@sebastian-roth

Good news everyone.
Problem seems to be resolved, image is deployed normally.
Thank you for your investment and your speed.

@cello said in Dell Optiplex 7080 Network error:

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.

@george1421 said in Which USB 3.0 ethernet adapter?:

@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.

Now for a uefi computer making the computer boot iPXE from the flash usb drive is pretty easy. https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6350/usb-boot-uefi-client-into-fog-menu-easy-way Understand that “trick” only works for uefi based computers. BIOS computer’s can’t boot using this method.

Cool, thanks a lot !!

@sgtrice If your 7080 firmware/bios disk controller is in raid-on mode, you need to switch to ahci mode. Intel has not (even after 6 years) release the raid controller driver to the linux community. If you have only one drive and not using raid you can leave the disk mode as ahci with no loss of performance.

@thanhpn7188 I think it’s good you posted this in a new topic because it sounds like you have an issue with this hardware and we might try to help you to make it work. The other topic you posted is about hardware that does work fine with FOG.

Hint: I also renamed this topic to reflect what this seems to be about.

Now to the issue: FOG doesn’t see the disk? Often this is caused by BIOS/UEFI setting for the disk controller is RAID instead of AHCI. Be aware that this change will influence the Windows OS if it’s installed already.

@novaholic Hi,
I am facing with the same problem.
Have you managed to fix it?

Thanks

Hey I Just found a solution to this… when making the DHCP policy the snponly.efi file seemed to work (instead of ipxe.efi)… Hope this helps

@Eruthon Thanks for the quick feedback. Should be all fine now I think. No need to post partition files as long as it works for you now.

Another Lenovo device that seems to hang with that message as well: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/15463/lenovo-81cy-stuck-on-efi-stub

@sebastian-roth we may have found a workaround since we have a uefi/bios co-existence setup, we are trying to legacy boot to capture/deploy the uefi image. It appears to have worked. I am not sure I want to pursue this issue further since it is a very old model and a one off case.

I appreciate your help on the matter regardless, thank you.

@adamhyla89 said in 11th Gen Intel Kernel:

it states cannot open ` /var/www/fog/service/bzImage’ (no such file or directory)

Better copy & paste the commands to not miss anything. So again: file /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/bzImage* /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/bzImage*

The install on the VM is only command line, no GUI for Ubuntu.

There is no GUI (for Ubuntu) needed as you can access the FOG web UI from another computer. I guess you have used it already because how would you manage FOG or even get past the schema update when you don’t access the FOG web UI.

@sebastian-roth Many thanks Sebastian, I will do that.

@totalimpact See if you can get a good image capture with 11. I’m not saying this is the problem, but the higher the compression with zstd the more memory it requires because it needs to hold larger chunks of the image in ram memory.

The other option it could be is that we need to increase the amount of virtual hard drive space for FOS linux. But first lets see if lowering the compression ratio will help.

@sebastian-roth You correct, I just used the file of that new kernel and it worked.

@george1421

For those wondering who came across this thread like me: If you are using the built in DHCP server in ubuntu fog you need to edit the dhcp.conf file by opening a terminal and typing: sudo nano /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf and replacing “ipxe.efi” with “snponly.efi”. Worked fine with the M75s after making those changes.

@dmaret I have done some more reading on topics that show the same error messages (1, 2) and the more I read the more I can imagine the messages from the Realtek driver not to be the cause of the problem but maybe just one of the symptoms of a kernel issue (even a soft crash) just before that.

Do you have more than one of these Lenovo ThinkCentre M70a? Have you tried deploying to different ones? Do all show the same issue? Just trying to rule out this is not a hardware issue on one of the machines.

I am not too sure how to take this further. We don’t see other error messages on screen. Does the partclone screen seem to freeze completely after the error messages come up?

Maybe you can schedule a debug deploy task, boot up the machine, set a root password (command passwd), check the IP address (ip a s) and connect to it via SSH. Now you have two command shells to go ahead. Start the deployment (command fog) on the machine directly and step through it. Meanwhile also issue a command on the SSH shell just to see it’s still up and running. Especially when the blue partclone screen starts you want to stick around in the SSH shell to see if that freezes at some point - e.g. just type random characters to see if they appear on screen or stop at some point.

If partclone stops but your SSH shell still works, then run dmesg | tail -20, take a picture and post that here.

@george1421

Sorry for the late reply,1) and 2) are both correct recompiled ipxe.efi works fine

@greg-plamondon yes.

@detoss Looking back at your original post you mentioned it doesn’t compress the drive. If you watch the blue partclone screen its probably capturing in RAW mode. It will do that if you have bitlocker or any drive encryption system enabled. Since it can’t read the files it just does a RAW sector copy of the disk.