Just test built a p50 via OSD in cm12 (we are not the newest release yet). I am using the latest win10 os and adk build. I injected a few drivers to the wim but that was after building the laptop successfully.
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 2:59 PM Kish n Kepi <[email protected]> wrote: > The ThinkPad P50 comes with intel’s i219_LM network card, whose drivers > are not included even in the most recent release of Windows 10 (1602). > > > > I tried injecting the drivers I downloaded from Lenovo and from intel and > didn’t succeed in creating a working boot wim until I injected them into > the original Windows 8 boot.wim. That is, the injection and creating of > the customized boot.wim succeeded, but I couldn’t access the network using > that boot.wim, until I injected into the original Windows 8 boot.wim > > > > Anyway, I was able to boot using my customized boot.wim and succeeded in > capturing an image of the P50 and uploading it to my WDS server. > Unfortunately, I was completely unable to deploy the captured image to new > P50 machines. It would go through the entire process, showing the nice > green check marks, and only at the very end would it throw an error message > > > > Lest you think there is a problem in the captured image – there isn’t. > After failing to deploy from WDS, I booted from USB and deployed the > customized install wim using dism and it worked fine. I was also able to > deploy this install.wim from WDS into a standard VM on my ESX. And yes, > this image is 64-bit, UEFI and GPT > > > > My guess, based on a lot of research with no clear cut conclusions, is > that in the final pass of checks, Windows decided it didn’t like the > network drivers and killed the deploy, even though the deploy was almost > complete. By using USB, I bypassed using the network drivers and succeeded. > > > > So, my questions: > > 1. Has anyone succeeded in injecting network drivers into a later > version of boot.wim than windows 8.0 and succeed in accessing the network? > > 2. Has anyone succeeded in deploying to a P50 or the newest > generation of computers with Intel’s newest NICs, over the network from WDS? > > > > Kish >
