Wow, ok, just confirmed this appears to be a MAJOR bug in Workstation 9, pertaining ONLY to running 2 cores or 2 CPUs. I tested this with every configuration my laptop would support (its a quad core with hyperthreading). This applies in my case to Novell Zenworks Imaging, but could affect more.
| Config | PXE Results |
|---|---|
| 1 CPU, 1 Core | Success |
| 1 CPU, 2 Core | Fail |
| 1 CPU, 3 Core | Success |
| 1 CPU, 4 Core | Success |
| 1 CPU, 6 Core | Success |
| 1 CPU, 8 Core | Success |
| 2 CPU, 1 Core | Fail |
| 2 CPU, 2 Core | Success |
| 2 CPU, 3 Core | Success |
| 2 CPU, 4 Core | Success |
| 4 CPU, 1 Core | Success |
| 4 CPU, 2 Core | Success |
| 8 CPU, 1 Core | Success |
Now here's where it gets crazy. My issue seems to be with the Novell PreBoot Execution (PXE) Agent v11.2.0.0. It says "Sending queries to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" but then it never actually receives anything to continue the boot process, but ANY other CPU config other than 2 CPUs or 2 Cores works fine.