{"id":121,"date":"2013-10-15T15:16:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T14:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/?p=121"},"modified":"2013-10-15T15:18:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T14:18:41","slug":"getting-pxe-boot-to-work-on-new-toshiba-satellite-pro-c70-laptop-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/2013\/10\/15\/getting-pxe-boot-to-work-on-new-toshiba-satellite-pro-c70-laptop-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting PXE Boot to work on new Toshiba Satellite Pro (C70) laptop range."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased a new 17.3 inch widescreen Toshiba Satellite Pro C70 laptop for a senior academic colleague. The device came pre-installed with Windows 8, but, since the requirement was for Windows 7, I decided to completely rebuild it by injecting it with a new network image via WDS and PXE booting over our fast network. Sounds straightforward, right? Wrong! It took me a while to figure out &#8211; and I hope this may help anyone who may be coincidentally having similar problems. First, I needed to access the BIOS. Since I had already booted into Windows 8, I found that the bells and whistles of Windows 8 hibernation features \u00a0interfered with BIOS access. I overcame this by pressing and holding the SHIFT key down whilst performing a complete system shut down. Only releasing the SHIFT key on COMPLETE shut down (lights off!). \u00a0Next, I held F2 key down whilst booting \u00a0to enter the BIOS. Since this is a new laptop, it has the UEFI \u00a0(<em>Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)\u00a0<\/em>boot mode feature, which I needed to change to the legacy CSM (<em>Compatibility Support Module)\u00a0<\/em>mode. This was found in Advanced &#8230; System Configuration &#8230; Boot Mode section of the BIOS. \u00a0I saved the changes, again shutting down whilst holding down the SHIFT key. Booting up, I held down the F12 key simultaneously, to enter the Boot Menu. I was then able to pick network (LAN) boot, and successfully PXE network boot to our WDS menu, thereafter choosing the appropriate 64-bit WIndows 7 Enterprise image. Phew! I hope this helps anyone who may find a) problems entering newish Toshiba Satellite BIOSes and b) then finds they cannot PXE boot.<\/p>\n<p>PXE-boots (below) &#8211; all the rage at Enterprise outlets these days &#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2013\/10\/pixie_boot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-122\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2013\/10\/pixie_boot-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2013\/10\/pixie_boot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2013\/10\/pixie_boot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/files\/2013\/10\/pixie_boot.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased a new 17.3 inch widescreen Toshiba Satellite Pro C70 laptop for a senior academic colleague. The device came pre-installed with Windows 8, but, since the requirement was for Windows 7, I decided to completely rebuild it by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/2013\/10\/15\/getting-pxe-boot-to-work-on-new-toshiba-satellite-pro-c70-laptop-range\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-deployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidlowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}