We’ve been asking Dell to support 64-bit WinPE for BIOS flashing for years now, and not made any headway. You can do it before the OS is applied on HP devices, but we had to move it to the middle of the process for Dell machines. (We moved to 64-bit media a couple of years ago to support UEFI and Windows 8.)
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miller, Todd Sent: Friday, May 8, 2015 5:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] Winpe bitness and OS Deployments The BIOS updates might be required for Bitlocker, and I would like to be able to pre-enable bitlocker before the OS is laid down to take advantage of the time savings. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Ratliff Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 3:48 PM To: '[email protected]'; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] Winpe bitness and OS Deployments Move your bios update to inside the os? -----Original Message----- From: Niall Brady [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 04:40 PM Eastern Standard Time To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MDT-OSD] Winpe bitness and OS Deployments why update the bios at all, unless it's needed, is it ? On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Miller, Todd <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I used to use 32bit WinPE to deploy both 64bit and 32bit OSes. But something happened a few months back where I had to switch so that the bitness of WinPE matched the OS being deployed. I think it was caused by driver injection problems, but I can’t remember exactly. I feel like I read the advice on DeploymentResearch.com, but I can’t find the post now. Anyway, matching the bitness fixed my problem. Now I am in a little trouble with this because I would like to update the BIOS on Dell computers during OS Deployment and it looks like Dell only has 32 bit versions of the BIOS updates available. I think I cannot run a 32bit executable to update BIOS while I am booted into a 64bit WinPE version. I could briefly boot into a 32bit WinPE boot disk while updating the BIOS and then continue on in WinPE 64bit, but the only two options for rebooting are into the Full OS or into the WinPE boot disk assigned to the Task Sequence. Is there a way for me to reboot into a specified WinPE image, update the BIOS, and then reboot back into the WinPE that is assigned to the task sequence? Is there a way out of this problem? One thing I can think of would be to do the BIOS update as a prehook before the real Task Sequence starts… ________________________________ Notice: This UI Health Care e-mail (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, then delete it. Thank you. ________________________________ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information. ________________________________ Notice: This UI Health Care e-mail (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, then delete it. Thank you. ________________________________ [CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY NOTICE] Information transmitted by this email is proprietary to Medtronic and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is private, privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or it appears that this mail has been forwarded to you without proper authority, you are notified that any use or dissemination of this information in any manner is strictly prohibited. In such cases, please delete this mail from your records. To view this notice in other languages you can either select the following link or manually copy and paste the link into the address bar of a web browser: http://emaildisclaimer.medtronic.com
