download with WDS very slow

[Alphakarem]

(2012-11-10 08:14)robinsmidsrod Wrote:  The packet trace screenshot you put up didn't really help, but you might have a problem on your network that makes the TFTP downloads that WDS uses much slower than usual. You might have luck using wimboot to boot your WinPE images directly instead of relying on the Microsoft-supplied tools for booting into WDS. The SSCM iPXE howto might also be of interest.

the Slowness on WDS has been resolved, I verified the issue isn't with iPXE but rather a problem with BOOTMGR.EXE. you need an older version of BOOTMGR.EXE, the one from Windows Vista proved reliable and deliver good performance. This Solution was found here http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Foru...bd6faf02ef

From a Vista CD 32bit extract bootmgr.exe from the file boot.wim located under sources file, to extract you must have WAIK installed and from the WAIK CLI type :

imagex /mount e:\vistax86\boot.wim 2 e:/mounted_images

then simply copy the file bootmgr.exe from e:/mounted_images folder to both your x86 and X64 folders paste their overwriting what you have there.

Hopefully that helps someone else.