23 August 2011

DS7.x How to add NIC and Mass Storage drivers to Preboot Configurations and/or DeployAnywhere.

Why it may be Needed

This is required when drivers are needed that are not already bundled into the WinPE build.
Common Symptom:

The most common manifestation of a missing driver is the inability to boot to WinPE with the error: "Restarting DHCP client service retry 1..." which will repeat 19 times before giving up and booting without network support. This generally indicates that a driver required for the NIC in the system booting to WinPE is missing, and can't bind correctly to the card, thus can't send a valid DHCP request.

Procedure can be found here