Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Imaging Lenovo Desktops

We were setting up some Lenovo 3000 J Series desktops for a customer, and had quite a time imaging them. Got the first one setup, then attempted to image to the others. Began getting the following error when we would boot the newly imaged disk:

-----START SNIP-----
verifying DMI pool data

There as been a signature failure
-----END SNIP-----

Turns out that the IBM Rescue and Recovery stuff (Client Security) didn't like the way we imaged, and/or the fact that we ran sysprep before imaging. After messing around with a lot of different stuff, finally found that if we started up Ghost with the "Image Boot" switch (ghost.exe -ib) and then did a disk-to-disk image, everything worked correctly.


Josh Phillips
ProVisionIT
www.provisionit.com

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