Surface Pro 3

[djm79]

We are looking to deploy Surface Pro 3 but we want to be able to image them from Opsi. I can't seem to get it to PXE boot the pxeboot.0 file has anyone had any luck with this?

[d.oertel]

Hi,

Yes - i had installed surface pro and, surface pro 2 with opsi.
And I know about customers that installed successfully surface pro 3.

The main thing you need to know: the surface tablets are using a uefi only bios.
That means you will need the opsi extension uefi-support to handle netboot with this kind of tablets.

cheers
d.oertel

[djm79]

Could you point me in the right direction for how to set this up and test it with the surface Pro we have?

[d.oertel]

Hi,

just start here:
http://download.uib.de/opsi_stable/doc/ ... anual-uefi

cheers
d.oertel

[djm79]

Could you give me the layout of the pxelinux.cfg folder because when I boot to the elilo.efi it say no config file found using interactive mode so I think Im missing something or when I ran the upgrade it didn't set something up right.

[d.oertel]

Hi,

You have to mark your client as UEFI-Client. Therefor:
You have to create an empty config 'clientconfig.dhcpd.filename' at the server-configuration / Host Parameters
Than have to choose your UEFI client and set at the 'Host parameters' the value for this config to

Code: Alles auswählen

clientconfig.dhcpd.filename=linux/pxelinux.cfg/elilo.efi

You need an activation file /etc/opsi/modules) which activates the opsi-UEFI extension.
(You may get for evaluation a temporary Version - just send an email to info@uib.de)

If this is done and you switch a netboot product on a uefi client to setup, a elilo configuration will be created in /tftplinux/linux/pxelinux.cfg/01-<MAC-Adress> for the client

cheers
d.oertel

[djm79]

Even with that option set on the client in the Opsi menu it still hangs on reboot at the pxe menu with a screen full of dots. Any other ideas as to why the Surface Pro would be hanging there?

[d.oertel]

Hi,

check the content of your
/tftplinux/linux/pxelinux.cfg/01-<MAC-Adress>
named pipe :
Here are two examples how they should look like for elilio or pxelinux (non uefi)

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---------- elilo config: ------------------------
/tftpboot/linux/pxelinux.cfg# cat 01-00-0c-29-ee-76-45
default=opsi
timeout=0

image=/linux/install-x64
label=opsi
append="initrd=/linux/miniroot-x64.bz2 video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=normal --no-log dn=uib.local product=win8-x64 hn=do-win7-64-efi pckey=123456 service=https://192.168.1.14:4447/rpc"
initrd=/linux/miniroot-x64.bz2

---------- pxelinux config: ------------------------
/tftpboot/linux/pxelinux.cfg# cat 01-00-0c-29-87-fd-15
default opsi-install

label opsi-install
  kernel install
  append initrd=miniroot.bz2 video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=791 quiet splash --no-log dn=uib.local product=opsi-local-image-win81-x64 hn=do-oli-mbr pckey=123456 service=https://192.168.1.14:4447/rpc
----------------------------

Do you found a elilo configuration ?

cheers
d.oertel

[djm79]

No it is not creating one at all when the surface boots

[d.oertel]

Hi,

the
/tftplinux/linux/pxelinux.cfg/01-<MAC-Address>
is created when you set for a netboot product the action request to 'setup'.

How does it looks like ?

cheers
d.oertel