Panasonic CF-54 Toughbook Tough to Image

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I just updated to the latest Snap Deploy 5.0.1749 and I and trying to create an image and deploy it to a stack of Toughbooks.  I've done many Lenovo and Dell machines in the past without too much trouble, but the Panasonics have always been tricky.  I am hoping the deployed machines can all end up with UEFI Secure Boot as the new 1749 is said to support that.  Right now I'm having trouble making the image to do that.  

I'm using the PXE boot from our server as usual.  The CF-54 to be imaged has UEFI Secure Boot enabled.  I have to switch the Boot Mode from Normal to Compatible to get the Acronis menu to load onto the machine to be imaged.  After I select the Image Creator option I get the
Runtime Error 0x1480012
line info 0x76df0d19c4c8565a
$module: bootwiz_efia64

In the past I have been able to get it to go by 'dumbing it down' and going with a legacy BIOS boot.  I really would like to keep the Secure boot on, or at least be able to have it enabled on the machines that are deployed.  I've tried many combinations of settings but possibly not all of them.  May I have a little guidance?

 

Tue, 12/19/2017 - 19:36
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Update.  When I disable Secure Boot I am able to create the image. 

To get a deployment to complete, I must also disable Secure Boot and switch to Compatible boot mode.  To start the machine after that I just set the UEFI to boot from hard drive instead of LAN and when I try to start Windows the first time I get the Recovery screen with the Error code 0xc000000e, "A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed."  All three partitions are in the image and set to deploy.

I'm burning through deployment licenses trying different settings that I believe should work here.

 

Tue, 12/19/2017 - 21:36
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The immediate problem has passed.  Since the last update I successfully created an image and deployed a couple dozen CF53s with Normal mode UEFI boot by setting the boot device to LAN and disabling Secure Boot for the image creation and deployment.  Then I enable Secure Boot when I wake the newly imaged machine up and it all works fine.  Using these exact same settings on the CF54s machines produces the errors mentioned previously.

Fortunately in this case, only about a dozen CF54s were needed and I was able create for them individually bespoke handcrafted artisanal machines.  Next time though, I would like to get this figured out so I can just deploy an image.

Tue, 01/02/2018 - 15:29
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Edit: Disregard. Was able to sucessfuly deploy image.

So what were the steps you have to take to image these machines?

How do I access the selective boot menu so I don't have to go into the bios everytime and specify it to boot to USB?

Mon, 03/26/2018 - 14:48