A Service OS is a pre-installation environment that is based on a lightweight operating system such as Linux or Windows PE. The Service OS does the following things:
The Service OS is used to perform the following types of operations:
Whenever a Service OS starts, the Service OS screen appears on the pertinent device. When an OS image is being captured, for example, the Service OS screen appears on the reference machine. When an OS is being deployed, the Service OS screen appears on the target device.
The Windows PE Service OS screen shows you the status of the operation. The right side of Windows PE Service OS screen shows you a scrolling log of the steps that are being performed.
Information about the current step always appears at the bottom of the list of messages. A scroll bar appears on the far right if there is not enough room to list all of the messages.
If the operation is successful, a green check mark appears on the left side of the Service OS screen with further instructions.
At this point, you can take one of two actions:
After you click one of these buttons, a status message will appear briefly under the progress bar on the right side of the screen before the reboot or shutdown occurs.
If the operation is not successful, a red X appears on the left side of the Service OS screen with information about the nature of the failure. If the operation fails, you can use the scroll bar on the right side of the screen to view information about the hardware detected and determine where in the process the failure occurred. At this point, you can take one of three actions:
After you click one of these buttons, a status message will appear briefly under the progress bar on the right side of the screen before the action that you selected occurs.