It is unfortunate that I had to end up going this route, but it is definately the easiest to support. I reduced my image process down to 1 reboot so I don't have to wait for it to load each time. It is also the easiest environment to add new drivers to with 'Have Disk'. This will support the Vista/2008 drivers and seems to have the best driver support. I would recommend refinning your process and using WinPE2. Painfully, I have went from DOS > Linux > WinPE2. It always seems like things are supported in the 'next version' when you find or get an answer from support. They compile but do not work during a PXE boot. I have had no luck compiling any Linux driver files against the 2.6.18.8 kernel so far. I've opened a case with both HP and Altiris on this -hoping that a pincer attack on Intel will get us what we need. This is a pain for our HII process as this is purely linux based now. So, for us the resolution is to use DOS until Linux support is available. DOS is great for getting these odd controllers imaged (its a shame Altiris have de-emphasised DOS in DS).ģ] Haven't tried imaging with WinPE 1.6 or WinPE 2.1 as yet, as we'd had a succession of PXE based imaging issues with WinPE which have put us off for life. We can get Linux agent communication though using the e1000.ko driver which we installed previously to get comms working for the dc7800 -so good news there.Ģ] Imaging with the Microsoft DOS UNDI environment works a treat as long as you put the BIOS into IDE mode. Intel have not released ICH10 Linux drivers and this seems to be the core of the problem. We've finally got the HP dc7900 and this is what we've found so far.ġ] Imaging with Linux is NOT supported in either the IDE or AHCI BIOS modes for the controller.

Hp standard sata ahci controller driver