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• FOG Problems

  Technical help directly related to FOG.
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  @Tom-Elliott

  So f144ad5 is the last working commit. In case anyone else have the same problem, this is my script to grab it and modify so it works fine with EFI keyboard in some PCs as discussed here: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/17870/fog-ipxe-menu-no-input. It also removes neverssl.com site because it’s down now so script hangs on checking internet connection. Don’t mind main sed part, it’s probably overcomplicated since I used ChatGPT for it, but it works fine so who cares 😉

  #!/bin/bash # Checkout last working FOG project commit cd git git clone https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject.git cd fogproject git checkout f144ad5a30bdab23be4d207b471ca80057e367fd # Modify functions.sh to remove non working neverssl.com site cd ~/git/fogproject/lib/common sed -i 's+http_sites=("neverssl.com" "httpbin.org")+http_sites=("httpbin.org")+g' functions.sh # Modify buildipxe.sh to grab last working ipxe commit and fix EFI USB drivers cd ~/git/fogproject/utils/FOGiPXE cat > transform_buildipxe.sed <<'SED' /^[[:space:]]*git pull$/a\ git checkout 6cccb3bdc00359068c07125258d71ce24db5118a /^ cd \${BASE}\/ipxe\/src\/$/c\ cd \${BASE}/ipxe/\ git checkout 6cccb3bdc00359068c07125258d71ce24db5118a\ cd \${BASE}/ipxe/src/ /^ cd \${BASE}\/ipxe-efi\/src\/$/c\ cd \${BASE}/ipxe-efi/\ git checkout 6cccb3bdc00359068c07125258d71ce24db5118a\ cd \${BASE}/ipxe-efi/src/ /^sed -i 's+#define[[:space:]]*USB_HCD_USBIO+\/\/\#define[[:space:]]*USB_HCD_USBIO+g' config\/usb\.h$/c\ sed -i 's+#define<----->USB_HCD_USBIO+//#define>USB_HCD_USBIO+g' config/usb.h /^sed -i 's+\/\/\#define[[:space:]]*USB_HCD_USBIO+\#define[[:space:]]*USB_HCD_USBIO+g' config\/usb\.h$/, /^sed -i 's+\/\/\#undef[[:space:]]*USB_EFI+\#undef[[:space:]]*USB_EFI+g' config\/usb\.h$ #sed -i 's+//#define\tUSB_HCD_USBIO+#define\tUSB_HCD_USBIO+g' config/usb.h\ #sed -i 's+//#undef\tUSB_KEYBOARD+#define\tUSB_KEYBOARD+g' config/usb.h\ #sed -i 's+//#undef\tUSB_EFI+#undef\tUSB_EFI+g' config/usb.h\ sed -i 's+//#define+#define+g' config/usb.h\ sed -i 's+#define USB_CMD+//#define USB_CMD+g' config/general.h SED sed -i -f transform_buildipxe.sed buildipxe.sh rm -f transform_buildipxe.sed # Start FOG install/update cd ~/git/fogproject/bin ./installfog.sh
• Hardware Compatibility

  Problems with specific computer models.
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  @mrowand How did you manage to boot from the network with this computer? I’ve already made several changes in the BIOS, but it doesn’t recognize Fog. I have other old computers that clone normally, but I can’t get this one to work. I’m on version 1.5.10.1733. What did you change in the BIOS to make the boot work?

• Windows Problems

  Technical help related to a Windows Problem.
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  Hi Again guys

  I have some news about this problem.
  I found a work around.

  I change the file d1.fixed_size_partitions deleting the recovery Windows partition. This change generated and error when I made the deploy image in Client PC.
  But if I cancel the job in the CLI fog server and reset the client machine after fog show the error
  It boot ok.

  I’ll continue reading …
  Thanks

• Linux Problems

  Technical help related to a Linux Problem.
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  Ok so I now have a second system with the EXACT same issue. I purchased a Dell Precision 7875 which has 2 on-board nics. I updated our dhcp server to issue an IP address for one of the two NICs. With the system connected to that interface I PXE booted the system. The first stage of the fog shows as it notices the system is not registered and asking whether I would like to register the system. Yet once I say do full registration that’s it it will not proceed further.

  So similar to the issue that I’ve raised prior with multiple NICs and @george1421 suggested I PXE booted the system again but went into DEBUG mode. Well as it appears the unused MAC address is now showing up on the interface that I had configured to connect to the network. Seeing that I did not assign an IP address to the second mac address the system would not proceed any further. The odd thing is that BOTH interfaces show up having the same mac address. It seems that there’s an issue with the FOS with newer Dell systems with multiple NICs.

  If I disable one of the two NICs in the BIOS, and do the re-imaging process everything works fine…

  Really looking for a fix for this…

  Cheers

  Jason Naughton

• Mac Problems

  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 Problems

  General Developer questions relating to FOG.
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  @Tom-Elliott Do the values in .fogsettings get applied only the first time installfog.sh is executed, or are they supposed to be applied on every subsequent run as well?
  In my case, updating .fogsettings after the initial installation doesn’t seem to change anything, so I want to confirm whether this is expected behavior or if I’m missing something.