OK, I’m an idiot, I’d somehow overwritten the ramdisk image with the kernel, turning off quiet produced an error that made that clear (unreadable ramdisk image, essentially).

Now I can load the kernel, but I eventually just end up at a command prompt. If I type “acronis” there, it does some stuff (something with network interfaces then enumerating my drives) but then just dumps me back to the prompt. Do I need to run it from a graphical environment? Is there any way to automate whatever the solution to getting it to run is?

[quote=“pjcard, post: 8665, member: 2528”]This discussion is about booting hirens over the network, russed, I think you’re talking about something else.[/quote]
Maybe you’re right, but as I stated at the start of my post, I had something to say about booting Hiren’s boot CD from it’s ISO image file and running its menus and programs.
I only had the hope that this can be useful for someone.

run chkdsk /f 😄
defrag
seatools for dos maybe?

Use proxyDHCP so you don’t have to worry about what the DHCP server config looks like.

Incase anyone else has this problem - It seems to have resolved it self.

The image I mention above was never sysprepped. I sysprepped it, uploaded it as multiple partition - single disk, and it worked fine multicast. After that I noticed the hidden partition shrunk from 500mb to 100mb. I figured I’d try uploading it as NTFS resizable - and go figure, it works fine multicast now.

Odd

hahaha thanks for the award. I checked the cabling and switching, things seem fine. I had to reboot the machine for some OS updates to take effect and that ended up fixing the issue for now. I’m still curious as to why it was happening. I will definitely poke around in syslog like you suggested next time.

Yeah, I could see 12.04 being the cause of our problems.

To be honest, if the virus messes up the computer badly enough to need a pxe boot scan to actually remove it, I’ve found it saves time to just reimage the machine (we make use of a lot of network storage, so losing files is almost never an issue).

I’m actually not sure about how well ClamAV works in regards to detecting and removing viruses, but maybe that’s for a different thread.

FOG doesn’t like to image most OEM recovery partitions. I used GParted to remove the Fujitsu recovery partitions and expand/rearrange the remaining partitions.

When you installed Ubuntu, did you make a “fog” user account? Did you set the IP address of the FOG server static before you installed FOG? Are you using FOG for your DHCP?

Is this a new problem? Has it worked in the past and just quit?

Ask your local computer resellers or support companies. One of them may be familiar with FOG.

For reference, the ONLY time you use FOGCrypt on a password is when setting the user credentials for joining computers to AD. All the other passwords in the FOG settings and config files are in plain text. I know some of them look encoded, but they are just random strings made complex enough so they are not easily guessed from 1 FOG install to the next.

All you really needed to do what reset the password for the “fog” user in the WEB ui, which you can do through mysql command line if you can login to the fog server.

You need to set the passwords in the /var/www/fog/commons/config.php and the web UI.
[LIST=1]
[]open /var/www/fog/commons/config.php
[]set the TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD, doesn’t have to be complex, but write it down.
[]set the STORAGE_FTP_PASSWORD to the same value as TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD.
[]save the file.
[]from the command line: sudo passwd fog
[]Enter the same value you used for TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD and STORAGE_FTP_PASSWORD
[]open the FOG web UI.
[]login as user: fog
[]go to other information, FOG Settings
[]Go down to the TFTP Server section, make sure the FOG_TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD value matches the TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD value from step 2
[]Save changes
[]Schedule a task and see if it works.
[/LIST]
In FOG 0.32, some settings are duplicated between the config files and the database. So you have to make sure both spots are updated or you have weird problems. It’s getting cleaned up for the next version I think, but for now, change the values in both the web UI and the config files.

After hours upon hours of trying to figure out a config file parameter I may be missing, that dummy file workaround is music to my ears. Thanks a lot!

You set it in the fog settings, pxe boot menu settings. You have to enter a master password before you can set any of the sub-passwords.

I had actually done all 3 of those things with no luck. I ended up getting the root MySQL account password removed and updated the files again to use root with no password and all of the sudden, everything worked.

Are your storage nodes accessible from the main fog server? Can you ping and FTP to them?

I blew the installation and set up Ubuntu 10.4 and it worked fine.

The only difference with the Debian is that I set up a password for the root user for MySQL on Debian (and created a user that was granted all rights to the whole DB; and provided that information in the fog config file as explained).

Thanks anyway 🙂

You’re going to run into index value overlaps or orphaned data in other tables. You’ll need to modify the data before you import it. Basically you’ll update the hostid in the hosts table and all tables that reference that value. Then you can import the data into all the existing database.

I’d be willing to work with you on this, but I don’t think it’s going to be quick and easy.

Okay, I think I might know where the problem lies. When I try to run cupsaddsmb to add the printer drivers to the Samba I get a “[I]NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL” [/I]error. I’m not sure where to go from here though. [I][/I]