@george1421: I cannot launch the FOS Linux engine.

I was using the Factory image that came on the device from Lenovo. It was Win 10 and I updated it to Win 11 and we were getting the issues.

I wiped it clean, and loaded a new instance of Win 11, and everything worked fine afterwards. Looks like after disabling Secure Boot, all other issue were with the device. We now have a working images. Thank you for all the help.

@george1421 I updated the FOG Linux Kernel to the newest one and tried using an unmanaged switch but the problem still remains.

@luisgmarinr What you are telling me and what I see on the screen is not the same. Some of my confusion is that I don’t use virtual box so it may be something unique to VB.

You tell me the FOG server is at 10.0.2.15, but from your initial screen shot that is the IP address being given to the pxe booting computer.

The firmware is being told the next server (pxe boot server) is at 10.0.2.4. The next server field should point to the fog server IP address. Its also being told to boot win.pxe and that is not a FOG boot loader.

So lets start to debug this by identifying what device is 10.0.2.4.

Also what device is the dhcp server for your network? That device appears to be giving out bad information.

Awesome. Thanks for the help!

@Tauric said in TFTP Timeout:

(and took less than 10 minutes lol)

Well I was taking into account for slow speeds between keyboard and chair…
Glad you have it worked out. DNSMASQ should work flawlessly in your environment.

@ludlud Do all the machines come back on or just some of them?

Check the log in /var/log/fog/fogscheduler.log to see if jobs are somehow scheduled - like a plain WOL type job.

@george1421 Just thinking outside the box as it makes 0 sense for it to be “just these network cards”

I suppose the “real” test would be seeing if outside of this room if the same problem happens?

I know not simple, but if you can move the whole room to an area where we know this issue doesn’t currently exist, and it shows, then it’s likely specific to this equipment. If it doesnt’ show up, it’s likely something specific to that particular room.

@Tom-Elliott
Habit, simply habit. I looked back at the wiki documentation and it definitely does not say to use sh. I do apologize for the confusion and hopefully this helps someone in the future.

@boros

I want to transfer the “Gold” Images from the server in the other site. Can I just copy and paste the Images Folder from from the other Linux Machine?

The short answer is yes, but there is something you need to know.

FOG Images are made up of two components. The first is the raw data files that are kept in /images directory on your fog server. The second part is the metadata kept in the database. You need both to make the image functional. You can copy the files over by hand, but you will need to either recreate the metadata on the target system by hand (not a difficult task) or export the the image definitions from the source computer and import them on the destination computer

Now one other tidbit that is not supported by the developers, but it works. If on your master server you add the remote fog server as a storage node. The main fog server will be a master node and the remote server is a storage node (just in the context of this configuration), the master node will copy any image marked as exportable all storage nodes in its storage group. This will get the raw images over to the target system using the standard fog image replication. But the thing it doesn’t do is copy over the image definitions. You will need to do this using the export and import method, or by manually creating the image definitions by hand. Using this method you can have golden images pushed out by HQ and each site will still be able to create their own golden images too.

@skyborne98 Thanks for testing and sharing you insights here!

I just added this info to the wiki: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOG_Client#Installing_-_Linux

@george1421 That was it. Thanks

details:
I had named the menu item HD Wipe
The config file said HD_Wipe
I used the GUI to rename HD Wipe to HD_Wipe and all worked well.

@Enigma I asked a few questions in chat, but I’ll reask them here.

Is this your fog server’s IP address? 192.168.107.200 Your dhcp server isn’t sending dhcp option values, what device is your dhcp server? Your dhcp server needs to be configured to support both bootp (values in the ethernet header that are present in the pcal) and dhcp (missing dhcp options 66 and 67).

@ArtemZ I would check to make sure your dhcp server has the fog server’s IP address in dhcp option 66. The error message is kind of telling me that.

@ryanlewis2010 Do I get this right? You say the printer assignment done in the FOG web UI magically vanishes after a random time (1-30 minutes)?? Sounds really strange. I don’t think I have ever seen this happen.

The assignments are simple database entries and there is no specific FOG log you can look at I think. But you can enable MySQL/MariaDB logging and try to figure out why this is happening. Will still be hard to find out what is causing this even if you see it in the logs.

Do you use the FOG API by any chance? Some kind of scripting to automate FOG stuff?

If not it’s probably best to manually check the database tables on your FOG server:

shell> mysql -u root mysql> use fog; mysql> SELECT * FROM printerAssoc WHERE paPrinterID NOT IN (SELECT pID FROM printers); mysql> SELECT * FROM printerAssoc WHERE paHostID NOT IN (SELECT hostID FROM hosts);

The later two (select) queries should return an empty result set. If you get results it means that there are assignments still in the database for hosts or printers that do not exist anymore. While this is not a problem in general it would still be wise to clean that up.

Now you can start looking a a certain host having printers assigned by: SELECT * FROM printerAssoc WHERE paHostID=123456 (put in the host ID you see in the FOG web UI (parameter in the URL when editing this host)

See if the assignment is in the database compared to what you see in the web UI.

@Alan-Lim @jfernandz The message Starting sshd: touch: cannot touch '/var/lock/sshd' : No such file or directory is normal with the buildroot version currently used for the FOS inits. While it’s not nice it’s not causing any kind of issue and can be ignored.

The mount error seen after that is probably caused due to a router or firewall now allowing all the traffic needed to mount an NFS share.

@professorb24 said in Can't get pxe boot on my VM (FOG):

me to give out “fake” IP addresses

I think we have a language conflict here.

To use fog, the target computers (the devices where you will deploy your image), must use dhcp to get the pxe boot information. If you don’t have dhcp available for the client computers you will have a difficult time booting over the network. With that said, we do have a method to boot the computes into FOG via a usb boot stick. In this case you will need to take the usb boot drive around to the computers to start the imaging process.

The second issue you have is WDS. Right now FOG and WDS can not both occupy the same IP subnet since they will fight each other for network booting.