• UEFI ipxe host registration issue

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  • Unable to locate image store during image deployment

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    Hey @Tom-Elliott I was able to get our FOG instance working by following the upgrade path to upgrade fully to 1.5.10.1673. I guess I should have tried that first :-/.

    Thanks for your help.

  • Image Deployment Issues

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    @AngryITGuy The iPXE file likely needs the boot shim or whatever to allow things to work correctly and with upgrades this isnt’ really feasible as every newly built ipxe file (snp.efi, snponly.efi, etc…) would need that shim configured and installed in place.

    It’s possible there was a step in the original installer from your collegue that may have moved the ipxe files from a backup where these were shimmed appropriately?

    I don’t know exactly just spitballing.

    Ultimately, yes, I’m glad you got this working by disabling secure boot.

    Technically, it’s possible to do this with secure boot, but not in an easily scalable way that we can include as part of the install script. Nor, in reality, do I think we want to do such a thing. While it’d be nice to do it as an installer, I am hoping we can get a document that more clearly details what steps to do. This is mainly due to the constantly changing nature of fog, so if we have an easily repeatable knowledgebase on what steps to do in a well documented sort of way, it’d be a lot better than trying to have us maintain some installer that could easily have some issue on a new iteration and continually have to maintain yet more blocks of potentially os dependent code.

  • New Dell Laptop - LINUX-EFI-INITRD-MEDIA-GUID

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    I didn’t try updating the kernel (as when @Tom-Elliott replied I had already started the linux upgrade) however updating the linux to Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, and downloading and installing latest FOG built (as after the upgrade it wasn’t working anymore) fixed the issue.

    Thanks @Tom-Elliott

    This is the kernel version with the updated linux

    Linux version 6.8.0-79-generic (buildd@lcy02-amd64-049) (x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-13 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) 13.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.42) #79-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Aug 12 14:42:46 UTC 2025

  • Windows 11 failing to join domain

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    @chunter2 Ah, yes that would do it.
    That just becomes the default value when creating new hosts.
    If you set it via a group, it will update those values on all hosts in a given group, but it doesn’t do that dynamically/perpetually.

  • Image Deployment Freezes at Partclone

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    @shieldsj

    By “10.149.50.21:/images” I was referring to the “images” directory in the filesystem on the storage node at the IP address 10.148.50.21

    So to check the actual contents of the “/images” directory, you’ll need to either:

    1 - have a display and keyboard directly connected to that storage node (PC) to log into it and view the filesystem with whatever File Explorer type app its GUI desktop supplies OR

    2 - open a terminal / command line on that storage node PC, either at a display/keyboard connected to the storage PC or across the network with SSH.

    In any case, the contents of the storage node’s /images directory should be (mostly) subdirectories that are named exactly the same as your saved/captured images.

    Example:

    If you intended to capture an image called “Teacher_Pc”, the storage node’s /images directory should contain a subdirectory named “Teacher_Pc”

    In my case, I have captured an image I named “20250319-7010-adult-builder”. Here is a truncated directory listing on one of my storage nodes:

    root@node25-0:/images# ll total 140 drwxrwxr-x 32 fogproject fogproject 4096 Aug 12 11:19 ./ drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Aug 12 09:33 ../ drwxrwxr-x 2 fogproject fogproject 4096 Jul 31 10:05 20250319-7010-adult-builder/ drwxrwxr-x 2 fogproject fogproject 4096 Jul 31 10:06 20250327-7010-deploy-test/

    If somehow you have managed to get the image name (directory name) to be “, Image name Teacher_Pc” then I’ll not be surprised if parsing (text handling) errors happen within FOG when you try to use that image name. In that case, the directory can be renamed to “Teacher_Pc”, BUT that directory name must match in one field recorded in the fog database on the FOG server.

    Let’s see what you’ve got in the “/images” directory first.

  • Unable to check in

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    @Tom-Elliott Hi Tom, Thanks… I updated to 1.5.10.1692 and was able to deploy a 2 day old image to the PC. I updated some things on the PC, mostly with Steam and display settings then went to capture an image from it again and ran into the same problem mention in the OP. Only this time, I was able to take a pic.

    I ran chkdsk prior to capturing and it came up clean

    alt text

    UPDATE: So I tried everything for the ntfsresize error … turns out, I had to shrink the partition in windows a bit then expand it. After that, I could capture.

  • Windows 10 failing to join domain

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    @Sebastian-Roth Sorry for missing your reply. Just shows that fog has been running great for a while.

    I like the thought of adding better debugging log messages so I think this would be helpful.

  • Fog iPXE Menu no input

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    @janez3k said in Fog iPXE Menu no input:

    https://pastebin.com/xWhJkDX1

    Thank you for this, I have copied and pasted what you have. The only part i noticed (though I left it for now) is the missing building of ncm--ecm-axge

    I don’t know that this file is particularly in use so I think it’s safe to keep out but If I’m wrong I’m sure we’ll learn about it quickly enough.

    I have pushed this version of the IPXE building script to both working-1.6 and dev-branch.

    This won’t become part of the release until the 15th of September (at this point), but is available for testing on the bleeding-edge/beta channels.

  • Slow Image Deployment

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    @ProfessorFow There is the ability to replicate images across groups. You can set which “groups” images need to replate to by associating images to multiple storage groups. You can even define which storage group is the primary.

  • Dnsmasq on your FOG server

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    @diogo-seabra As for the picture, I think we need to clearly define your network.

    dnsmasq works by using broadcast messages. So that means dnsmasq will only work on the local subnet. If your pxe booting computers are on a different subnet then you will need to add the fog server’s IP address to the list in the dhcp relay service on your router.

    Also if you have dhcp snooping enabled on your network switches, that may also cause dnsmasq to not respond properly.

  • iPXE exit issue with Ubuntu/Lubuntu on Proxmox 8.4.11 VM

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  • Need advice – FOG server HTTPS causing no keyboard input during iPXE boot

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    Hi, just wondering if you were able to find a fix for this. Right now I’m experiencing a similiar issue when in the ipxe menu for Fog. No keyboard input works.

  • System crash during image deployment

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    @rodluz
    Thanks for the feedback. I swapped the RAM module and NUC was able to re-image. Case closed.

  • UEFI is not booting with Windows DHCP

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    @george1421 No luck, could you please have a remote session at your convenient time?

  • FOG not saving images in the directory

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    @BrightPipe said in FOG not saving images in the directory:

    EDIT---- Running the installer again seems to have fixed the issue. Thanks.

    Good deal because that was going to me my next request. I’m glad you have it sorted out.

  • Clients (randomly?) boot to Debug Mode on regular deploy or capture

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    @RAThomas If the value is empty it shoudl think it’s false, and since it seemed to be random that’s where I got confused. But I’m glad this is working for you.

    Thank you!

  • Another Multicast problem.

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    @Selanty
    I have the same problem, fresh installed Fog on Debain 12, PHP 8.2.29, Fog 1.5.10.1667.
    Fog-Server is running on the same switch as the 2 Clients in one VLAN 2765. For that VLAN ip igmp is enabled.
    “sh ip igmp” on that aruba switch shows:
    -IGMP version : 2
    -Querier Address : 10.73.65.21 (vlan-address of a second switch witch plays as querier)
    -the querier ist running igmp v2

    “service FOGMulticastManager status” result is:
    PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Non-static method FOGService::outall() cannot be called statically in /opt/fog/service/FOGMulticastManager/FOG>

    unicast to that 2 clients is running.

  • WOL for different VLANs

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    I have done this before on a Cisco switch but it’s been a while. Thought I share my notes on what commands are needed

    # Vlan131 (fog server vlan) ip helper-address 192.168.158.255 # Vlan158 (fog client on a different vlan) ip directed-broadcast 101 # ip access-list extended 101 access-list 101 permit udp host 192.168.131.149 any eq 9 * NOTE in the ACL above 192.168.131.149 is the fog server ip address # forward udp ip forward protocol udp 9 (it might say discard) # On the switch the two vlans look something like this interface Vlan131 description fog server vlan ip address 192.168.131.1 255.255.255.0 ip helper-address 192.168.131.3 (my dhcp & dns server) ip helper-address 192.168.158.255 (fog client subnet broadcast address) end interface Vlan158 description fog client vlan ip address 192.168.158.1 255.255.255.0 ip directed-broadcast 101 (extended ACL) end

    Hope it helps

  • Set storage location (/images) during install

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    @vincent33 Hello, thanks for the response! I was able to change my HW so this was no longer an issue.

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