Issues with PXE booting

Hello guys I'm having some issues with PXE booting on my DP.
I've installed them on a single server with SCCM installed and using it as a DP.
When I've tried to PXE boot I'm having some issues. Please see the screenshots below:
Here is the PXE log:
Below are my pictures of 066 and 067 

Hi,
have you run the
WDSUTIL /Set-Device /Device:<name> /ReferralServer:<ServerName>
command?
From:
Managing Network Boot Programs
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732351%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
"If you are not using DHCP options 66 and 67, in order to configure a network boot referral, you must prestage the client and you must run
WDSUTIL /Set-Device /Device:<name> /ReferralServer:<ServerName> to specify the server that the client should use."
Regards,
Stoyan
Hi Stoyan I have not, as I'm using the DHCP optioins

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    i'm reading https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di … t_NFS_root and trying one tonight.

    I think you need to have a subnetting system worked out, having a network of more networks and less hosts. So that you can "route" between each machine on either side of the network, effectively making a token ethernet.  But then it's going to get confusing if you actually try to complete the circle.  You could use iptables on each machine, one NIC would have a fixed address, serving dhcp to the PXE client machine.  So when you boot up a new PXE client, have it boot from the original server, maybe a copy of the same kernel in the /var/tftpboot directory on the main server and in the PXE client's same directory, but the root filesystem still accessed from the main server across the iptables and subnet.  Using pxelinux.cfg rules, you could have it set, to boot (possibly in fixed order) downline with the different configurations to get them to work.  I think you will be troubleshooting network bottlenecks, because no matter how you do it, it will eventually all go back to the main server.  Any errors in implementation will of course propogate across the network and cause problems.
    Ditto, just get a hand-me-down switch from somewhere.
    Last edited by nomorewindows (2012-06-23 16:35:33)

  • Set PXE boot image

    I'm having a problem similar to what's described at https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1398dc34-1672-4336-92fc-5cb72de031d5/locking-selected-pxe-boot-image?forum=configmanagerosd
    We are running SCCM 2012 R2 (upgraded from SP1) We have a 64 bit and and a 32 bit boot image. The 64 bit has "Deploy this boot image from the PXE-enabled distribution point" unchecked. The 32 bit image is checked. Clients are still trying to boot
    64 bit. We had using the 32 bit image for months (before and after R2 upgrade) I was making changes to the 64 bit image and suddenly it decided it was the PXE boot image. How can I get SCCM to go back the the 32bit boot.wim?
    Here's what I've tried:
    1) Right click 32 bit boot wim and update distribution points
    2) Deploy a new TS that is set to use the 32 bit boot.wim.
    3) Reboot the SCCM server (we have a single server, single distribution point)
    What else can we do to get back to a working state with PXE boot?

    In addition to the other comments, 1 and 3 are effectively meaningless in this context.
    #2 will work per Jorgen's and Doug's comments -- this comes down to the fact that if there is any ambiguity as to which boot image should be used (usually because the system has multiple possible task sequences targeted to it that have different boot images),
    then the boot image associated with the task sequence having a deployment with the highest ID is used; i.e., the boot image for the most recently deployed TS (as Doug stated also).
    Because you've already seemingly addressed this, it sounds like you may have simply switched the boot image associated with the TS on accident and you should verify this first.
    Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | @jasonsandys

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