I am having an issue with one particular model of laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1210 mini, its a piece of junk but I have to support it none the less. When PXE booting into the Deployment wizard it stops and reboots before getting to the Deployment Wizard's Welcome window.
Before the reboot it throws the error.
LiteTouch is trying to perform NIC configuration.
This cannot be performed in Windows PE.
If booting from a USB Flash Disk, please remove all drives before restarting.
Otherwise, ensure the hard disk is selected first in the boot order of the BIOS.
There is no usb drive and the hard drive is first in the boot order. I can press F8 and keep the system from rebooting. In the command console I can also see that the wired lan adapter has a valid dhcp address and I can ping just fine. The wireless is in a disconnected state but it appears that it is loading the correct drivers.
I even went as far as to create a test deployment share and regenerate a new boot os and task sequences. I only loaded the drivers for this laptop on the deployment share. Still to no luck.
Below is my BDD.log file
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit version: 6.0.2223.0 litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:02 AM 0 (0x0000)ZTIUtility!GetAllFixedDrives (False) litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:02 AM 0 (0x0000)
New ZTIDiskPartition : \\MININT-JDERV9G\root\cimv2:Win32_DiskPartition.DeviceID="Disk #0, Partition #0" \\MININT-JDERV9G\root\cimv2:Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID="C:" litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:03 AM 0 (0x0000)
New ZTIDisk : \\MININT-JDERV9G\root\cimv2:Win32_DiskDrive.DeviceID="\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE0" litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:04 AM 0 (0x0000)
ZTIUtility!GetAllFixedDrives = C: litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:04 AM 0 (0x0000)
Found existing task sequence state information in C:\_SMSTaskSequence, will continue litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:04 AM 0 (0x0000)
Unable to connect to BCDStore. litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:04 AM 0 (0x0000)
Not running within WinPE or WinRE. litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:04 AM 0 (0x0000)
DeploymentMethod = UNC litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:04 AM 0 (0x0000)
Validating connection to \\WDS\XP-DS litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:04 AM 0 (0x0000)
Found Existing UNC Path Z: = \\WDS\XP-DS litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Found Existing UNC Path Z: = \\WDS\XP-DS litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Successfully established connection using supplied credentials. litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
DeployRoot = \\WDS\XP-DS litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Property DeployDrive is now = Z: litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
DeployDrive = Z: litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Phase = STATERESTORE litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Validating connection to \\WDS\XP-DS litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Found Existing UNC Path Z: = \\WDS\XP-DS litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:06 AM 0 (0x0000)
Found Existing UNC Path Z: = \\WDS\XP-DS litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:06 AM 0 (0x0000)
Successfully established connection using supplied credentials. litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:06 AM 0 (0x0000)
Property DeployDrive is now = Z: litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:06 AM 0 (0x0000)
DeployDrive = Z: litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:06 AM 0 (0x0000)
Validating connection to \\WDS\XP-DS litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:06 AM 0 (0x0000)
Found Existing UNC Path Z: = \\WDS\XP-DS litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:07 AM 0 (0x0000)
Found Existing UNC Path Z: = \\WDS\XP-DS litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:07 AM 0 (0x0000)
Successfully established connection using supplied credentials. litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:07 AM 0 (0x0000)
DeploymentType = NEWCOMPUTER litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:07 AM 0 (0x0000)
ResourceRoot = \\WDS\XP-DS litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:07 AM 0 (0x0000)
Property ResourceDrive is now = Z: litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:07 AM 0 (0x0000)
ResourceDrive = Z: litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:07 AM 0 (0x0000)
SMS Task Sequencer already found on X:\Deploy\Tools\X86 litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:07 AM 0 (0x0000)
TargetPartitionIdentifier is set, find disk: SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE Size = '59995189248' and VolumeName = 'NewDisk' and VolumeSerialNumber = 'A668D8A7' litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:07 AM 0 (0x0000)
Search for Drive: TargetPartitionIdentifier SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE Size = '59995189248' and VolumeName = 'NewDisk' and VolumeSerialNumber = 'A668D8A7' litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:07 AM 0 (0x0000)
Found Drive: C: litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:08 AM 0 (0x0000)
Property OSDTargetDriveCache is now = C: litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:08 AM 0 (0x0000)
Property OSDisk is now = C: litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:08 AM 0 (0x0000)
About to run command: "X:\Deploy\Tools\X86\TsmBootstrap.exe" /env:SAContinue litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:08 AM 0 (0x0000)
Property LTIDirty is now = TRUE litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:08 AM 0 (0x0000)
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit version: 6.0.2223.0 ZTINICConfig 8/6/2012 10:17:10 AM 0 (0x0000)
The task sequencer log is located at X:\WINDOWS\TEMP\SMSTSLog\SMSTS.LOG. For task sequence failures, please consult this log. ZTINICConfig 8/6/2012 10:17:10 AM 0 (0x0000)
Environment Error: ManualRetry (From ZTINicConfig). ZTINICConfig 8/6/2012 10:17:10 AM 0 (0x0000)
Property LTISuspend is now = LiteTouch is trying to perform NIC configuration.
This cannot be performed in Windows PE.
If booting from a USB Flash Disk, please remove all drives before restarting.
Otherwise, ensure the hard disk is selected first in the boot order of the BIOS. ZTINICConfig 8/6/2012 10:17:11 AM 0 (0x0000)
Property SMSTSRebootRequested is now = true ZTINICConfig 8/6/2012 10:17:11 AM 0 (0x0000)
Property SMSTSRetryRequested is now = true ZTINICConfig 8/6/2012 10:17:11 AM 0 (0x0000)
ZTINICConfig processing completed successfully. ZTINICConfig 8/6/2012 10:17:11 AM 0 (0x0000)
Property LTIGUID is now = 09e8f7d5-7009-47da-9ad3-a890b5b7dbfd ZTINICConfig 8/6/2012 10:17:11 AM 0 (0x0000)
Event 41001 sent: ZTINICConfig processing completed successfully. ZTINICConfig 8/6/2012 10:17:11 AM 0 (0x0000)
Command completed, return code = -2147021886 litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:11 AM 0 (0x0000)
Property LTIDirty is now = FALSE litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:12 AM 0 (0x0000)
If there is a drive letter defined, make sure we clear it now so we can *force* recalcutation. litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:12 AM 0 (0x0000)
Property OSDTargetDriveCache is now = DIRTY litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:12 AM 0 (0x0000)
LTI initiating task sequence-requested reboot. litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:12 AM 0 (0x0000)
Event 41017 sent: LTI initiating task sequence-requested reboot. litetouch 8/6/2012 10:17:12 AM 0 (0x0000)
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.