Surface Pro 4 Image Capture

[Psycholiquid]

https://youtu.be/QBJLhO1zuJA

[Psycholiquid]

So what are the chances of getting a has USB nic added to the host screen as a check box? Right now I will just make a group and put the kernel arguments there and update the group as hosts are added, but with devices going this way it might not be a bad idea.

Let me know if that is a bit out of scope.

[Psycholiquid]

@Psycholiquid said in Surface Pro 4 Image Capture:

@Psycholiquid said in Surface Pro 4 Image Capture:

has_usb_nic=1

ok so added has_usb_nic=1 to the host under kernel arguments and it is uploading now, I still get the usb 2-2-port2 error over and over, but the nic does come up. Ill post a video of here in a sec once the image completes.

I believe what I am seeing is the docking station nic that is throwing that error.

[Tom Elliott]

@Psycholiquid My hope is that it will be unneeded in the future, though I don’t know when that will be.

The reason I’m not making it a checkbox is because it’s essentially going to be deprecated the moment 1.3.0 releases. Adding it is not difficult or out of scope but for the few cases where has_usb_nic is actually required I don’t think warrants such a large scale change. Especially considering that not ALL USB PXE Nic’s require the has_usb_nic setting.

[Psycholiquid]

@Tom-Elliott Understood.

When I am uploading no matter how I do it, the image is coming back as uncleanly mounted.

I tried with and without sysrepping it. I did run Disk Scan before on both runs tand rebooted twice before trying to upload the image. Wondering if the partitioning auto fix is causing the issue:

[Psycholiquid]

Trying a few different options such as single disk not re-sizable to see if that makes a difference

[Tom Elliott]

@Psycholiquid Did you disable hibernate in the image?

Open CMD:

Run: powercfg -h off

[Psycholiquid]

@Tom-Elliott I did not, I’ll give that a try

[Psycholiquid]

@Tom-Elliott Nope no dice.

[Psycholiquid]

Gonna try turning off quickboot options. I am reading that can cause this issue.

[george1421]

@Psycholiquid what target OS? If you use the shutdown switch when sysprep it should cleanly close the disk. The other fix would be to sysprep then reboot into a pxe boot. On win10 shutdown is more like enhanced sleep than a power off

[Psycholiquid]

ok tried teh powercfg -f off and turning off the quick boot options. Made sure the hibernation file was gone also. No dice, gonna try and upload it before hitting OOBE and see what happens.

[Tom Elliott]

@Psycholiquid Upload before hitting OOBE?

[Psycholiquid]

@Tom-Elliott yeah I am wondering if it has something to do with audit mode. I have seen it do this before. Not completely sure why.

[Tom Elliott]

@Psycholiquid I don’t know what you mean by “upload before hitting OOBE?”

You’re sysprepping the system, letting it boot a little bit first, THEN uploading the image?

[Psycholiquid]

@Tom-Elliott Nope, I have it in audit mode, then I run my script (Unattend.xml) and once it goes down and comes back to the “BIOS” I push it into network boot to capture the image

This way when a computer comes up form being imaged it thinks it is the first time it boot. Like all the major OEMs do it

[Tom Elliott]

@Psycholiquid That’s where I was lost. That’s how you’re supposed to do it.

[Psycholiquid]

Yeah, but for some reason it is making the partition dirty, cant figure out why though. It did this to me before and I was finally able to get past it after a few reboots and disk checks, but this time it isnt working. Gonna work at it some and report back

[george1421]

@Psycholiquid as far as this thread is concerned, is the issue of not able to capture the image solved? I know what you are capturing is not working but at this time you can capture.

[Psycholiquid]

@george1421 Yeah I would say it is technically working, the issue I am having with with the PC not the capture process.