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the Alekhnovich2020-09-24 10:29:16
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the Alekhnovich, 2020-09-24 10:29:16

Trouble installing OS via PXE?

Good afternoon everyone, a disaster happened, and it is not possible to establish the prerequisites and reasons, but first things first.

I have a Thinkpad T470s laptop that needed to be reformatted first. And there were already problems at this stage, since CMD (formatting was done through Diskpart) referred to incorrect syntax after it hung at 0 percent for up to half an hour. But I did not despair and reformatted the SSD using GParted'a (Live CD Linux tool (specifically -- Mint)). By the way, the reason for formatting is the presence of a bitlocker.

After I figured out the formatting, I started installing Windows 10 via PXE, but even then the difficulties began: the installation dialog using PXE and a USB drive ended with an error referring to a problem with the media (0x800700A1 and 0x80070057, respectively). At the same time, the state of the SSD is normal.

Since it is not possible to study the carrier thoroughly. Therefore, I bought a new one, but the problems did not end: this time, installing the OS using a flash drive ended in success, and through PXE, with error 102. At the same time, the process of installing Windows on other laptops using PXE proceeds normally.

It is worth noting that the company has requirements for UEFI settings, namely: launching only UEFI, CSM support is disabled and Secure Boot is enabled (I tried to pick UEFI settings, but there's no point). By the way, when starting PXE, the laptop tries to establish communication with the server via IPv4 only the second time, although IPv4 is the first in the queue. A

Therefore, the essence of my question is simple: what could be the problem, or how can I identify it, and also how to solve the problem with installing via PXE?

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the Alekhnovich, 2021-02-19
@Uladz

The solution was to create a new GPT partition table. Probably, during the cleanup, the table was damaged or remounted to the MBR, which prevented the installer from reformatting the media "for itself".
Used both the GParted utility on a live Linux Mint image and the Acroics utility on a live WinPE/

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ggruno, 2020-09-24
@ggruno

Are you installing via wds?

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