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Hi,
I work for a company that provides automated OS installations (Windows and Linux) for it's users/customers.
I am having problems to install Win11 24h2 with an unattended installation. After the WinPE part/setup.exe the machine doesn't start and just cycles in the loading icon of the first reboot and does nothing.
The same unattend.xml works fine on Win11 23h2.
The installation procedure: The machine first boots into a linux image, prepartitions the drive, copies files onto the disk (WinPE), patches the unattend.xml and then reboots into the WinPE.
I discovered it must have to do something with the
section in my unattend.xml. When I just comment it out or remove it, the installation runs fine. But this isn't a solution as this works good on a single disk and system but will most likely fail on a multidisk system.
This is what the section looks like
Code:
As we already have a proper partitioning done in the linux bootimage the unattend.xml doesn't need a CreatePartition section.
Within the OOBE we run scripts located on the WinPE partition.
Any suggestion what might cause the issue with 24h2? This works fine on Windows 10 and previous Windows 11 versions
Regards
raddirad
I work for a company that provides automated OS installations (Windows and Linux) for it's users/customers.
I am having problems to install Win11 24h2 with an unattended installation. After the WinPE part/setup.exe the machine doesn't start and just cycles in the loading icon of the first reboot and does nothing.
The same unattend.xml works fine on Win11 23h2.
The installation procedure: The machine first boots into a linux image, prepartitions the drive, copies files onto the disk (WinPE), patches the unattend.xml and then reboots into the WinPE.
I discovered it must have to do something with the
XML:
<ModifyPartitions>
section in my unattend.xml. When I just comment it out or remove it, the installation runs fine. But this isn't a solution as this works good on a single disk and system but will most likely fail on a multidisk system.
This is what the section looks like
Code:
XML:
<ModifyPartitions>
<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
<Format>NTFS</Format>
<Label>WINDOWS</Label>
<Letter>C</Letter>
<Order>1</Order>
<PartitionID>3</PartitionID>
</ModifyPartition>
<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
<Label>WINPE</Label>
<Letter>X</Letter>
<Order>2</Order>
<PartitionID>4</PartitionID>
</ModifyPartition>
</ModifyPartitions>
As we already have a proper partitioning done in the linux bootimage the unattend.xml doesn't need a CreatePartition section.
Within the OOBE we run scripts located on the WinPE partition.
Any suggestion what might cause the issue with 24h2? This works fine on Windows 10 and previous Windows 11 versions
Regards
raddirad