Panasonic Toughbook Cf-54 Boot From Usb

[Zee Petty]

Ifdesperate you could always boot up a Live Ubuntu on a USB stick which is a very good tool to have around. If it works then it is your Windows USB stick and if it does not it is something deeper. See: Create a bootable USB stick with Rufus on Windows Ubuntu

Open ImgBurn and choose Mode -> Build, or use the Ctrl+Alt+B option. This opens Build Mode and you will see this screen. From here, you can add/remove files or folders to your ISO. You can choose to type the folder location in the drop down box,...

Just a thought. The toughbook comes installed with Windows 10. When trying to boot from a USB stick, I seem to remember that you had to do a full shutdown from within Windows so that it was not in some hibernation mode before the USB boot option appeared. See: 2 Ways to Perform a Full Shutdown in Windows 10

If it is not recognising the USB stick as it boots then it will not give you the USB option. So with you USB plugged in press the on switch and try mashing F10/11/12. On some systems the USB must have the boot flag set as well (I use gparted for that one).

As an experiment you could try Ubuntu on a USB stick. Create a bootable USB stick with Rufus on Windows Ubuntu

I seem to be running into a continious loop of being unsuccessful trying to image a Toughbook CF-53 using SCCM/Config Manager 2007. If I let the computer boot into Win7, I'm able to install the SCCM Client manually and then run an advertisement no problem. The laptop will go through the image process no problem to install Win7 x64.

But the minute I try to run a task sequence in the WinPE environment via PXE, I don't get any network connectivity. This particular laptop uses the Intel 82579LM network card. So basically it won't do anything except restart the laptop. I've done a bunch of research on the web and it looks like other people are having the same problem with this network card (Intel 82579LM).

People on the web said to use the older Vista drivers of the Intel 82579LM network card, but the problem is that I can't inject those into our customer boot image because it will error out. I'm able to import them into the SCCM/Config Manager Driver Store no problem.

A few days ago we were able to boot off a USB thumb drive to run the task sequence no problem, but for testing purposes that's all good, but I don't really want to stick a thumb drive into a 100 of these laptops.

What process did you use to load the toughbooks via thumb drive? Just an ISO or expanded copy of the Windows setup DVD? If so, was it tablet-specific, or can we load Windows 7 Pro 32-bit from the standard download of our Enterprise intalls? Otherwise, were you able to somehow copy a ".WIM" file onto USB and use that? Thanks for any info!

To do this you need windows vista/2008 or higher. Run the configuration manager console on that machine and on your task sequence that you have created right click on it. Now click on create bootable media (can't remember exactly), follow the wizard and it will create your task sequence offline and on bootable media.

Sorry if its a bit wrong but from memory that's how I did it. I moved jobs and no longer use sccm 2007, in my new job I am migrating from SMS 2003 to 2012! So no longer have a console for reference, however if you do get stuck let me know and I will build up a test rig and give better instruction, always fun.

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