Just a heads up, I am pretty new to ubuntu and any extra info you could give me would be HUGE in my learning process. I checked the folders, made the changes but for the life of me cannot find this mac address file. I think I am just lost in my newby-ways. Please give more insight 🙂

If your using windows DHCP, check the details that has been entered for option 67 for that DHCP scope.

From what I can see in the log, the FOG service is duplicating the MAC address and appending it to the MAC string. The devices only have one NIC, so I’m not sure why it’s doing this. Instead of 00:11:22:33:44:55 for a MAC string, you get 00:11:22:33:44:55|00:11:22:33:44:55, which doesn’t have any jobs associated with it. Anyone else seen this/have a workaround? I don’t want to have to recompile the service again.

Really old thread here but I’ve run into this issue. New FOG user and have successfully inventoried and imaged PCs but I’m unable to do either full or quick inventory on an HP 550 laptop. PXE boot and then select the option… blank screen after that. I checked the Working Hardware list and saw nothing that indicated I would need to do anything special.

I’m running stock 0.32 so swapping kernels is something I have no experience with as of yet. Is there a better kernel to use that is more compatible than the stock kernel?

Did that second recommendation ever work?
[FONT=Consolas]I am experiencing this problem in Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop (package: tftpd-5.2-1ubuntu1). The tftpd daemon does not start when the computer starts up, even though the tftpd-hpa job starts. As far as I can tell, the problem is that the tftpd service is starting before the network is properly configured. The problem seemed to go away when I changed the line
start on runlevel [2345]
in /etc/init/tftpd-hpa.conf to
start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo)[/FONT]
[FONT=Consolas]?[/FONT]

I googled “dnsmasq junk command line” and found some interesting results. Have you had a look yet to see if anything applies to you?

Try leaving them connected to wired network until after the rename and domain join. The wireless adapter is not associated with the host record in FOG until after Windows and the FOG Client are loaded, the FOG client has told the database about the wireless mac, AND the FOG administrator has approved the pending mac record for the host.

I solve this by leaving them connected to wired network until domain joined, and then run a custom sql script to accept all pending macs for all hosts sometime down the road.

Hi,

WOL in combination with scheduled tasks or cron tasks don’t work!
This is a FOG Bug no general WOL Problem.

Greetz X23

Hi,

using etherwake like Daëavelwyn described will also not work with scheduled tasks or cron tasks.
It’s possible to just wake up a machine or to wake up it with an immediatelly followed image but
[B]NOT[/B] with scheduled tasks or cron tasks!

Please any of the developers please check that behavior!

This is not a generall WOL Problem it’s a FOG Problem!

Greetz X23

I have the same issue but no changes were ever made to the server. All settings are set to eth0, the way they should be. I get no graphical display.

I do have the /Images folder pointing to a SCSI drive which the system says it is eth1.

Sorry for the lack of detail. I had already set that up but it would just not see it. A co-worker set it up in Linux to point to the default ‘images’ folder. It now works.

Awesome glad you got it working! That was the next place to look, when computers want to image but you haven’t set any tasks for them, you can browse to the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/ and delete the mac address named files.

I will warn you, don’t delete the default file, you’ll anger the linux gods 🙂

It really helps to let us know what kind of troubleshooting steps you have taken up to this point so we don’t suggest something already attempted.

it seems you can disable that message, my concern is to why you are receiving this message.

Anyway I found some information here that may be of service

There is a way to turn off the message. it is basically a “quiet” command. I’m more interested in solving the issue, which appears to be a video card problem.

You can try creating a custom kernel and adding your drivers to the kernel so it can function properly, or you can disable the message.

Now being because you did not state what linux flavor you have chosen to work with FOG, I’m going to assume it is a debian revision.

add drm_kms_helper.poll=0 to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst.

If you are using a later revision of Ubuntu or anything with Grub2, you will not have a menu.lst, you need to create a config file “modprobe.conf” in directory /etc/modprobe.d/ and add the following line (note you need to start the line with the options command) and save

options drm_kms_helper poll=0

These bottom solutions are only a Band aid, to resolve the issue, build a custom kernel.

Hi All,

I ended up blowing away the VM that had FOG on it. I then installed a new VM and re-installed FOG Server. I haven’t done the imaging yet with FOG but I don’t expect to have this same problem as I specified the correct IP Address during the initial installation.

Yes all this is edited on the server itself, look on the main drive of the linux server, on the root directory you will see the tftpboot folder, if not, stop and re-install fog again because something wasn’t done correctly.

in linux the root of the drive is /, it doesn’t use “drive letters”, it uses absolute postion, sda0, sda1, etc.
so when something say /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg
/ is equivalent to “C:” on windows, so look on the root drive, /, and the tftpboot folder should be located here.

ALRIGHT I GOT IT!!!

I adjusted the MYSQL information in both of the Config files, and found the sucker that wasn’t reporting and rebooted it now I have transfer!!! thanks for letting me bounce ideas and keep track of my efforts 🙂

Hi,

a tutorial done under windows but similar to linux:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/how-to-setup-a-fog-storage-node-without-installing-fog.4294/[/url]

Greetz X23

[quote=“YuYo, post: 12476, member: 3300”]
I have a couple questions about the process. Let’s say that I want to deploy 19 PCs and set the min-receivers parameter to 15. Supposedly it will start once it reaches 15 PCs, but what about the remaining 4 PCs?

Will they join the same multicast session?
Will the stay out?
Will they wait until the first 15 PCs finish?[/quote]

[B]*Will they join the same multicast session?[/B]
Generally no.
[B]*Will the stay out?[/B]
Probably, they will be stay out of the multicast session.
[B]Will they wait until the first 15 PCs finish?[/B]
No. Generally, they will be stay in the blue screen “Please Wait” and finally, I think, appears a stdio error message.