Imaging_sysprep

[Romain FETTES]

Hi all,

I have a prob imaging HP EVO530 SFF.

A consultant once prepared 1 image which worked for EVO510 & EVO530 with
Windows2000SP3 at that time.

I know preped an XP PRO SP2 image on an EVO530, but it just doesn't want to
boot on a EVO510. After the BIOS screen it just keeps rebooting !

I syspreped it usin the -pnp option, all drivers are on C:\drivers with
accurate pathes set in OemPnpDriversPath.

The EVO 530 uses a MPC hal, while EVO510 has a UPC HAl. I also compared the
W2K image to my eyisting one. only difference I found is that OEM$\1 is
holding NIC drivers ? I don't have them there on my YP build, I keep the
drivers in c:>drivers\Nic... f.ex

Anyone has an idea ?

Thx alot

rom

 

[Guest]

Include in your sysprep.inf file...

;SetupMgrTag
[Unattended]
OemSkipEula=Yes
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
Autoactivate=yes
OemPnPDriversPath=
UpdateUPHAL=Yes
UpdateUPHAL=ACPIPIC_UP,C:\WINDOWS\Inf\Hal.inf
UpdateUPHAL=ACPIAPIC_UP,C:\WINDOWS\Inf\Hal.inf
UpdateUPHAL=MPS_UP,C:\WINDOWS\Inf\Hal.inf

 

[Guest]

Also, I use Sysprep witht he following options...

sysprep -mini -PNP -reseal

 

[Romain FETTES]

Hi,
Thx a lot, will try that !

very much appreciated !

romain

 

[Romain FETTES]

Hi,
unfortunately this doesn't work..., any other ideas ?

 

[Guest]

You are using a VLK, right? If not, this could ne the reason...

 

[Romain FETTES]

Hi,

Yes , we use VLK !

Strange behaviour, as it worked fine with W2K, and even without those
settings in the sysprep.inf file.

And I read here that someone was able to engineer 1 image for several pc
types including Laptops....

Thx nevertheless, but any other suggestions are welcome.

rom

 

[Guest]

Try creating the image on the Single processor PC (UPC HAL), ang syprep that
image. Then drop it on the MPC HAL and see if that works.

Derrek

 

[Romain FETTES]

Hi,

I tried that to in the beginning but without the HAL settings in
sysprep.inf.

I'll try that on Monday.

thx Derreck.

rom

 

[Guest]

ok. try it WITH the hal settings and see how it goes.

 

[Romain FETTES]

Hi,
Unfortunately this doesn't work neither..., I have no idea, the image gets
dumped correctly, the wkst boots, reboots immediately (no blue screen). when
the wkst boots up again, it says: Windows didn't star correctly the last
time...blabla, do you want to start Windows in safe mode...

Sorry...

rom