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@george1421 Decided to use the bootable USB solution. Worked perfectly. Thanks for the help.

So in doing some research I’ve determined that iPXE just flat-out doesn’t have drivers for USB ethernet adapters. It does however appear that someone has a fork of iPXE that has drivers for the exact adapter I’m using. I’ll look into building from that.

I’ve tried both ipxe.efi and snponly.efi. Just now confirmed that booting legacy rather than UEFI works correctly. I was able to register it as a host. UEFI is still behaving identically on both ipxe.efi and snponly.efi.

Trying to deploy an image to a Lenovo Thinkpad Helix. I’m using a Lenovo-branded USB-ethernet adapter. It boots successfully to the FOG menu, but when I go to any menu option – host registration, system information, deploy – other than “boot from hard drive”, it goes to a blank screen with an underscore cursor in the top left. The cursor blinks once, then stops. It hangs at this point. I’ve left the computer sitting for at least 30 minutes without any changes.

Sorry for the prolonged absence. I’ve created a new legacy image, using the same driver deployment process. This image deploys successfully to the Z70-80. There are some other machines that we absolutely do need the legacy image for, so it’s not too much overhead to just use that image for the Z70-80.

@Wayne-Workman We’ve had success in using the universal image on several other kinds of devices.

@george1421 We don’t have any spare drives lying around to do a replacement. Currently capturing a legacy image to determine whether UEFI/GPT might be related to the issue.

@george1421
With no drivers it behaves exactly the same.
Yes it is a traditional hard drive (Samsung ST1000L, I believe).
It’s a UEFI/GPT image and the system is in UEFI mode.

@george1421
Yes we’re using a single image which is being deployed to multiple machines.
We’re using a similar procedure to that which is described here: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Auto_driver_Install

Once it gets to that screen, it’s completely frozen. No command window, not even a caps lock light. I did manage to look at those files by just booting into Ubuntu and copying them off, and I didn’t see anything indicative of such an error.

The storage device is a hard drive.
Thanks for the help

Trying to deploy a Windows 7 x64 EFI image to a set of Lenovo Z70-80s. The image deployment appears to go successfully, up until the reboot, at which point Windows will, without fail, completely freeze at the “Setup is updating registry settings” stage. Having left the computer running over night, without progress, I am fairly certain that it is entirely stuck.
However, as it has not yet entered the OOBE, there is very little logging that I can find of any use. Additionally, if I attempt to boot the device into safe mode, it freezes when loading disk.sys.
Other research I have done has indicated that a BIOS update might potentially remedy the issue, but, conveniently, Lenovo appears to only provide an update utility which runs from within Windows. This means that I cannot update the BIOS on this machine, as Windows simply won’t boot.
It’s most certainly not an issue with the image, as I have successfully deployed it to multiple other machines
I’m pretty much lost here. Any suggestions as to how to diagnose this issue would be much appreciated.