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@surfboy sorry for late reply!

I've had even worse problems lately, so I am doing some troubleshooting; image speeds fall down to 1 GB / min, imaging lasts about 15-20 minutes. I have spare SSD 2.5" drive, SPPC, I've disconnected NVME, put SSD in and put image to that SSD drive - speeds are as expected, around 5.5 GB / min.

In desperation, I've created image with Aomei Backupper, which works through WinPE boot disk, and it works great. Speeds are around 120 MB / s, which was expected from cheap USB3 device, and it took around 5 minutes to finish.

So, linux drivers / support for NVME is the problem here, not network.

@theopenem_admin can something be done about that? WIE is currently not an option, unfortunately.

You would need to create a new image profile for these machines and add the argument to the image profile kernel arguments.

custom_hard_drives=/dev/sdb

or whatever the drive is

Then when you image those machines, select that profile.

@theopenem_admin Yes, I saved the changes, verified them by setting console as the default selection for boot menu, so it has been loaded. But no setting I've tried can change the keyboard once the login has been shown. I am guessing I will have to recreate the boot files, I think initrd will have to be reconfigured. I have access to linux OS (Rocky Linux 8 and 9) so I think I can do it, but I don't have knowhow - well, time to learn. Can it be done? Can I manually reconfigure it?

@theopenem_admin I'm dumb

You pointed me into right direction. It's not secure boot related, it's UEFI network boot related. It doesn't work. But, when I enable legacy mode and boot like that, it works. I guess I have to set up DHCP proxy on server.

@itisljar Hi, I have the same problems. Where you changed those stettings? Bests...

@theopenem_admin
Thank you. It works now.

@itisljar OK, to reply to myself, I've disabled in BIOS every other boot device that pointed to HDD except Windows Boot Loader, and made image with that, and it works.
Will do that as workaround.

Thanks, not sure why I did that. It's downloading the source instead of just the binaries.

What are you using for dhcp? Any screenshots / videos of the error would be helpful.