@Tom-Elliott

I can’t modify the company’s switches or other hardware since the system is in production. I’m currently rebuilding the FOG server on a VM on my PC and doing everything locally; it’ll be easier to troubleshoot that way. Gemini has wiped out all the previous messages and is giving me nonsense—I can’t seem to recreate the environment up to the capture stage anymore. Could you give me a rundown of everything that needs to be done—downloads, decompressing specific files in binary mode, etc.?

Thanks.

@Tom-Elliott

Here are the two screenshots of the requested tests.

@Tom-Elliott

I tried your test and am sending you a screenshot; I’ll keep testing on my end, and if I have any good news, I’ll let you know.

@Tom-Elliott

My Raspeberry is :

RaspberryPI 4 2GB Model B

The settings might vary depending on the model?

@Tom-Elliott

Okay, thanks for the reply.

The OPNsense box does assign an IP address to the Raspberry Pi at startup—and it is always the same one, even though it is set to DHCP—but during the U-Boot boot process, it fails to find an IP address.

@Tom-Elliott

OPNsense:

Option 66: I correctly entered the FOG server’s IP address.

Option 67: I entered the filename ipxe.efi.

Do I always need to keep ipxe.efi in OPNsense?

@SimonGuenther

Hi, The blockage isn’t caused by a forgotten debug command, since that isn’t present in the deployment test; we have a managed switch right before the Raspberry Pi connection—that might be the issue. I’m discussing it with my colleagues at work to see how we can handle it.

@Tom-Elliott

Hi, I’m using a Proxmox bridged network interface, I can’t connect anywhere else because otherwise it wouldn’t be the same network, so we’re trying to find a solution on our end.

@Tom-Elliott

Regarding OPNsense, there isn’t anyone on the infrastructure team available to look into it right now; I can probably check on that Monday morning.

To be transparent with you, I’ve been retraining for a new career since February 2026 and only just obtained my IT diploma in July. What helps is that I’m persistent with projects and usually manage to get the job done. I’ll get back to you once I have the information regarding OPNsense.

@Tom-Elliott

I created a new snapshot to avoid losing data again and having to start everything from scratch; right now, I’m stuck on this page on the Raspberry Pi.