topic SmartScripting and WinPE2005 in ProLiant Deployment and Provisioning

SmartScripting and WinPE2005

Thomas Sords — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:26:31 GMT

I have been banging my head against a wall for the past few days here. I am a long term SmartScript toolkit user (original DL380), and have had a problem with the newer servers and WinPE. When I attempted to refresh the toolkit for my new G5's, I can't get the sysmgmt service to start on boot. Everything I have read points to a wrong version of PE, but I have confirmed that I am using WinPE2005 (1.6). Any ideas? Every boot, at the 'net start sysmgmt' line it errors that sysmgmt is not a known service.

Thank you
Thomas

Re: SmartScripting and WinPE2005

Alex Meneses — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:43:21 GMT

Hi Thomas,

I'm new to using the SmartStart Toolkit (Win32 v1.6). I'm experiencing the same issue. I'm testing on a DL380 G5. I have seen a similer post "http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=946284" about this. They make reference to the version of WinPE you should be using with the version of SSSTK. I've checked the documentation for the 1.6 version and I am using the correct WinPE 2005 version. And I also ran the /pnp and /wmi switch when creating my WinPE files.

I hope someone can shed some light on this....

Re: SmartScripting and WinPE2005

Rixtrix — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:29:45 GMT

Hi Thomas
Are you sure tha you adding the winpe2005psp770x86.exe from 1.6?
and dont do anything else here is what am doing to get it to work.

1. create C:\WinPEBuildTools

2. copy orginalPEfiles (from ison) \WinPE\*.* WinPEBuildTools

3. copy orginalPEfiles (from ison) \Tools\x86\*.* WinPEBuildTools

4. cd WinPEBuildTools
mkimg.cmd E:\ C:\BuildPE /PnP /WMI (E:\ to win2003 sp1)

5.

6. add hp (run winpe2005psp750x86.exe)och place files to d:\buildpe\i386
lÃ¤gg till HP sata drivrutinerna
Dont do anything els before you have done 7.

7. C:\WinPEBuildTools>BUILDOPTIONALCOMPONENTS.VBS /s:E:\ /C:\buildpe /ado /hta /wsh /x

C:\WinPEBuildTools>BUILDOPTIONALCOMPONENTS.VBS /s:E:\ /C:\buildpe /hta /wsh /x

I386
Program Files
Servers (my server lib)
w2k3srvsp1 (os files)

8. Make ISO
C:\WinPEBuildTools>oscdimg -n -h -lWIP -betfsboot.com G:\buildpe G:\wip061113Beta12.iso -m

Re: SmartScripting and WinPE2005

Alex Meneses — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:13:13 GMT

What does the VBS scripts do??

C:\WinPEBuildTools>BUILDOPTIONALCOMPONENTS.VBS /s:E:\ /C:\buildpe /ado /hta /wsh /x

C:\WinPEBuildTools>BUILDOPTIONALCOMPONENTS.VBS /s:E:\ /C:\buildpe /hta /wsh /x

Re: SmartScripting and WinPE2005

Alex Meneses — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:06:04 GMT

HI Rixtrix,

I tried the steps that you noted and I'm still not able to start the SYSMGMT service in the WINPE session. Any other ideas?