• Windows 10 image upload lockup on FOG beta v1.3 - take 2

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    Wayne WorkmanW

    This typically happens when the computer previously had it’s HDD in GPT layout because the computer was previously in UEFI mode, and is changed to BIOS mode, and had Windows re-installed, thus changing the HDD layout to MBR.

    The Windows installer does a crappy job at setting up MBR, it leaves pieces of the old GPT layout behind. There is a utility to fix this, it’s called fixparts and it’s available to you already via a debug capture or debug deploy.

    In the web interface, choose to capture like you did before. On the confirmation page for capturing, check the box for “Debug”, then confirm this.

    When the computer network boots, it’ll go to a prompt. It’ll display two chunks of information, you have to press the ENTER key to pass through this information. Eventually you will find yourself at a shell (a shell prompt). This is a Linux environment, btw.

    Generally, the drive you need to work with is /dev/sda but this isn’t always the case. You can get a listing of the local drives by typing the lsblk command. Say for you the local hdd is named /dev/sda, the command to type to fix the disk layout would then be fixparts /dev/sda

    After getting this utility going, if it says the disk is dirty, follow onscreen instructions to fix it, and then to write changes to disk. When done, type the fog command to start the image capture process, because this is debug it’ll ask you to press ENTER at every step, it’s important to do this all the way to the end.

  • FOG 1.3RC13 TFTP error

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    @educapole said in FOG 1.3RC13 TFTP error:

    @Tom-Elliott Indeed, i’ve found a second DHCP server on my network. An user has plug a damn wifi acces point…

    Bingo!! and those dang wifi access points with built in dhcp will point to them selves as the next hop server so the clients will try to download the boot image from them.

    Good find.

  • Updated to Fog 7575 TFTP issue

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  • Deploying image to VM with smaller HDD

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    Tom ElliottT

    @jmer129 That’s exactly what this file is used for. It maintains which partitions should be “fixed” or set as it was when the image was originally captured.

  • 7156 Uefi pxe DHCP error

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    @dureal99d Your welcome. I’m glad in the end it was just a simple reboot that finally resolved the issue.

    We had a hour or so chat session to work through this issue pulling apart the dhcp/pxe booting process frame by frame.

  • Quick Registration gets stuck at 'Attempting to register host..'

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    @TomBagley Thanks for reporting back! Marking this solved then.

  • When restoring image - Disk not found

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    My initial reaction is that you don’t have the sata driver for the P 650 G1 in your reference image.

    Second reaction is what type of disk is in the 650 G1 (is it a NVMe type disk)? If so you will need to include the OS kbs that add support to NVMe disks. This is outside of what hardware drivers are needed for that model.

  • Fog Replication and best config setup for multisite masters

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    Wayne WorkmanW

    @Obsidian reported that replication worked fine after he setup his remote servers as Storage Nodes, as recommended.

    Also, this topic has gone off topic, and has been forked to here:
    https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/8747/when-restoring-image-disk-not-found

  • WOL

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    Tom ElliottT

    @Wayne-Workman He already did, it’s how I know it was already pushed and is working.

  • AHCI boot iso problems

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    @george1421 ,
    Hi,
    with Intel I5/I7 processor the system start correct,
    j1900 e3826 reboot (it’s not a fog problem but ACHI driver installed ).

  • iPXE Boot Menu Invalid Login

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    Hye,

    I 've update to rc14 and now it’s working.

    Thanks

  • Capturing images stuck on the client

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    george1421G

    In addition to below, on your FOG server please key in showmount -e 127.0.0.1 that will show what is exported (shared via nfs) on your FOG server.

  • I am trying to image a lab of Dell Precision 1700's.

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    Wayne WorkmanW

    @smazzola said in I am trying to image a lab of Dell Precision 1700's.:

    @sudburr

    I created the image in UEFI mode. I had to turn on the Legacy Roms in order to get the device to pxe. However, I never took the device out of UEFI mode. I used the same settings on the machine I brought the image down to.

    But, the image was captured in UEFI mode. This hasn’t changed. The destination computers must be configured in exactly the way the source computer was configured - before you changed things around - in order for the image to boot as expected on the destination computers.

    Please read through my previous post.

  • Download / Deploy task isn't completing

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    Wayne WorkmanW

    @TThax You don’t need to actually download the client. The latest kernel, init, and client gets downloaded automatically when you run the fog installer. You just need to update to the latest FOG release candidate, run that installer, and you should be good to go.

  • Unsure if these settings in FOG are correct

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    @Sebastian-Roth I agree, after looking at a dhcp booting process all weekend I can read the pcap like code from the matrix.

    The requesting system is in BIOS mode so undionly is the proper boot kernel for it. I see the target requested the file size for undionly.0 from the tftp server at 192.168.1.133 with no second response from the fog server or no request for undionly.0 to be downloaded from the tftp server. This tells me the tftp server responded with “file not found” for undionly.0.

  • Cannot establish a connection to server

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    Well then… those things happen. Marking it solved. Feel free to ask more questions if it starts happening again.

  • Partclone loops

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    Tom ElliottT

    @Sebastian-Roth I have a feeling the “looping” without reboot actually “was looping with reboot” it was just a matter of “timing” between when it restarted due to failure and starting gathering the data itself.

    This particularly so considering nothing in the init’s changed in the time the issue occurred and when the updates happened.

  • Regarding /opt/fog/.fogsettings

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    sudburrS

    Thank you horse’s mouth!

  • Alternative to PXE boot

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    george1421G

    So what should you do first. I assume today you have the proper line in your current PXE boot menu to forward the client to the FOG server, Right??

    Take a test computer and collect its mac address, then get with your networking or admin group and have them insert the line from your current pxe menu into a text file and title that file the mac address of your target computer. I think you create the file name without any punctuation. So the file name should be like: 0018DC234567 Then pxe boot the target computer and see what happens.

    Actually read over this page it does a lot better explaining of syslinux pxe booting than I can: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=PXELINUX Plus I had the search order backwards (go figure)

  • System Hangs - Boot from SAN device

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    Everything here works now though - including EXIT where I need it. Thanks again.

    -Dustin

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