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WithinRafael
Jun 11, 2024Copper Contributor
WS2025 Preview (26100.1) fails to boot after joining WS2016 forest
I installed WS2025 Preview (Datacenter, 26100.1) in a virtual machine and after joining the domain, the box is rendered unbootable (boot loops). I can reinstall and do other tasks as a standalone server with no problem but joining the domain immediately bricks the VM, 100% of the time.
The forest is running at functional level WS2016. I disabled all GPs and verified with gpresult they are not applied.
Safe mode boots if you need me to poke around. Am working to get a kernel debugger attached.
No memory dump is generated and disabling reboot on errors yields nothing.
- aru_vmwCopper Contributor
WithinRafael Which hypervisor is your VM running on?