I was able to solve my issues with Archlinux. Arch has a special iso image called archboot which is used for PXE installs. I downloaded the archboot initramfs.img and vmlinuz files and set them up in the advanced menu. The system boots them perfectly!

Now I just need to figure out why my computer won’t load my Win 7 install ISO into RAM. I know, I know, I should just make a universal image with sysprep, but the install disk will be for those rare cases where you absolutely need to start from scratch.

Hey everyone!

I’ve been using Fog at my work for a few weeks now and I love it so far. It’s way more convenient than ghost! Recently I’ve been making use of the advanced menu in order to install CentOS on machines, and that’s been great too. So much so, it made me wonder about installing Windows from the Fog server. So I took my install disk’s iso image and set it to boot with “initrd /path/to/my/Win7.iso”, followed by chain memdisk iso raw ||. I assume this loads the entire iso into a RAM disk and then my computer attempts to boot from this RAM disk. Is this correct? I have a machine with 8GB of memory, more than enough to support a 4GB disk. I booted to Fog, selected my image, and after downloading, the image returns an error saying something about memdisk ending with a fractional cylinder, and that the image might be truncated. It then refuses to boot. Does anyone know what might be causing this? I checked my iso against it’s checksum and it should be fine. My Arch Linux install behaves similarly when booted to in this manner. It won’t fail immediately like Windows, it loads the GUI boot menu and when it fails to mount a disk it reverts to a fallback prompt.

Lastly I was wondering about Arch Linux as an advanced menu option. Arch provides iso files as well as it’s own iPXE environment. Is there any way I can boot to the latter out of Fog? When I added CentOS to the menu, I actually picked apart the iso and pulled out the kernel image as well as the initrd. Is this how I should be going about Arch as well?

Thanks! Sorry about the wall of text!

Edit: And sorry this is in the wrong subforum!

What’s the difference between Aru’s method of booting (sanboot) and Junkhacker’s method (initrd and chain memdisk) when it comes to booting a Windows iso? I have an image of my Windows 7 installer disk, and was wondering.

Edit: I done goofed.

[URL=‘https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcs6cavaJi1qas872o1_500.gif’]Woooh![/URL] Thanks!

Also, thanks for the time and effort you put into Fog! I see that you offer the option to mine a cryptocurrency in order to support Fog. If the machine I’m using for this Fog server was mine I would, but sadly it’s my workplace’s so I can’t. Do you have a donation wallet?

Hello!

I’ve been using FOG for a little while now and I just recently had to reinstall it to upgrade from .32 to 1.0.1. My first install worked, however this new install does not. The installer hangs on, “Starting Multicast Management Server…Failed”.

Originally I’d thought it might have been some leftovers from the old install messing with the new one. So I reformatted the drive, but I’m having the same issue.

I’d read in the CentOS 5 instructions for v .32, that this might happen and that I just needed to run the install script again. I did several times, but it got hung up on the same spot every time.
EDIT: To clarify, I followed the instructions on this site for CentOS 6.4, but referenced the version 5 instructions when I Googled the issue that I’m having.

To add some extra detail, it seems that the services are running alright, but they refuse to stop. I can start them but I can’t stop them. Their log files are nonexistent. Lastly, I checked mysql and a fog database didn’t exist, so I created one and gave the root user access to it without the use of a password. After that didn’t work I tried uninstalling mysql and httpd and letting the script reinstall them.

I recall the installer ONE TIME getting to the Image Replicator setup, and then failing there, but since then it’s consistently failed at the Multicast server setup.

iptables should be off completely and selinux should be set to disabled. The proper timezone is set in php.ini. Both dmesg and the httpd error_log appear to not know anything useful.

CentOS 6.5
FOG Version: 1.0.1

Help! \o/----^ <-- That’s a shark and I’m the little guy in the water there.

EDIT 2: If I can get this working, I’ll write a detailed tutorial for installing Fog 1.0.1 on CentOS 6.5 and include a whole truck load of troubleshooting information.

Hi all!

I’ve been working on moving the default storage location of the newest version of Fog. I followed [URL=‘http://topgearit.net/index.php?title=Change_FOG_Image_Storage_Location’]this guide[/URL] to the letter, and everything is working with the exception of the storage reporting done by the web interface. It looks like the SPACE_DEFAULT_STORAGE variable was moved from the freespace.php file to a different location. Has anyone looked into this? I think I found something similar in one of the files under commons, but I’m not positive it’s the same thing. It should also be noted that the commons directory is now under the /var/www/html/fog directory.