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  TFTP Error - File Not Found
  • FuriousGamer065  

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  @george1421 Thank you so much! It works now!
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  refind not working properly
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  @george1421 I can almost guarantee that the problem would not move with the hardware. I have moved rigs from the secondary location to the primary before, as we are slowly downsizing this secondary site and moving stuff to the primary as we sell off video cards. I’ve used motherboard from here to replace boards at the primary location without any problems. I do have an empty rack at the primary location where I can move a couple of the rigs from secondary though and make sure it will work. I will have to do that at some point next week. I can’t have a rig dismantled over the weekend.
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  Pxe-Boot gets hung up on TFTP
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  @zaccx32 said in Pxe-Boot gets hung up on TFTP: We do have two DHCP servers within the same scope that are for load balancing Make sure that both are setup to support pxe booting. We’ve see situations where one is configured and the other is not and the clients will get random pxe boots depending on which dhcp server responds first.
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  All new Dell laptops stuck on Bios Splash screen
  • Alk  

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  These laptops are coming with M2 Nvme disks, i used diskpart in windows 10 with “clean all” option to fix the problem. Yes all laptops are UEFI only I am building fresh windows 10 using one of the new Microsoft ISO files. I will try to capture an image from one of the laptops and try to deploy it to other. If this will not work we will raise a ticket with dell
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  Cannot exit IPXE menu and boot from hard drive?
  fog linux ipxe fog 1.5.9 • • wmw509  

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  @wmw509 Disabling CSM makes sense. I’ve seen a lot of bioses that if CSM is enabled it only lets you use the legacy/bios pxe boot. I’ve had that disabled on all my hardware for so long I forgot it was a thing.
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  DHCP option 67
  • FOG38640  

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  @FOG38640 said in DHCP option 67: Is there an option for FOG to automatically choose between BIOS and UEFI? For what? For the network boot file? If so that is done by your dhcp server. What is your dhcp server? (its been a few days so I don’t remember, a quick scan of the thread didn’t answer that question either) Edit: found it way at the bottom Windows 2019 server. So there is instructions for windows 2012 and later. Hopefully it translates to 2019 dhcp servers. https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/BIOS_and_UEFI_Co-Existence#Using_Windows_Server_2012_.28R1_and_later.29_DHCP_Policy
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  Deployed imaged failed with blue screen (error 0xc0000225 or "NTFS file system")
  • Matthieu Jacquart  

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  @Matthieu-Jacquart Well that’s really interesting. It is known that Windows 2004 adds another revovery partition to the end of the disk. I have this on my list of things to work on for the next weeks. Though I cannot imagine how removing this partition can cause such issues you described here. It’s really over the top for a Windows installation to boot fine for a couple of times and then fail with such errors if it is for the missing recovery partition I would think. But well, I am a Linux guy and only scratch my head unable to understand the way MS is making up its world.
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  FOG Automation
  • eseelke  

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  @eseelke While I do understand all of those topics are kind of related in your point of view they are actually not and I think it’s way better to open a new topic for each of them. Easier to follow and answer if things aren’t mixed up. I’ll quickly answer the questions for now but wait with the details until you opened those different topics. Give them names according to what each of them is really about! I have Quick Registration set to apply hostname, image, and group. It does all of this, but it will start pulling the image from the master host and not the local storage. Is there a way to force this? How did you make quick registration to apply the group setting to a host? Maybe this customization is preventing the location plugin to work properly. There is no other way to force this other than setting the correct location in the host’s settings. I have a small 1GB ISO for diagnostics in the menu. It works, but it always pulls it from the master host. I have it stored in each replicated storage. Is there a way to tell it to use local storage instead of master? This has been discussed recently. The FOG menu is mostly pulled from the master node. You need to tell it to load the ISO from storage nodes explicitly. For above ISO, is there a way to script it, so it pushes to each replication share at creation, rather than manually having to push it? Possibly, have it check the master and if file newer, push out to each? George answered this already. I have the FOG client installed on each system, but it doesn’t seem to check-in. I am only needing this in order to remotely shutdown or reboot systems. The log file on the client is blank. How can I troubleshoot this? If the fog.log file is empty the fog-client has never ever started on this machine. Windows XP is pretty old. Does it even have .NET Framework 4.5.2 (fog-client used 4.0 up until version 0.11.19 but we switched to 4.5.2 with release 0.12.0). Did the installation succeed? Is the service installed and enabled? As mentioned above I ask you to open different topics so we can discuss things in depth separately.
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  FOG not updating Active Directory Users and Computers
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  @Sebastian-Roth Hello, Sebastian, I believe the reason for why hostnames were not updating was due to the client not being up to date, however, after a name change, AD is still not updating, causing a trust relationship error when logging in and the domain does not change. Also, we a running 0.12.0 client version. Any other ideas on why AD is not communicating correctly? Thanks!
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  Multicasting
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  @george1421 said in Multicasting: @Goll420 bitlocker ref: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10824/image-upload-deploy-taking-a-long-time/15 Very interesting, thank you. I imagine this was the problem for these machines.
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  SOLVED Adding Hiren’s BootCD PE to Advanced Menu
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  The only way I was able to make it work was by loading the whole ISO file. :hbcd initrd http://${fog-ip}/images/tools/hbcd/HBCD_PE_x64.iso chain memdisk iso raw || boot || goto start by using the WinPE method I was able to boot but it couldnt find bootmgr in the wim file. I then tried to define the bootmgr and I was then getting errors regarding not being able to patch the wim file. in the end I just tried loading the whole Iso like with dban and lo and behold it worked, though it then limits you to a 2gb ram minimum setup.
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  New to this
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  @Tacolover99 said in New to this: Which I wanted but I notice that the internet was limited connected. So CMD, and found out the Thin Clint also inherited the IP Address from the other thin client. Check the original one and now that thin client is doing the same thing. Not to sure if it is DHCP problem when I cloned it. I think you need to explain this part in more depth. Probably best if you can post some pictures so we know what you mean by “limited connected”, “inherited the IP Address”, “doing the same thing”.
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  FOGImageReplicator runs in a loop
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  @Sebastian-Roth Thank you very much for your help! After you pointed me to the right file, i found a very easy and good working solution. /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/fogbase.class.php: Changed line 2305 from: $size = filesize($file); to: $size = exec("stat -c %s ".$file); I found this nice solution over here: stackoverflow Reverted my changes that i showed in the last post, restarted FOGImageReplicator service, and it works perfect! We know that this can’t work for forever, and Updates are also nice and good, so we need to change a few internal things, and also reinstall this Server with x64 Debian. Thanks for your great support. Keep up this very very nice project!
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  FOG clients not PXE booting
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  @george1421 Thank you lol, yeah the ips are still the same, we are working through it and will post the resolution.
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  FOG update broke rEFInd exit
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  @rodluz Sorry, somehow I lost track of this topic! Here you go… @jtappen The picture you posted, is this in Hosts -> edit one host’s settings -> Active Directory or in Groups -> edit group settings -> Active Directory? If it’s the host’s settings then we can start digging deeper by looking into the database: shell> mysql -u fogmaster -p Password: ... mysql> use fog; ... mysql> UPDATE hosts SET hostPubKey='', hostSecToken='', hostSecTime='0000-00-00 00:00:00'; ... mysql> quit The password for the fogmaster database user is found in /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/config.class.php.
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  Stuck on : "Ensuring node username and passwords match...."
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  @plegrand Testing internet connection is now done mainly with curl.
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  SOLVED Problem with the resize (expanding) on a hard drive
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  Hi, i am not sure if it can simply deleted, It’s used in recovery cases and there are 12,5MB of data in it. I need to find out if Windows 10 is using it for what ever case. Best Regards X23
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  Storage Node
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  @Sebastian-Roth Thank you, I did forget about using Multicast. I’m running a job now using it and it’s immensely improved bandwidth utilisation!
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  HostnameChanger Issue
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  @jtappen The picture you posted, is this in Hosts -> edit one host’s settings -> Active Directory or in Groups -> edit group settings -> Active Directory? If it’s the host’s settings then we can start digging deeper by looking into the database: shell> mysql -u fogmaster -p Password: ... mysql> use fog; ... mysql> SELECT hostName,hostEnforce FROM hosts WHERE hostName LIKE '%newhostname%'; ... mysql> SELECT settingValue FROM globalSettings WHERE settingKey LIKE '%FOG_ENFORCE_HOST_CHANGES%'; ... mysql> quit The password for the fogmaster database user is found in /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/config.class.php. Instead of newhostname in the SQL query put in the name of the host you just registered - make sure the case is correct! Post output of the commands here in the forum if you need further help.
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  UNSOLVED Upgrade from 1.5.7 to 1.5.8 issues
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  @Quazz said in Upgrade from 1.5.7 to 1.5.8 issues: Is it possible to detect if an image is made with partclone 2.89? I have thought about this as well but I don’t see an easy way. The image file is usually compressed (gzip or zstd) and we need to unpack or pipe it through an “uncompress fifo” for any tool to read the header. Reading the header for distinction between different versions means that we cannot pipe that into partclone directly anymore I suppose. So we’d have to tear down the “uncompress fifo” and re-create it again. I may ask why would we need to do this on the other hand? So far it looks like fixing partlcone properly would mean that we can deploy old and new images using partlone 0.3.12 I think. Though I am still waiting for more people to test this! I know @Chris-Whiteley is very busy at the moment, but I’d really hope he and some other people get around to test the fixed init so we know how well it works.