Upgrade to DS 6.9 slows down local boot option
Submitted by Crewman_5 on 20 August, 2008 - 05:02.
We have just upgraded from DS 6.5 to 6.9, and I have found that since the upgrade, if we reboot any of our PXE enabled servers they take a long to reboot when there is no job assigned to them. If there is an imaging job waiting then there is no problem.
When the server boots it goes through the normal PXE boot process and is assigned an IP address, but then the server just sits and waits at the following prompt:
Altiris, inc. X86 PreBoot, PXE-2. Enhanced
Build ID=400. . . . .
The dots progress slowly across the screen and after about 10 minutes it then launches the the boot options menu and carries on as normal. It seems to be waiting for something, possibly the multicast server? I've seen something similar when deploying Ghost images through a multicast.
This never used to happen in the previous version (6.5) so I wondered if there was a way to speed this up or stop it all together (apart from from switching off PXE booting).
Thanks
Slow local boot
Check out the fix (not the problem) in KB 39492 - some files/settings may not have been updated.
Also, look at 41043 (DOS), 41044 (Linux) and 41047 (WinPE)
It does sound like there is a problem with files/settings not having been updated.
May be a stupid question, but you did update the menu items/boot disks when you upgraded...? Sometimes not needed, but not necessarily a bad idea. PXE problems after upgrade are a mixed bag, and the answer may be multiple fixes.
Fixed...
As it turns out it was a setting in the PXE config. Under the DS tab I had it set to "Enable response to computers with active DS job assignments only"
Unchecked that option and suddenly booting was not such a pain any more.