Mac netboot image not opening as it should. What am I missing?
I created a netboot environment for Mac OSx 10.7 from the installer off of the apple store from a 10.7.3 Lion Mac. Was finally able to successfully upload to the kace by changing the date of the computer previous to March 21. I run the MAC in verbose mode while booting to the kace and it finds the kace and says it is loading the netboot image.
It goes back to a white screen, then appears to hang after that. What am I missing?
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If the machine is netbooting across subnets and it has the newest apple efi firmware (2.2) which allows network recovery from Apple's servers then it won't work. It appears that a lot of people are seeing this problem. If you're not booting across subnets then it's not a firmware issue. Hopefully this will at least remove a variable from your troubleshooting.
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check this link. It may apply to your situation: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3337689?start=0&tstart=0 - mark_pell 12 years ago
Hi i'm having near the same issue, did you resolved it ?
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Just spoke to the Kace Management and Developer Team. They do not fully support netbooting across subnets using iphelper. They also do NOT have it in the que for a future feature release. They believe that using an RSA on every vlan is adequate. The only way they will consider this important is based on votes. I found out we have to vote on things like this. I can't believe they consider booting outside of your imaging servers vlan as a "feature". Oh well, it's their rules, we just pay for them....
Please vote here: http://kace.uservoice.com/forums/82717-k2000/suggestions/1687565-mac-netbooting-across-subnets
Without the votes, it WILL NOT happen. - lkalis 10 years ago
Please vote here: http://kace.uservoice.com/forums/82717-k2000/suggestions/1687565-mac-netbooting-across-subnets
Without the votes, it WILL NOT happen. - lkalis 10 years ago