Got it. We downloaded the HP Smatr Start Scripting Kit, and it included drivers for this blade. My co-worker reports that he was able to get the Win PE environment to work on the blade using the drivers from this kit.
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Michael Leone <oozerd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Still having trouble with this. The blade has 2 NIC ports, and we > disable one of them in the BIOS of the blade in question. The Win PE > 2.0 environment still reports that there is no network card, tho. > Claims that the "network card is not in a permissable state". It shows > no NIC card at all. I don't deal with the Win PE environment we have, > but my co-worker says that the drivers from HP for the NIC in the BL > 460 G6 do not support booting into a Win PE environment, so he is > trying the generic drivers from Broadcom (the manufacturers of the > NIC). > > My boss thinks that perhaps he might have to configure the Virtual > Connect interface (this is the blade administration interface) to play > with the settings for the virtual switch that the blade uses. I > confess that I am lost at this point (both with this suggestion about > re-configuring Virtual Connect, and where to go from here). > > The end result we want to get to: convert a VM to a physical, but > without using the recommended method of using sysprep. This VM is one > of those mission-critical ones, but unfortunately my DBAs have not > been able to re-create a working version of it, so I *have* to use > this VM. And for licensing reasons, I have to move it to a physical > machine. But since it's so fragile, I can't take a chance on using > sysprep (if the transfer to physical doesn't work, I need turn the VM > back on and keep it in production, until I can get it to work. And I > can't take a chance that using sysprep won't screw something up. > > Anybody? I'm almost at the point of taking a full backup using EMC > Networker, doing a BMR to the blade, and then doing a repair > installation to add the blade specific drivers, so it'll boot and > work. I am less than confident about that procedure, too ... I'd much > prefer to take an image of the VM using LANDesk, and using Win PE to > put it on the blade. > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Mike Leone <oozerd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 11/22/2011 3:04 PM, Steven Peck wrote: >> >> I am not rightly the right guy on details, but we found that you really had >> to get the 'first' discovered network for SCCM deployment on WinPE boot >> media. We disable the physical NICs down to one, then it worked for us. >> Once the server is finished, we re-enabled the NICs. >> >> Usign the cmdline to test connectivity always worked with all NICs enabled, >> only disabling the extra NICs let the image deployment stuff work. >> >> >> Hmm ... OK, I will see if he can disable one of the 2 NIC ports on the blade >> itself. Thanks >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Mike Leone <oozerd...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> We have an HP BL460 G6 blade center. It uses a Broadcom 10G NIC (the HP ID >>> is NC532i). Anyway, we're trying to boot one of the blades into our Win PE >>> 2.0 environment, so we can push a server image down onto it. And we're >>> having problems. Apparently, the NIC doesn't seem to support that. We can >>> PXE boot properly; we can connect to the PE server. But we can't seem to >>> find a driver that will load in the PE environment. We've tried the HP >>> drivers and they don't seem to load. >>> >>> Anybody using an HP BL460 G6 with a PE 2.0 environment? And if so, what >>> drivers did you use in the PE environment? The "regular" Windows drivers >>> don't seem to work in the PE environment. >>> >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> --- >>> To manage subscriptions click here: >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
