Hello dear experts,
We have automated the Operate System deployment of an Intel devices: DELL 7040/7050 computers. We use Linux PXE deployment and we have 2 OS being deployed: Linux Ubuntu and Win10 RS3 (WinPE developed).
We use AMT utilities to perform the remote commands, NetworkAdmin.exe and RemoteControl.exe, taken from SDK source: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-the-latest-intel-amt-software-development-kit-sdk
and it works fine through "mono" tool in linux:
"/usr/bin/mono /data/tools/automation/win/amt/bin/RemoteControl.exe -setbootsource pxe -host ${IP} -user admin -pass ${PS}"
"/usr/bin/mono /data/tools/automation/win/amt/bin/RemoteControl.exe -changepower busreset -host ${IP} -user admin -pass ${PS}"
Problem Summary:
When we boot the system to deploy Win10 OS by the approach, above. System boots PXE, start downloading and raise up the winpe image. But Windows installation fails in the Disk stage, warns: "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the setup log files for more information". Due to the logs the disk was found and the partition has been created. I see it also by: "DISKPART> select Disk 0 -> list partition".
While, when I boot PXE manually (by F12) using AMT console and selecting PXE in boot sequence, system boots and installs fine and no any warnings.
This problem also does not meet in Linux OS automation or manual deployment by a same approach. Works excellent and no any trouble.