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OS Deployment - Freeze
Published: January 20, 2026 - 11:09 AM
by Clafon
WAPT Version: 2.6.1.17654
Server OS: Debian 12
Administration Machine OS: Windows Server 2019
Target Machine OS: Windows 11
Hello,
We just received new workstations (HP ProBook 4 G1IR 16) and we are unable to deploy Windows 11 with WAPT.
We have correctly added the network drivers to WinPE.
The workstations freeze once WinPE is selected (Register Host WinPE x64), when it is on:
media/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/BCD...ok
media/Boot/boot.sdi... ok
media/sources/boot.wim... 3%
Have you encountered this problem? Thank you
Re: OS Deployment - Freezes
Published: January 20, 2026 - 1:26 PM
by sfonteneau
Hello,
are you using ipxe.efi or snponly.efi?
Re: OS Deployment - Freezes
Published: January 20, 2026 - 1:44 PM
by Clafon
I would say ipxe
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Re: OS Deployment - Freezes
Published: January 20, 2026 - 2:55 PM
by sfonteneau
No, you're currently using "snponly.efi"
, so it's using the HP firmware's UEFI (SNP) network stack.
You can try switching to "ipxe.efi" as the value instead of "snponly.efi";
this will use the native iPXE driver.
Normally, the opposite is often better, but anyway...
Re: OS Deployment - Freezes
Published: January 20, 2026 - 5:18 PM
by Clafon
Tested with IPXE but same problem...
Re: OS Deployment - Freezes
Published: January 21, 2026 - 09:35
by sfonteneau
I don't have much to test here because I don't have your model
Another idea to try:
You can run this command on your Wapt server:
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/opt/wapt/waptserver/scripts/compile_ipxe.sh
This will retrieve the latest commit from the IPXE GitHub repository
https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe then compile the latest version (this may take a while)
This will compile custom IPXE files for you:
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ls -l /var/www/wads/pxe/*custom*
-rw------- 1 wapt www-data 1042944 Oct 30 12:24 /var/www/wads/pxe/ipxe_custom.efi
-rw------- 1 wapt www-data 209920 Oct 30 12:24 /var/www/wads/pxe/snponly_custom.efi
-rw------- 1 wapt www-data 71685 Oct 30 12:24 /var/www/wads/pxe/undionly_custom.kpxe
In your DHCP settings, you can try using ipxe_custom.efi or snponly_custom.efi
If it doesn't work, then it would seem to be a problem in IPXE.
In that case, consider switching to a pure TFTP Windows configuration:
https://www.wapt.fr/fr/doc/wapt-wads.ht ... figuration
This mode no longer uses IPXE
Re: OS Deployment - Freezes
Published: January 22, 2026 - 11:04 AM
by Clafon
Hello Simon,
So I followed the given procedure:
- /opt/wapt/waptserver/scripts/compile_ipxe.sh
- In DHCP, modify the PXE option to snponly_custom.efi
The PXE is no longer working at all. The workstations can no longer "connect" to the PXE
Re: OS Deployment - Freezes
Published: January 22, 2026 - 11:24 AM
by sfonteneau
clafon wrote: ↑Jan 22, 2026 - 11:04 AM
The PXE is no longer working at all. The workstations can no longer "connect" to the PXE.
On no PC?
Re: OS Deployment - Freezes
Published: January 22, 2026 - 11:41
by Clafon
none
Re: OS Deployment - Freezes
Published: January 22, 2026 - 1:46 PM
by sfonteneau
Does the file actually exist?