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  • Technical help directly related to FOG.
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    @romprager The simple answer is depends on the iso image and what OS will boot from the ISO image.

    I do have several how tos in the forum that shows how to net boot several different installers.

    https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10944/using-fog-to-pxe-boot-into-your-favorite-installer-images

  • Problems with specific computer models.
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    @rodluz I know you were talking to the other person, but if you like you can send me the kernels for testing.

  • Technical help related to a Windows Problem.
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    Hi everyone, and thanks for your answers.

    Good news! If FOG works for you, it’ll work for me too (comming soon).

    @mashina said in Issue when I tried to make Windows 11 gold image:

    I am not aware of any completion message on the server. As far as I know, once the progress bar in the Task tab reaches 100%, the image has been fully cloned to the computer. Can you confirm if that is what you are seeing?

    In the PC client, yes it’s exactly this message appears

    @mashina said in Issue when I tried to make Windows 11 gold image:

    Based on your description, it sounds like your configuration is not capturing the boot partition. As a result, when the image finishes deploying, the system cannot find a valid boot mechanism and falls back to network boot.

    I’m looking at the clone I made on a test PC, and I can see using diskpart that the BCD was created correctly.

    The files are there.

    I tried rebuilding the BCD using the commands.

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    Hi everyone, and thanks for your replies.

    Good news! If FOG works for you, it’ll work for me too (eventually).

    I’m looking at the clone I made on a test PC, and I can see using diskpart that the BCD was created correctly.

    The files are there.

    I tried rebuilding the BCD using the commands. The output is correct, but Windows won’t boot.

    boot C:\Windows /l es-es /s X: /f UEFI

    @pilipp_edv said in Issue when I tried to make Windows 11 gold image:

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    I have the same configuration in my server.
    But i tested the others options (im not used DD)

    I don’t know what other options I have to check.
    Do you know of any logs where I can find more information?

    Regards

  • Technical help related to a Linux Problem.

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    @george1421

    Ok so the system in question has an on board nic (enp128s31f6), 1 single port Intel PCI-E Gigabit NIC (enp5s0), and 1 dual port Intel PCI-E Gigabit NIC (enp3s0 and enp4s0).

    So I booted the system with a Linux system rescue USB key. The network cable is plugged into the single port nic. You can see that it has the IP address 172.16.57.22 was fetched. Without any issues. The mac addresses on the identified nics are:

    enp128s31f6 - d4:a2:cd:b7:17:f2 enp3s0 - 00:13:3b:50:b2:b0 enp4s0 - 00:13:3b:50:b2:b1 enp5s0 - ec:08:6b:04:f9:d9 (the one that is attached to the network cable)

    SysResecue-Image.jpg

    Now when I boot the system up into debug mode with FOG into the FOS environment it seems whatever port is pluged into the lan it adopts another NIC’s mac address as shown below:

    FogClient-Image.jpg

    Now you can see when the fog client boots the mac address changes on the port that is connected to the LAN as:

    enp128s31f6 - d4:a2:cd:b7:17:f2 enp3s0 - 00:13:3b:50:b2:b0 enp4s0 - 00:13:3b:50:b2:b1 enp5s0 - ec:08:6b:04:f9:d9 --> Changed to 00:13:3b:50:b2:b0 (the one that is attached to the network cable)

    Now I’ve plugged the cable into enp128s31f6 and setup dhcp on that port as well and tested it. When the fog client starts all of sudden the enp128s31f6 has another NIC’s mac address…

    Just a re-cap if I pull the two network cards, and do the re-image on the system I have no issues. It only occurs when I put an additional nic into the system… Any suggestions?

  • Technical help related to a Mac Problem.

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    Hello everyone,

    As I work at a secondary school, I was able to get hold of some Catalina iMacs (iMac 14.3).
    I already use FOG to deploy Windows and Linux images on PCs.

    I would like to deploy a LinuxMint image on these iMacs.

    However, I am unable to boot into PXE on them with FOG, and I do not know what is wrong.

    I modified my DHCP server as follows:

    ## FOG class "UEFI-32-1" { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00006"; filename "i386-efi/ipxe.efi"; } class "UEFI-32-2" { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00002"; filename "i386-efi/ipxe.efi"; } class "UEFI-64-1" { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00007"; filename "ipxe.efi"; } class "UEFI-64-2" { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00008"; filename "ipxe.efi"; } class "UEFI-64-3" { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00009"; filename "ipxe.efi"; } class "Apple-Intel-Netboot" { match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 14) = "AAPLBSDPC/i386"; option dhcp-parameter-request-list 1,3,17,43,60; if (option dhcp-message-type = 8) { option vendor-class-identifier "AAPLBSDPC"; if (substring(option vendor-encapsulated-options, 0, 3) = 01:01:01) { # BSDP List option vendor-encapsulated-options 01:01:01:04:02:80:00:07:04:81:00:05:2a:09:0D:81:00:05:2a:08:69:50:58:45:2d:46:4f:47; } elsif (substring(option vendor-encapsulated-options, 0, 3) = 01:01:02) { #BSDP Select option vendor-encapsulated-options 01:01:02:08:04:81:00:05:2a:82:0a:4e:65:74:42:6f:6f:74:30:30:31; # filename "i386-efi/ipxe.efi"; filename "snp.efi"; } } } class "Legacy" { match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00000"; filename "undionly.kkpxe"; } ### END FOG

    I tested ipxe.efi in 64-bit and 32-bit, as well as snp.efi, but it still doesn’t work. I get some kind of spinning planet when I try to boot.

    I admit I don’t fully understand the documentation page: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOG_on_a_MAC

    Thanks in advance!

  • General Developer questions relating to FOG.
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    @Tom-Elliott Hi Tom,

    Thank you, that clarifies a lot. I now understand that hostSecTime represents the expiration time, not the creation time, which fully explains the consistent +30 minute offset I was seeing. That part now makes sense and resolves my question.

    The only remaining actual issue I’m trying to understand is the snapin behavior: in several cases, snapins did not execute on some hosts. I don’t see any errors in the logs. Only that the snap-in task doesn’t start, but I will work on this and gather some more data. Thank you!

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