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• FOG Problems

  Technical help directly related to FOG.
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  Hi! I found the problem. I was reinstall the Linux and FOG (without https). And all PC-s booting now. Everything looks fine.

• Hardware Compatibility

  Problems with specific computer models.
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  @aurfalien If you are still on this quest. What we would need is the hardware id of this network adapter. You can get this from windows in the device manager. We would need the vend and device IDs.

  If in linux then use lspci -nn to get the device IDs. They will be 2 sets of 4 character hex numbers within the square brackets separated by a colon. i.e. [8086:1b4e].

  With that code we can see if there are standard linux kernel drivers for this network adapter.

• Windows Problems

  Technical help related to a Windows Problem.
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  BSOD with Windows 11 24H2 - Automatic Repair - SrtTrail after FOG deployment and restart

  SOLVED

  This are the steps for the BSOD error FIX. The problem was that after you deployed the FOG image and a few restarts the system enters in BSOD and then remains stuck with nothing else to do.

  Enter in WSIM (Windows System Image Manager) when you finished all your steps before the sysprep command Select your windows image on the left corner window Select the distribution share on the left-up side window Select your Answer File from the center window Now, all you have to do is to add/change some lines in your answer file

  Step 1:

  Windows Image – extend: Components – find: amd64_Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup_neutral

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  Right click Add Setting to Pass 7 oobeSystem:

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  Now, for the Answer file side:

  Extend oobeSystem

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  Extend amd64_Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup_neutral

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  Right click on FirstLogonCommands and Insert New SynchronousCommand

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  You have to insert 3 times (Insert New SynchronousCommand) and you will end up with 3 empty cubes (I have one in the picture because I already finished them, and in the final step they will look fill with a little green plus on left)

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  Left click on SynchronousCommand (The first) and add the lines like below. Left click on SynchronousCommand (The second) and add the lines like below. Left click on SynchronousCommand (The third) and add the lines like below.

  First Line:

  Command line: bcdedit -set {current} osdevice partition=C:

  Description: BCD Fix 1

  Order: 1

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  Second Line:

  Command line: bcdedit -set {current} device partition=C:

  Description: BCD Fix 2

  Order: 2

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  Third Line:

  Command line: bcdedit -set {memdiag} device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1

  Description: BCD Fix 3

  Order: 3

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  At the final step, they will look like this:

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  Now, Validate your Answer File, save it and you are done, problem solved! 🙂

  P.S: This is the site that helped me and I made a tutorial step by step with screenshots how to solve it.

  https://www.elevenforum.com/t/windows-11-deployment-issues-after-sysprep.32682/

• Linux Problems

  Technical help related to a Linux Problem.

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  Hi
  I have followed this https://docs.fogproject.org/en/latest/kb/reference/fog-client-installation-options/#linux-client to Install SmartInstaller.exe in Linux Ubuntu v.22.04.5, and while Fog server pinning it gets failed throwing 403 forbidden while downloading CA certificate.

  The installation is like this…

  sudo mono SmartInstaller.exe

  …#######:.    …,#,…     .::##::.
                 .:######          .:;####:…;#;…
                 …##…        …##;,;##::::.##…
                    ,#          …##…##:::##     …::
                    ##    .::###,##.   . ##.::#.:######::.
                 …##:::###::…#. …  .#…#. #…#:::.
                 …:####:…    …##…##::##  …  #
                     #  .      …##:,;##;:::#: … ##…
                    .#  .       .:;####;::::.##:::;#:…
                     #                     …:;###…

  ###########################################
                 #     FOG                                 #
                 #     Free Computer Imaging Solution      #
                 #                                         #
                 #     https://www.fogproject.org/         #
                 #                                         #
                 #     Credits:                            #
                 #     https://fogproject.org/Credits      #
                 #     GNU GPL Version 3                   #
                 ###########################################
                 #           FOG Service Installer         #

  ------------------------------------License-----------------------------------

  FOG Service Copyright © 2014-2023 FOG Project
  This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
  conditions. See your FOG server under ‘FOG Configuration’ -> ‘License’ for
  further information.

  ----------------------------------Information---------------------------------

  Version…0.13.0
  OS…Linux
  Current Path…/root
  Install Location…/opt/fog-service
  Systemd…True
  Initd…False

  -----------------------------------Configure----------------------------------

  FOG Server address [default: fogserver]: <FOG_SERVER_IP>
  Webroot [default: /fog]:
  Enable tray icon? [Y/n]:                 Y

  Your hostname is <MY_SYSTEM_NAME>
  This exceeds the 15 character limit.
  Auto registration will not run until this is fixed.
  Press ENTER to proceed with installation.
  Version…0.13.0

  Start FOG Service when done? [Y/n]:      S…Linux

  ----------------------------------Installing----------------------------------

  Getting things ready…[Pass]
  Installing files…[Pass]
  Saving Configuration…[Pass]
  Applying Configuration…[Pass]
  Pinning FOG Project…[Pass]
  Pinning Server…[Fail]

  Installation failed, cleaning system

  -----------------------------------Uninstall----------------------------------

  Uninstalling…[Pass]

  -----------------------------------Finished-----------------------------------

  See /root/SmartInstaller.log for more information.

  The SmartInstaller logs are like this : 3/18/2025 3:13:20 PM Installer Settings successfully saved in /opt/fog-service/settings.json
  3/18/2025 3:13:20 PM Middleware::Communication Download: http://<FOG_SERVER_IP>/fog/management/other/ca.cert.der
  3/18/2025 3:13:21 PM Middleware::Communication ERROR: Could not download file
  3/18/2025 3:13:21 PM Middleware::Communication ERROR: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.
  3/18/2025 3:13:21 PM Installer Could not download server CA cert from FOG server

  I have configured Apache as well.
  I can download this certificate manually to test 403 issue and it downloads the file in the system using this link http://<FOG_SERVER_IP>/fog/management/other/ca.cert.der

  But, it fails while mono installation throwing 403 error.

  I’m hoping for a solution here.
  Looking forward…
  Thanks.

• Mac Problems

  Technical help related to a Mac Problem.

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  @george1421 Hi,

  Thanks for your reply. Its strange. I am working with (almost exclusively) early 2012 hardware. My older Imacs 2009-2011 afaict pxe boot fine image with FOG w/o issue. The problem comes along when, I try to image our macbooks. They display different levels of progress before they flat out hang. I had one mbpx,y I’m almost sure it was a 3rd gen intel just can’t find it right now. I may be being processed to go out the door to our clients.

  Yes the 2019 verison of ipxe was executed from a boot of clonezill 3.1.x the version I would attempt to boot from ventory stick or from an imaged usb stick would display an error regarding not having efi capability and/or hang or return to the ventoy menu. If I just let them be long enough the MBP would just restart.

  So I did attempted to roll my own and ran into the same problem with the oobox downloadable iso/zip file. Hang… I am researching w/o much success with how clonezilla compiled their ipxe menu entry or how to just plain add efi capability to ipxe.iso/zip and burn it to a usb stick. I just am not knowledable enough to formulate a good question or find what I am looking for (cause I don’t know:))

  So thanks again for your reply. I have a large donations of older MBP’s coming just before the holidays and I would lik to be able to make it rain.

  Regards,

• General Problems

  General Developer questions relating to FOG.
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  If we have network boot enabled but no FOG task to complete. We get the following error when the PC exits out of Refind.
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  When we “Hit any key” we then get:
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  If we disable network boot the PC boots fine. I’m thinking the Refind can’t find the efi boot files on Lubuntu but not sure.

  Windows works fine as well. Can anyone help as we would like to have network boot enabled so we could remote image a PC if needed.