@LuisTemporal What kind of failures do you think might occur? Can’t promise you FOG will work with each and every hardware out there but as we rely on the Linux kernel as a basis the list of supported hardware is immense. It’s up to you though. FOG is open source and you can ask for help with specific hardware or even get your hands dirty and compile you own kernel with added drivers if needed.
We found that we had to fiddle with a good many settings in the bios including UEFI boot path security and a few others. Even then the only way we can get to it is by doing “F12” and manually choosing PXE Boot which is very strange. It works after that however. This can be closed out.
@george1421 Thank you for the assistance you have provided in this. , I can’t thank you guys enough for your support and hard work you guys do for the community.
Thank you guys both for the heads up!
Just got more of these models in stock.
Didn’t think about it until the imaging hung. (I have not updated FOG kernel…)
Using USB-C LAN adapters and those are helping to get the job done.
I may try updating the FOG kernel, in which case I’ll post here about results.
@sebastian-roth I’d like to join this chain since I’m running into these issues with the 7320s. As the previous models we’ve used had legacy boot, I believe I’ll need to configure the DHCP server to provide iPXE binaries. Is there a how-to you can recommend for this process?
MOD Note: In your case the issue is different than the OP of this thread. So with that in mind I would like you to start a new thread to discuss the issue. If we mix issues in one thread people who find the thread later on will get confused because the subject is X and then people start talking about Y. But to give you a little light reading before you create your own thread on the problem, look over this article. https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/BIOS_and_UEFI_Co-Existence#Using_Windows_Server_2012_.28R1_and_later.29_DHCP_Policy
in your most recent post make sure the policies are enabled on the dhcp server as well as you have all of the right hardware types defined both type 7 and 9 for 64 bit uefi.
@george1421 Yeah, it seems it was the drivers for the ethernet port itself that needed to be updated. So weird. You’d think that would have been tested before the device was even shipped out, too, but evidently not… It really is an odd one.
Thanks for sticking it out with us! The help is much appreciated.
First: DELL Optiplex 7080 works very well with FOG Version 5.10.34
Great to here! I should have some o7090s in the next few days (weeks) so those should work too. I don’t know why the integrated kernel update program did not work for you, but I’m glad you have it worked out.
I was getting similar myself with the ipxe Rom hanging at “iPXE initializing devices”. The solution was to build a fresh undionly.kpxe (https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/IPXE#Compile).
Before you bake, modify general.h to comment out or remove the following lines:
#define DOWNLOAD_PROTO_HTTPS
#define IMAGE_TRUST_CMD
#define CERT_CMD
Then compile, and copy the rom to your tftp folder.
@bristow-0 OK I can say I’ve never heard of an “LDLC Aurore” computer before. It must be a local French brand. If you want to pxe boot then you will need to get a usb network adapter that LDLC computer’s support.
This is Clevo. The good thing is that they provide PCs without OS.
