Hard Disk not found after Deployment
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Hi guys,
Looking for some help here.
I have captured a new image today via a Virtual Machine, no errors, seems to be working fine.
Deployed the image to several machines, no errors, seems that deployment was successful.But… When I try to boot, it can’t find the Hard Disk, only thing which is there is the Windows Boot Manager and the PXE Boot options. When I boot into fog again, and select boot from hard disk, it just brings me to rEFInd Boot Manager page.
Almost looks like the hard disk is completely gone for some reason. When I try adding it in the Bios, I get the error no file system found…Has anyone seen something like this before and how can I get this fixed?
Thanks for your assistance, much appreciated!
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Update on this problem:
Seems that the image is working fine on a different model: Dell Optiplex 3040 is working fine.
I keep having the loop problem on several Dell Optiplex 5070’s. Any idea why that might be idea? -
Another update:…
When I deploy an older W10 image which I captured from a physical machine instead of from a VM, it deploys just fine on the Optiplex 5070.
What am I doing wrong with this VM image for the 5070?
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@vanopy said in Hard Disk not found after Deployment:
Optiplex 5070
Possibly this machine has a different disk controller and is having an issue after deployment because of that?!
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After browsing through the forum, I think I have found the issue.
I have never created an image via VMWare and apparently when installing the W10 iso, it is by default in MBR.
If I’m not mistaken, it should be in GPT to get it working in UEFI.Is there any guide/procedure to get the image captured in GPT, while it’s a VM in VMWare?
I can’t seem to get the disk in GPT by default, Windows seems to be always installing on the disk in MBR… -
@vanopy Not sure which version of VMware you use but maybe this helps: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/584824
- Select the VM
- Right click settings
- select Options tab
- Select Advanced Button
- on the right side of pan select the firmware type you need by selecting a radio button (BIOS/UEFI)
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Yes, I also saw this article, but by adding the UEFI option, I wasn’t sure if this would be sufficient and if the disk would already be in GPT during the installation process.
Anyway, I will give this a try, thanks for looking into this!
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@vanopy FWIW, I have 2 VMs I used to create our golden image. One is configured as bios and the other is configured as uefi. We use MDT to create 2 exact images (one bios and one uefi) of each. MDT is used to create a repeatable (every time) golden image. Then we capture each of these golden images and then deploy the appropriate captured image to the respective hardware. I can so though lately we are deploying more uefi images and less bios based images based on the target system demographics.
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@george1421 Did you also do this in VMWare?
If so, how did you do the install in VMWare, to make sure the disk was in UEFI?
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@vanopy Are you using ESXi or Workstation as your hypervisor?
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@george1421 ESXi
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@vanopy Its here (in 6.5 vSphere)
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@george1421 Yes, I saw those settings, but strange enough it seems that I don’t see all these options in the VM options.
I only see General Options, VMware Tools and Advanced. I’m also running on vsphere 6.5 though… -
@vanopy It sounds like you don’t have vCenter but are using the web ui right on esxi? Let me see from that UI.
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@vanopy Its there under the esxi web ui too.
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@george1421 I’m using the vSphere Client, and it’s not there for me unfortunately:…
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@vanopy Oh so you are using the C# (retired) application or is it the (retired) flash based management? If its the C# application I can understand why its not working.
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@george1421 The flash based… Just tried to login directly on the client and now I see the option…
Was always used to work this way and didn’t even realize I was lacking quite some options by doing so.
Seems that it was an ID10T error, sorry about that
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@vanopy If you have vCenter the flash based ui that part of that is close to the standalone C# vsphere application. But that too is being retired. You will need to get use to the html5 web ui sooner or later. I finally gave up about a year ago and started using the vCenter html5 web ui even though the flash based ui was nicer to use.
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@george1421 May I ask for your assistance one more time please?
I believe I have everything ready, but now I would need to know how to get my UEFI VM to PXE boot.
I’ve tried the boot option EFI Network, but it just sits as this screen and nothing happens: