#1
Posted 15 November 2011 - 03:39 AM
i have already set up a legacy PXE server, but now i have requirements to install OS with UEFI BIOS, what should i do to change existing PXE server? thanks in advance!
#2
Posted 15 November 2011 - 02:51 PM
As far as Windows is concerned, if you do a BIOS PXE boot and image/deploy to a HDD as GPT, WinPE cannot write to a UEFI drive from a BIOS boot device.
#3
Posted 17 November 2011 - 08:52 AM
i did not quite understand what the above sentence mean. as far as i know, the only job of WInPE to help lead setup of the windows OS installation, and then download windows image to your local machine by TFTP, then using WAIK to auto/manually install OS. winpe have on idea whether you are doing a legacy or UEFI install, it completely depends on the config in your file Autounattend.xml
#4
Posted 17 November 2011 - 03:49 PM
#5
Posted 17 November 2011 - 04:00 PM
Yes/No.I seem to recall that you also can't get higher than a 2TB format on a converted GPT disk.
There are two limits, one at around 2 Tb (OS induced):
http://www.ghacks.ne...-on-windows-xp/
and one at around 3 Tb if I recall correctly.
Just for the record Gigabyte made something about it:
http://news.softpedi...ds-191912.shtml
Wonko
#6
Posted 17 November 2011 - 04:07 PM
http://www.msfn.org/...post__p__978276
#7
Posted 18 November 2011 - 01:16 AM
You can see in my previous post (in your other eerily similar topic) that you cannot do a UEFI boot from a NIC. The only way you can deploy to UEFI (or more importantly, to GPT) is to use a CD or DVD. Supposedly it may be possible to do a UEFI boot to a USB key, but I never figured it out.
As far as Windows is concerned, if you do a BIOS PXE boot and image/deploy to a HDD as GPT, WinPE cannot write to a UEFI drive from a BIOS boot device.
Do you mean if use WInPE to boot UEFI install, the hard disk could not be installed once. because next time WinPE could not see the DPT hard disk?
#8
Posted 18 November 2011 - 04:26 PM
Also tagged with one or more of these keywords: uefi
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