Bare-metal deployment to previously used host fails - removing host references.

I am running SCVMM 2012 R2 and setting up bare-metal deployment of Hyper-V hosts. I got it almost figured out but I am getting a failure when it tries to register the host with the error The fault reason was: 'Unexpected registration of physical
computer 4a310166-642f-e211-0050-05000000003a.' in the vmm log file vmmagentpe.exe.log. The error onscreen in PE is
Error: 803d0013. I have been using this server for my testing and have had a few other failures which are now resolved. All other tasks in the job complete except for
Wait for physical machine to reboot and customization to be finished.
This host was also registered in VMM as part of a manually built cluster before I started looking into bare-metal. I believe the problem is that there are probably references to this host in VMM.
Does anyone know where to look in the db or another method to remove anything related to this host?

I figured this out. It was rebooting to PXE instead of booting to the newly installed OS. once I reset the boot order to local disk it came up and ran mini-setup, domain join and all as expected.
-tim

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As the title you posted , it is VMM bare-metal-deployment .
Please refer to following artiles for VMM bare-metal-deployment :
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http://borgamentes.blogspot.in/2013/09/bare-metal-deployment-with-vmm-2012-sp1.html
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