Installation by WDS fails

[Swinzon]

Hey! I need some help with my Server, I have set up WDS a couple of montsh ago, it worked fine until now. 
Some weeks ago we had a terrifying internet casualty, our routers went down, multimodems etc... Total catasrophic loss

But we got it up and running, we also have two routers in our home, which my server is hooked up to. 
Now when I try to do a clean install of anything on any PC i get a error, that there is a issue resolving a IP adress from the DHCP server, make sure the DHCP server is avalible or something. So I can`t install via WDS! 
How to fix it without making a clean install of Windows Server ?

Server Manager show no error on WDS....

EDIT! The following error I get during the "Starting setup" is following: "

WdsClient: An error occoured while obtaining an IP adress from the DHCP server. Please chech to ensure there is a operational DHCP server on this network segment. 

"

[leadeater]

Is the PC you are trying to image on a different subnet than the server? Is DHCP actually working, can you boot to a temporary OS or make a WDS boot CD and test if you are actually getting addresses.

 

Sounds like a network issue not WDS, restart the WDS services if you haven't just to make sure and check events log etc for any errors.

 

Really simple network diagram would probably help.

[Swinzon]

33 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Is the PC you are trying to image on a different subnet than the server? Is DHCP actually working, can you boot to a temporary OS or make a WDS boot CD and test if you are actually getting addresses.

 

Sounds like a network issue not WDS, restart the WDS services if you haven't just to make sure and check events log etc for any errors.

 

Really simple network diagram would probably help.

They`re on the same Subnet, all OS`s work but I can`t start the installation...

[leadeater]

3 minutes ago, Swinzon said:

They`re on the same Subnet, all OS`s work but I can`t start the installation...

So PXE booting is working and you get in to WinPE and get that error or is it failing at PXE boot? More detailed error  will help and if you are making it in to WinPE open up cmd using shift + F10 if you have enabled debug support in the boot image and do some basic network tests: ipconfig, ping, nslookup etc.

[Swinzon]

2 minutes ago, leadeater said:

So PXE booting is working and you get in to WinPE and get that error or is it failing at PXE boot? More detailed error  will help and if you are making it in to WinPE open up cmd using shift + F10 if you have enabled debug support in the boot image and do some basic network tests: ipconfig, ping, nslookup etc.

The setup is starting, and after a minute or so I get the error. The setup doesn't start at all

[legopc]

The driver from the boot image is missing, thats why its not getting a dhcp address. Get the driver that works with the machine that you are trying to image and add it to the server.

[leadeater]

3 minutes ago, legopc said:

The driver from the boot image is missing, thats why its not getting a dhcp address. Get the driver that works with the machine that you are trying to image and add it to the server.

Yep that is correct, Windows 10 PE image was added which included the required driver and is now working last I heard. Details not in thread since we were debuging in private messages.