Yes I did try. Thank you for your suggestion. Still no luck. I think the problem has been narrowed down to the x131 having an advanced format drive. Any options that you know of to get around this?

@danvaida : by curiosity, have you been able to use FOG with these Lenovo ?

[quote=“JimW, post: 23671, member: 15518”]Yes, sorry, kernel 3.8.8 worked fine.[/quote]

Yes, it sure did! Thanks!

yes. Tom keeps this kernel up to date.

Thank you, sorry working on all the bug fixes.

Current version is 3.13.5 incase anyone’s wondering.

Thanks heimer14!

That link will definitely be useful!

You’re very welcome.

Very nice script!

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 23051, member: 7271”]Try changing the image type to multi-part non-resizable.

The reason it’s not working for you, is resizable is expecting only two partitions. The first partition it creates/searches for is the 100MB partition naturally created on a fully fresh install.[/quote]

Thanks, I’ll try that.

Cynithia Orum,

I believe you will have better luck trying to contact Matthew Hood thru conversation. He hasn’t been seen in quite a while, but usually a direct conversation will send an email to the person at least letting them know somebody is trying to communicate with them.

Thanks again. For anyone searching here is the wiki…

fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Build_TomElliott_Kernel

I will give it a shot once I can take that system down again. No screenshots since this is on baremetal, but I will take a photo and transcribe.

Excellent. I am now testing this against other systems I had failing to boot the previous kernel or register.

My guess is your trying to image using MBR, but the Drives are partitioned through GPT. Just saying, check it out.

This sounds like a hardware issue.

I’m assuming you’ve enabled PXE Boot from the Network in the BIOS?

If the USB NIC is disconnected, does the system (in bios) allow you to choose Network?

OK got it. Will give it a try today or tomorrow and see what happens. Need to do some scanning on some systems for this damn bug. Thanks for the help. I’ll be back…

Thanks Tom, You have been a big help. I actually understand more about the boot process now. I added the missing firmware file to lib/firmware/bnx2/… in the init.gz but it still didn’t work.

It does not appear that these desktops have UEFI capable BIOS, I searched pretty thoroughly through the BIOS options and came up empty. No worries though, I’m having them swapped for a couple of identical units. I was able to image two of the four successfully so I’m just going to chalk this up as bad luck for now.

Ooh. Sorry. I just boxed up my test T7600 once I got everything working. I can test it on a T7500, though. You won’t hear back for a bit, though. I’m taking the next couple of days off for Christmas.

Chris and Ted,

Can you please try my latest kernel?

I’ve added a whole lot of drivers dealing with the different types of Drive Controllers and anything, I found seeming relevant, to deal with SSD’s and what have you. I don’t know if it will help/work, but theoretically there’s enough information in the kernel from the 3.8.8 to now that things should work.

Thank you,

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