@ChrisJ said:

[quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 42587, member: 28116”]There are a couple of examples here in the forums. e.g.: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/boot-menu-iso-file-size.12442/[/url][/quote]

Thanks. That worked. Got the AVG ISO booting now.
If anyone is interested In Fog 1.2.0, in the fog configuration in the advanced config options text box I have this :

menu
item --gap – ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
item AVG AVG Antivirus scan
item Sophos Sophos Antivirus scan
item shell ipxe shell
item return return to previous menu
choose --default AVG --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

:AVG
initrd http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/iso/avg_arl_cdi_all_120_141126a8645.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
goto MENU

:Sophos
initrd http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/iso/sophosbootable.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
goto MENU

:shell
shell ||
goto MENU

:return
chain http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} ||
prompt
goto MENU

autoboot[/CODE]

Next task is to customise that iso so its got up to date definitions, sets the network and proxy appropriately and has 2 options “scan” and “custom” where scan just gets on with it (if nothing is selected) without asking loads of questions and custom gives access to the original ARL menu…

Very helpful @ChrisJ, thank you!

@Tom-Elliott Many thanks for going through the effort of remoting into my system and getting FOG_trunk installed. Really - my best gratitude.

I have now thoroughly tested the FOG_trunk version. And, most unfortunately, I can confirm that I still have the original issue of the Win7 image just booting to classpnp.sys. I basically went through all the steps listed below again.

Nonetheless, I’ll keep my eye on this project and give it a few tries in the future as more versions become available.

Thanks, now it works!

Here is a step by step for rhel 6 distros
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6074/extending-a-file-system-on-redhat-base-distros

@Tom-Elliott Hi Tom, updated to latest git release now and indeed its working again. I did only update a few days ago after your last fix re the flashing issue.

regards Kiweegie.

@jimmmmmmah We need people like you who try out the most current version of FOG and report bugs. Otherwise we wouldn’t be able to find and fix all the issues. Please give it another go and hopefully we can figure things out together. See my first answer on where to find the apache error log file.

From my point of view it’s not a bug. Save to ignore. There is no stable build newer than 1.2.0 at the moment. But Tom has reworked the scripts and you are more than welcome to upgrade to the latest trunk and test things.

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshoot_FTP

@Wayne-Workman roger that. Appreciate the input.

@george1421 That might work for getting imaging done in UEFI mode for this weird hardware, but I think that @tj.krause 's original problem is simply an exit to HDD issue in BIOS network booting mode. The OS is installed under UEFI / GPT but the network boot is Legacy - and things are not jiving.

@Tom-Elliott said:

@Scott-B right but you don’t have anything in the advanced items. There is the login and it is working fine. But the advanced menu is its own configuration setting that you put your needs in.

Ah… okay. I thought that was just called from fog.advancedlogin.

@Hanz inits do not rely on the fog client (hostname changer, printer manager, etc…) for booting the host. While it is possible to load ipxe https it is not enforced nor would I recommend it either.

I don’t know what issues you were having or why but if you rebooted the host after re running the installer the only guess I would have is the inits were not finished downloading when the host was trying to use the files.

For now I’m going to solve this thread as I’m fairly sure it is fixed after running the installer.

@Wayne-Workman no it wouldn’t matter. Beyond that the links go into mobile not the reverse so this would not have any impact unless you were going into mobile.

After capturing images from multiple machines, it looks like this issue is due to an incompatible BIOS in these old Dell machines.
I guess this issue can be marked solved…
Thanks for your help everyone

@John-L-Clark said:

I found it and increase to 512 and is working fine. Thanks

I bumped my php config up to 2GB for the similar issue with inventory blank screens. Overkill, maybe, but the server has 12GB and is only for FOG.

@Wayne-Workman yes, I have looked at this however I am not experiencing this inits… issue. Yet it is clear some are.

the only issue i experienced was the system failing to gain access to the ftp. but then i realized during the setup after lines (What is the storage location for your images directory? (/images)

Setting password for FOG User…OK New password set for:
username: xxx
password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

i then figured out that it assighned me totally new creditials i needed to input in the storage and tftp settings and wala back at smotth operating.

Found and fixed.

Thanks for reporting.

@Tom-Elliott Hi Tom, I’ve updated my old server during few month, and never seen that option. I’m on a fresh install, and I’ve not checked that 😛

I was not…and that worked like a dream!

Thank you so much!