So, after spending two days trying to figure it out, I came up with a solution that works best for my situation for the moment until I can figure out how to use syslinux with uefi boot. The USB NIC works after loading bzImage which is great.

I forgot to mention but this has been something I’ve been trying to figure out with the Surface Pro 1 from Microsoft since I don’t have the funds to purchase a crapload of $40 Microsoft Ethernet to USB adapters which are the only ones that support PXE boot natively.

I used this [B][URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Bootable_Media’]guide [/URL][/B]as proof of concept to see if I could hit the FOG 0.32 running in a VM, and it seems like I can but unless I replace syslinux.cfg every time I create a task for a new host since the MAC address changes. I could use the capone plug-in I guess, but that doesn’t solve my problem of booting with UEFI and syslinux and bzImage/init.gz. I was able to run everything in the boot menu, but anything that required a reboot (hence an imaging task) required me to overwrite syslinux.cfg manually. At least if I could get an EFI bootable stick to hit the FOG server (1.1.0) then I could do a hardware inventory on it instead of having to manually add the MAC address of all the devices.

My solution for the time being seems to be using CloneZilla and DRBL using samba to individually image or multicast image, or, use an ISO that I created with Win8.1SE on a USB which will load a ramimage of Win 8.1 as a live OS that even allows for wireless imaging since I have a licensed version of Ghost 11.5 copied into the image.

Lastly, I still want to use FOG to pick these up and join them to the domain / printer management / snap in management so once they reboot and sysprep, they should connect and do these once they boot into the OS.

In a perfect world, I’d be able to use an EFI bootable USB like the guide describes using a bios bootable version of syslinux with bzImage to hit the FOG server, register so I can create an imaging task, then reboot and hit the FOG server again without having to replace syslinux.cfg to customize the mac for the over 100 tablets that I plan on imaging :).

I have no problems rehosting that, but all of the kernel’s I’ve been building have the “ALLNET” identifier by default now.

Just wanted to add clarity for you all.

I will try with R61 i have one here.

The reason the kernel takes a while is because of all the drivers it has to load.

Basic kernel 101 here:

Kernel’s are the foot print that communicates system devices with the software layer of the OS.

With this, especially so in Linux, some systems don’t care what has to be loaded to boot, others care very much, as is the case with your laptops here.

The reason it takes a while is because it’s loading the kernel and loading all the drivers in the system. Then the kernel checks the system for what it needs. If you where to have debug displayed, you’d likely see things failing all over the place as the driver being loaded doesn’t exist or is unusable on a particular system.

I can’t tell you WHY it’s fast on some and slow on the others. Just understand this is the case.

I’m wondering if the issues we are having are being caused by the kernel like OP. We can create an image but can’t push it out to machines. Our original FOG server was ver.29 and it would seem to create an image and when pushed out to the machines the process would run. When finished we would get the Windows 7 splash screen and after that a black screen with mouse cursor. We decided to do a fresh install of FOG 1.0.1 on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS. The problem we have run into now is once the image is created we can push out the image but once we PXE boot the EliteBook that is to receive the image, the process starts we get the FOG graphic and through to “starting image push”. At this point we get a message that says “Task is complete, computer will restart.”
Thank you for any insight you can give this frustrated intern.

ah yes, version 1.0.1

Searched the forums, most of what I found did not apply the rest did not help. Also tried loading old kernels, result was different error messages (thus my suspicion that its the bzImage file) but still no fog screen. Even tried creating the host manually and assigning an upload task.

If I’m wrong hopefully I can get pointed in the right direction. the host is a Windows Server 2008 R2
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Thank you and I hope more success.

personally, i would recommend using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. haven’t had many people report problems with that. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is too new, we haven’t had a chance to fix all the issues with it.

Thanks for the info.

[quote=“Sivasubramaniam.T, post: 25002, member: 22852”]Hi Tom,

I have tried the kernel with few others models. Its working absolutely fine with some new models.

[B]Good Working with below Models :[/B]
Dell Latitude 5420
Dell Latitude 6420
Dell Latitude 5440
Lenovo L440

[SIZE=3][B]Delay in loading kernel with below models :[/B][/SIZE]
Dell Vostro 3400
Dell Vostro 3460
Dell Vostro 3450 (i3)

[SIZE=3][B][I]Problem :[/I][/B][/SIZE] Its taking 4 to 5 minutes to load the kernel to perform any tasks.
[COLOR=#ff6600]esas2r : driver will not be loaded because no ATTO esas2r devices were found [/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff6600]i2c-parport-light: adapter type unspecified [/COLOR]
After 5 minutes its performing the tasks in a normal way.
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[B]Problematic Model :[/B]
Dell Vostro 3450 (i5)

Kernel have stopped at this line once the kernel is loaded
[COLOR=#ff6600]esas2r : driver will not be loaded because no ATTO esas2r devices were found [/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff6600]i2c-parport-light: adapter type unspecified [/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff6600]IP-Config:Reopening network devices.[/COLOR]…
No Process after this.
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Sorry for long description. Please help in solving this issue.[/quote]

AN EMERGENCY ON YOUR PART DOES NOT CONSTITUTE ONE ON MINE!

I realize you want help, but I can’t possibly tell you why or what is wrong. The esas2r message doesn’t mean anything, but it’s telling you that the kernel has not found that driver and can’t load it. same with the i2c-parport-light.

What the kernel’s doing after that I don’t know. It’s fast on some, slow on others, and yet others it doesn’t work at all. I don’t know what to say to help.

The best I can do is recompile and try different things.

But I don’t have the systems to build against.

I’m sorry that my kernels have failed you thus far!

Awesome Tom It works!

And one more thing, the pxe boot is much faster than earlyer 🙂

you’re welcome.

[B]systemctl enable servicename.service[/B]

That should set them to start on boot.

Fedora’s docmentation:
[url]http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-Services_and_Daemons.html[/url]

Excellent! Haha that’s a great solution. Thank you very much.

The error was because I had the image set to single partition, when there were two partitions on disk. The first partition was a Dell recovery partition.

For the interested, I recorded a video of the original graphics problem: [media=youtube]KQtLIqUWeQk[/media]

Hi,
my english is not good, sorry. Into my east german school I must learning the russian language …

The SSD-Image is “downloaded” properly. The “upload” or “deployed” I will testing into the future ( one or two hours). I seeing freeze of the Client from time to time …
Yes, the FOG-Host is a very slowly Pentium4-Machine.

Thank you for the answer and I wish you a good time.

Glad to hear it’s working.

currently, 3.13.6

A 64 bit kernel is not compatible with a 32 bit init.gz. The 32 bit kernel I provide is the same as the 64, but in 32 bit mode.

[url]https://mastacontrola.com/fogboot/kernel/bzImage32[/url]

many thanks chad and eric , this has saved my bacon , please keep up the good work

laptop/netbbok is an asus x552c , had to disbale uefi , blast hdd to remove gpt format and use the custom kernel above

BIG UP TO YOU ALL from a linux/ubuntu fog newbie

Hi Tom,

after I have now removed the broken network-hub and now again use the FOG Version 0.32 , everything seems to work very satisfactorily .

I have learned over the past few days a lot about Linux and FOG.
If, nevertheless, again if problems arise , I am back.

Once again many thanks for the support with my first steps with FOG and friendly greetings.