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    • george1421G
      george1421 Moderator
      last edited by george1421

      So its not staring WinSetup/OOBE at all? Only loops at reboot?

      So the image you captured was it from a bios based VM or a uefi based VM?
      The target computer you are deploying to, is it bios (legacy) or uefi based?

      You can only deploy bios captured images to a bios based computer and the same thing goes for uefi.

      FWIW, I develop my reference images on a VM and deploy them to physical computers. Our current base image is based on 1903 and it works fine when captured from a VM and deployed to a physical computer.

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        davidka @george1421
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        @george1421 The machine i’m testing on has an intel DH67BL motherboard, I think it uses a BIOS with a compatiblity layer for EFI. We have a newer machine can test on also. The VM i made is just a standard virtualbox VM I didnt think to try the efi option (duh) but the reboot thing it just keeps rebooting the machine, never gets to windows at all. I’ll make a new image and be sure to check the efi option on VM.

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          davidka @Sebastian Roth
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          @Sebastian-Roth I think you and George1421 gave me the idea to check. I didnt think to select the EFI option on Virtualbox when I made the VM. So I’m going to try that, and also try a newer tower. The one I’m using is an older intel DH67BL with a BIOS that has CSM for EFI compatibility.

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          • george1421G
            george1421 Moderator @davidka
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            @davidka well its important to know what you are deploying to. If you captured a bios (legacy) image, lets test to deploy to a know computer in bios mode. I don’t think you can create a uefi based VM in virtual box, FWIW. I know you can with vSphere and VMWorkstation (which I use).

            Also to confirm you sysprep’d the image before capture, right?

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              Sebastian Roth Moderator
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              @george1421 said in image deploy works to virtual machines but not on working on actual machines:

              I don’t think you can create a uefi based VM in virtual box,

              I am not exactly sure about this but I think you can create UEFI based VM and install an OS from an ISO just fine. But the issue is that you cannot properly PXE boot that UEFI based VM to capture the image. Search our forums and the web to see if this is still the case even in the latest version of VirtualBox.

              Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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              • george1421G
                george1421 Moderator @Sebastian Roth
                last edited by george1421

                @Sebastian-Roth Ok well I stand corrected, I just looked at VB (v5.1.38) on my linux mint laptop and EFI mode is now there (who did that?)

                Settings->System->Motherboard->Enable EFI

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                  Sebastian Roth Moderator
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                  @george1421 Yes, the setting is there but can you PXE boot (to ipxe.efi)??

                  Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                  • george1421G
                    george1421 Moderator @Sebastian Roth
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                    @Sebastian-Roth Good question… I was able to enable network booting, and then from the F12 menu pick LAN. It appeared to want to pxe boot but my home FOG server is off line at the moment so I can tell for sure. BUT the pxe boot screen looks suspiciously like a bios pxe boot screen and not efi.

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                      astrugatch @Sebastian Roth
                      last edited by astrugatch

                      @Sebastian-Roth I make all my EFI images in virtual box. My workflow has me enable efi. Do the base install and when I go to pxe I switch off efi and do my capture. The os is still an efi os and won’t boot in vbox until you reenable efi. Has worked fine for me with images going back to windows 7 all the way up to our current testing of 1903

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                        Quazz Moderator @Sebastian Roth
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                        @Sebastian-Roth I believe there is a configuration where you can (ICH9 chipset + virtio-net network adapter)

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