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May 14th, 2019 22:00
USB Boot not working for E5491 with symentec Ghost 11.5
I did create an USB Boot for E5491 but I am getting following error
when i tried to boot with it Error:
Unable to locate the PCI LAN Adapter/ The following are possible causes:
1. The system may not support the PCI bus.
2. The PCI adapter may not be properly installed in a slot.
3. Some of the PCI adapter resources in configuration space may be invalid. Check for possible errors listed above and run adapter diagnostics.
Failure: Driver did not load, NDIS environment invalid.
I did download the driver for MS-DOS from intel ® Ethernet Connection I219-LM , PRODOS.exe 23.5.2 I made following changes on to the USB boot but still i am getting the same error any help very much appreciated as we have an bulk order for E5491
Autoexec.bat
@echo off
prompt $p$g
\net\netbind.com
MOUSE.COM
cd \ghost
echo Loading..
GHOST.EXE -fni
Also remember to add the driver name to the protocol.inf, so it looks like this:
[protman]
drivername=PROTMAN$
[pktdrv]
drivername=PKTDRV$
bindings=nic
intvec=0x60
chainvec=0x66
[nic]
drivername = e1000$
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May 15th, 2019 07:00
I'm not remotely surprised you're having hardware detection issues here, and I doubt you'll find a workaround. The simple reality is that the E5491 is a brand new system. Based on your post, Ghost is still using MS-DOS (unbelievable....), so I'm not sure how you expect such an ancient solution to work on brand new hardware, or why you'd even try to cling to such an ancient solution. At the very least you'd have to enable Legacy Boot Support to even allow a DOS-based environment to boot, and fyi Intel has said that they're going to stop supporting Legacy Boot in their CPUs soon, at which point you won't be able to boot that Ghost environment at all. So you might as well start looking for a replacement. We dumped Ghost a decade ago when we moved from XP to Windows 7.
If you want a solid, modern cloning/imaging solution, look at Macrium Reflect. That product is available in a free version all the way up to enterprise-oriented centrally managed options. If you just want to use it for image deployment rather than backups, it sounds like you'd want the Deployment Kit licensing option.
Or if you have a Windows Server installation in your environment and want something a bit more capable, WDS is a great tool for mass deployments and it's included in the Windows Server license. One of my favorite features is dynamic driver injection, so when you want to push a new driver going forward (or a new set of drivers to support a new system model), you don't have to create and capture a new image. Instead, you just import the new driver into the WDS library and it pushes that driver to appropriate client systems during the imaging process.
But either way, both Reflect and WDS have bootable environments that run on Windows PE, which means they support UEFI booting (including Secure Boot) and newer technologies like USB 3.0 and NVMe, both of which are likely to be further stumbling blocks for Ghost that would become at least irritating if not total dealbreakers.