatory OSD. If the PXE flag is clears it responds with a new install very quickly, but this timeout takes 20-30 secs - it seems like it's not deploying abortpxe.com as the alternative if the PXE flag is set?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
