Article Number: 000132044
This article contains information about no loading progress bar showing when booting from PXE to deploy an Operating System (OS) via Windows Deployment Service (WDS).
When you PXE boot to the Windows Deployment Service to deploy an OS to install, you may not see a loading progress bar. This is because the wdsmgfw.efi on some PXE servers switch to the wgl4 font without using the adjusted resolution acquired from bootmgr.efi.
This leads to the display being mismatched while files load from the wdsmgfw.efi. So, while the booting image is loading, the loading progress bar will not be displayed as expected (Figure 1 and 2).
Figure 1
Figure 2
Affected systems:
To fix this behavior, you must remove the font file "wgl4_boot.ttf" under the "Boot\Fonts
" folder which contains the booting image for WDS.
If you have further questions about this article, contact Dell Technical Support.
Inspiron 7500, Inspiron 7501, Latitude 3410, Latitude 3510, Vostro 7500
21 Feb 2021
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