I have SCCM 2012 SP1 on Server 2008 R2 and for the life of me, I cannot get PXE booting to work. When I enable PXE on my DP it installs WDS, the folders in remoteinstall are populated as expected, but I get "PXE-E53: No boot filename received" when I try to boot.

If I remove everything, install WDS on the server my test machine will get a boot file and try and boot off of it (but without any boot images, I get the expected error there). If, at that point, I enable PXE in SCCM, the SCCM boot files copy over, but I am back to the PXE-E53 error.

does anyone have any idea what's happening here? I figure I could manually copy the SCCM boot files into the WDS directories and it'll work, but I'd like to do it the recommended way if I can.

What details are in the SMSPXE.log

Did you enable "Deploy this boot image from the PXE service Point" on both x86 and x64 boot image ?

Take a look at the following on Windows Noob and check that you have completed all the steps

http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/6353-using-system-center-2012-configuration-manager-part-7-build-and-capture-windows-7-x64-sp1/

Hi Jeremy,

Try deleting the the folder "C:\Windows\Temp\PXEBootFiles" and restart WDS service. That should copy the boot files. If you are unable to delete the folder stop WDS Service, take ownership and delete it.

It was indeed there. Thanks! There are quite a few lines like this in the log:

Client boot action reply: <ClientIDReply><Identification Unknown="0" ItemKey="16778179" ServerName="" ServerRemoteName=""><Machine><ClientID/><NetbiosName/></Machine></Identification><PXEBootAction LastPXEAdvertisementID="" LastPXEAdvertisementTime="" OfferID="" OfferIDTime="" PkgID="" PackageVersion="" PackagePath="" BootImageID="" Mandatory=""/></ClientIDReply>
	SMSPXE	8/1/2013 9:11:32 AM	2520 (0x09D8)
00:50:56:BC:16:01, 9EBE3C42-E10E-E6DB-A544-89D9DC4FC671: no advertisements found	SMSPXE	8/1/2013 9:11:32 AM	2520 (0x09D8)
00:50:56:BC:16:01, 9EBE3C42-E10E-E6DB-A544-89D9DC4FC671: No boot action. Aborted.	SMSPXE	8/1/2013 9:11:32 AM	2520 (0x09D8)
00:50:56:BC:16:01, 9EBE3C42-E10E-E6DB-A544-89D9DC4FC671: Not serviced.	SMSPXE	8/1/2013 9:11:32 AM	2520 (0x09D8)

I do have advertisements enabled for PXE deployment and advertised to the All Systems and Unknown Systems collections. I can image using boot media without a problem. Any ideas?

Have you deployed both boot images to the PXE-enabled DP and have you checked the option "Deploy this boot image from the PXE service point" in the properties of the boot images?

yes, and the images are in \remoteinstall\smsimages

I have the "deploy this bot image from the PXE service point" option checked and the boot files are coping over properly. There is no smspxe.log on the server though. I have checked in \sms_dp$\sms\logs and \sms\logs on the DP server.

c:\windows\temp\pxebootfiles does not exist on my server and the boot files are present in the remoteinstall folder.

I've never seen a working PXE-enabled DP without that logfile, so you might want to remove PXE (which will automatically uninstall WDS), reboot and re-add it again. Monitor distmgr.log (on the site server) and smsdpprov.log (on the PXE-enabled DP).

On the DP, SMSPXE.log will be under C:\Windows\CCM\Logs

Regards,

Manohar Pusala

Hope the machine you are testing do not have any previous PXE advertisement flags. If so, please clear PXE advertisment by right clicking on the machine in SCCM Console.