@jla This is fixed in FOG 1.5.3. Because 1.5.3 was released days ago, and this post from 30 days ago says it was fixed in working-branch: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11875/snapin-upload-limit-of-8mb-is-too-small So my advice to you is update to 1.5.3 and see how it goes.

@wayne-workman Ok cool, I will look into it, Thank you.

@george1421

Yes, sorry to have disturbed you

@george1421 I am pretty sure it comes down to the Nvidia NVS 310 GPU’s for me. It may even come down to the specific make/model of them, but all of my Dell Precision T3620’s have them. The i7-6700 in each also has built in Intel iGPU.

The NVS 310 has 2x DP connections, and when connected to either the UEFI menu renders scrambled and vertically smashed. Switching to a motherboard output, using the iGPU, it renders as expected. Come to think of it, it was also scrambling and condensing the ESXi installer…at the time I presumed it was ESXi, but now I am certain it was the specific GPU.

You may even recall me “complaining” that the text size/resolution was different in UEFI vs BIOS. This is not the case using the iGPU for me. Now BIOS and UEFI are identical in size and format.

@george1421 said in iPXE Menu Colors Help:

I know messing with the iPXE colors is a bit mind blowing

Its especially hard when half the settings dont change anything because your GPU/background removal has rendered them moot (and your not aware of it). For me the problem was even with documentation and going through it meticulously as soon as I would start to wrap my head around it I would make a change and nothing would happen (or something other than expected), which would lead to presuming I didnt have my head around it. For example setting rgb either has no effect or results in transparency or a default color when in fallback mode. So imagine setting an rgb value to what you know is blue and getting white instead. Makes you question things lol.

After switching GPU’s and getting it to render in normal mode and not fallback, I have sorted out the formatting and added my own background.

Like you I have the multi-gpu setting on auto, have been using BIOS 2.6.1 and 2.8.1 (thats how long I have been working on this lol) and had leading up to this a single monitor connected DP to the NVS 310 (now the iGPU motherboard DP port).

To be honest, if it was my personal computer I would likely look into firmware updates for the NVS…but in my case I am happy just using the iGPU for staging. Thanks for the input

@steveo (I’m only considering creating fog storage nodes using fog) well since you have so many and they are all physical there should be a way to use FOG to clone the storage nodes. I need to think about the best approach here. But you should be able to install the OS, and at least download the fog repo to the system.

Here is where it get into some speculation.

Now when you install fog, it creates a .fogsettings file. The .fogsettings file lists all of answers to the questions you supplied when you first installed fog. So when you reinstall fog like during an upgrade the installer will reference that file instead of asking the user questions over again. I wonder if we can leverage that by dropping that file in the proper location during storage node image deployment. Then running the installer with the -y command post deployment?? The only caveat here is that you should only install FOG once the storage node has its forever IP address. There is a script to reset the IP address after the fact to. Its just depends on what ever is easiest. You also should probably consider how you will seed the storage node before you send it out to the remote location.

Also during image deployment, you can have the fog master node give the fog storage node its name. Once your storage nodes have been created you won’t need them in the fog database unless you want to reimage them again.

With that many storage nodes, you might consider setting up a dedicated mysql server. Remember that storage nodes don’t have a local database, it uses the database on the master (root) fog server. That will be 400 open connections.

@tom-elliott I expected that may be the case. I did not mean to imply any issue, just observations in case someone is impatient (I almost tried a reboot while it was on #2).

Now its back to trying to get the colors of the menu the way I’d like (https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11972/ipxe-menu-colors-help).

Thanks

@amerhbb that’s a matter of opinion but I really like it.

@george1421 Yep they are all exactly the same hardware.

What are your thoughts on the Fedora issue I am having?

Thanks again for all your help!

@fallingwax Yes, look in the history table in the database. It’s only available via SQL.

@zago123
Here is a link that explains how to format/create partitions. You will need a Windows boot media. So when you get this up, you will need to identify which partition you want to do which task to (format, create, etc.). Make sure you are careful with this and do the wrong partition by mistake.

Links:

https://davidzych.com/install-windows-10-from-a-usb-flash-drive/

https://davidzych.com/install-windows-10-from-a-usb-flash-drive/

@fredlwal You could go under the host you’re working with, then to basic tasks, then click advanced. That gives you a drop down menu where you should see fast or full/normal wipe towards the bottom.

@Wayne-Workman Ahhh, now I see. Looking at the certificate on the website I see that there was a new one issued not long ago. Certificate date begins at 08.05.2018! Just wondering why I don’t run into the same issue. Maybe your git is keeping some kind of certificate cache?

Thank you for your answers @Wayne-Workman and @Quazz ! Now, I see better what is this software.

I think you could, technically, teach a frog how to create an array, but I suppose you mean fog?

Could anyone help me with just getting the colors as per my original post. I have been in the iPXE General Config | Menu colors, pairing, settings for hours and cant wrap my head around whats whats.

Put simply, here is the color scheme I am aiming for:

title text and selected text to be 0x0077c8 (selected text white background) background black unselected text white

Right now both UEFI and BIOS are greyish title, white selected text with red background, red unselected text. Its really hard on the eyes.

I have been mulling over:
http://ipxe.org/cmd/cpair
http://ipxe.org/cmd/colour

and my boot.php and just cant wrap my head around what changes what. I have tried playing around with it and the results so far have been 100% not what I expected making it impossible to gain any traction on it. Some options I cahnge and expect to see a difference appear to do nothing, others I change and expect a certain element/color to change and something completely different changes.

Thank you

@george1421 Thanks, this seems to work but with installfog.sh -y (without the -U option).

For future readers: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Password_Central

@george1421
Thank you. It is all that I needed to know!