@mm-Ekimia I’m confused what you’re trying to replicate.
While I understand you may not want to wait 5 minutes, it seems a bit extraordinary to be working so hard to come up with a FOG like solution that doesn’t involve actually use FOG as it was intended. All this time to image 20 HDD’s would’ve taken about an hour worth of time including the 5 minute pxe boot time if you simply just grabbed a few extra laptops, registered and then tasked them.
Of note with this, it sounds like these Skylake laptops are attempting to boot VIA UEFI? UEFI booting is supported with FOG but as far as the implementation as handled from the NIC itself is outside of “FOG’s” realm of control. If it’s taking UEFI NIC booting 5 minutes, why not just tell the BIOS to boot nic in legacy mode? (Of which I’m pretty sure will NOT take 5 minutes to boot).
Now here’s where I’m confused about why you need to create, essentially, a FOG like solution on your side.
You don’t want to wait the 5 minutes of booting into the NIC. This is the ONLY reason, as far as I can see, as to why you don’t want to just use FOG as it was intended. Now we’ve been a week at this with back and forth information. When you initially made the posting asking for assistance, if you had installed FOG, had 5 of these laptops, inserted an HDD into each one, booted the system through PXE and telling that system to image. Run this 4 times, you’d have all 20 HDD’s complete within about an hour (give or take a little).
If you had 20 laptops all at once, you’d probably be done in about 30 minutes to an hour if you ran it through a multicast task.
I don’t know what the end goal is. I think FOG is perfectly capable of imaging these disks regardless of how long PXE takes to load up. You’d have been done by now if you had just waited the extra 5 minutes or so per system.
