This post is for users who start a new PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) Client to connect to a Microsoft WDS (Windows Deployment Services) server and receive the following error: WdsClient: An Error occurred while obtaining an IP address from the DHCP Server
You’re probably thinking, “What changed? My image worked just fine on the last laptop!”
Most likely, it is your NIC driver on the new PXE client.
Normally you can inject the drivers through the WDS server. However, sometimes (especially with Windows 10) injecting drivers through WDS doesn’t work.
If that’s the case, you’ll need to manually inject drivers into the Boot.wim file to allow PXE client computers to recognize their network card. This is also true for any other types of drivers that you need to add to the image as well.
Prepare:
Execute:
NOTE: You must inject the drivers into both indexes – index:1 and index:2
Deploy:
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