I’m having problems getting netinstall to work with Windows 7 (64 bits). I’ve disabled all virtual machines network interfaces, disabled windows firewall, trend micro firewall, even the antivirus too. When I run netinstall, it executes but nothing is shown in the Routers/Drives section. I activate the net booting option and connect my routerboard properly to the machine but it doesn’t boot and isn’t recognized by netinstall.
i repeat exactly the same procedure using another machine with Windows XP and everything goes fine and I can reinstall my RB.
Is there any issue regarding windows 7 that prevents netinstall to work properly? Is there any trick or workaround to make it work?
The specifications of my machine are the following:
Hello,
i have a similar problem. I see the router in the netinstall software and if i click on install the router are flashed but the software don`t install the device. After this action i must reinstall the router on Windows XP.
Select netinstall.exe properties, set it to be executed in compatibility mode (single or all users of the pc computer). I set it to XPSP3 and works like a charm.
I’m having the same problem with netinstall. I’ve tried it on two different windows 7 32-bit machines. The routerboard device does boot and wait for the installation server. Then in netinstall when I click on install the window flashes and the device reads “Ready” again. I have tried different firewall rules, different network locations and I get the same results.
I did try run netinstall as Administrator. I’ve tried everything but I still can not get any routerboard to load with netinstall. My XP box works just fine.
Next I will try and capture the traffic on the windows 7 box to see if it sends any traffic after I click the install button. Like I said before when I click the install button the windows just flashes and the routerboard device stats retuns to ready. Usally the progress bar moves as netstall sends the install to the device.
Have a RB1000 that runs 6.0beta2 and needs downgrading to 5.21.
/system package downgrade didn’t work at all - I tried different NPKs to no avail. The RB just spat out heaps of error messages and then the router booted into 6.0b2 anyways.
So I tried Netinstall on my Win7 64 bit machine.
Netinstall executes, but RB doesn’t boot from that. No way.
Tried running as admin/in compat mode/Firewall disabled/AV disabled… No joy.
Now uploading firmware to RB1000 via Serial/XMODEM @ a whooping 7.86KBps. I’ll know if it works out in about 30 minutes… :-/
You have to be really suborn pushing the reset button on the routerboard until it shows in netinstall … can take as much as 30 seconds. The other thing is that at each device there’s only single ether port that can be used for netinstall-ing. Mostly it’s ether1 but might be different (mostly on CCRs).
i am trying it on SXT which anyways has just one Ethernet port…
and no matter how long or hard i keep it pressed… the device somehow continue to the regular boot process… and this is happening with 2 SXT units and one RB450 board.
You can get serial cable and get some extra feedback from RB450. Maybe it will help with mastering the art of button pressing, and then you can apply it to SXTs.
Something I noticed recently when I tried Netinstall. Windows changes the location to “Public” which makes the firewall rules stricter, change this to “Private”
Solved Netinstall for me, below Powershell commands:
It was sort of joke, it’s just a stupid button after all. Although based on the result, it does look like it’s not easy to press it correctly.
But the recommendation still stands, try RB450 with serial cable. I’m not expecting anything specific to happen, but for the lack of better ideas… maybe it will show you something useful.
I didn’t have a problem with Netinstall personally yet, sometimes it did require more than one try, but it always worked eventually. But generally I hate these kinds of controls. “Press X second for reset, Y seconds for something else, …”, meh. Kingdom for single-purpose jumpers or something that’s impossible to use wrong. And serial port for every routerboard, even incomplete with additional components required to make it work, but enabled by default and usable for pre-boot use.
