[quote=“Ricardo Sanches, post: 40277, member: 25923”]Ok so I asked to change the bootfile to undionly.kpxe and it and passes that step and it goes to [FONT=arial][COLOR=#545454][SIZE=3]“iPXE [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=arial][COLOR=#545454][B][SIZE=3]initializing devices” and the Pc just reboots without showing any menu. Now what am I doing wrong???[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR][/FONT][/quote]

I solved my PXE-T01 issues by using DNSMASQ

[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Using_FOG_with_an_unmodifiable_DHCP_server/_Using_FOG_with_no_DHCP_server#DNSMASQ_settings_for_iPXE[/url]

Thank you for the info Junkhacker. I was able to recover the storage. Somewhere along the lines the configuration got lost. I reconfigured the system manually and I was able to recovered the storage.

Thank you Tom, you’re really fast !

I understand… Google “translation” doesn’t translate effectively well the English in French.
But most of the open-source softwares are in English so don’t be in a hury, we can bear with it !

I thank you for your answer and for your work. Competitors will be misty by FOG.

is this with all 780’s or 1 or a select few?
i’ve had a few issues with 780’s and 380’s where they performed slower then they should while booted into windows, and the I/O chip on the motherboard (the one that doesn’t have a heatsink) gets so hot you can’t keep a finger on it. just the other day i had one of these that i was having trouble getting to work with fog, and after being really persistent with it, it eventually failed to boot at all any more. as in, will not go past the dell splash screen, freezes 😞

ok thx, its just a report, it doesent behind me in any way.

So, I found a very odd but simple solution. Apparently hitting the Enter key on the keyboard advanced it to the next screen, and started uploading. Odd, but it worked.

I have the same issue. I am using an Lenovo Yoga S1 (Yoga 2) with the Lenovo USB to Ethernet Dongle which is using a realtek driver (I think).

This is the furthest I have been able to get. Any help to get over the edge would be great.

Thanks

Pete

Found a solution!

Long story short I took the laptop and installed Ubuntu. Then I installed Win 7 Enterprise, created a Fog image with this PC, and then used this to image the pc. Went to bitlocker it and it worked.

So what does this mean? Apparently I was not able to take a Win 7 Pro laptop, out of the box, install Win 7 Enterprise, and bitlocker it. Windows, for whatever reason, does not like an OS to OS change. I must not be getting a clean install of Win 7 Enterprise. And I did remember to format the partition(s).

Anyway, it took an unconventional approach to fix this problem.

Found it /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf

Thanks Tom!!

[quote=“TaTa, post: 40386, member: 24583”]Have you tried to change fog menu exiting style?

Go to Web GUI —> FOG Configuration ----> iPXE Boot Menu —> [FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#000000]Exit to Hard Drive Type[/COLOR][/FONT][/quote]

I set the Exit to Hard Drive Type value to GRUB style and this seems to have resolved the problem.

Interestingly, I checked our physical server settings and it had the same setting that was causing problems with the Virtual Server.

Either way, its working great now, thanks for the help.

For now I will do some housekeeping. Some of the images can be deleted and some of them can be stored offline.

Thanks!

[quote=“Lee Rowlett, post: 40352, member: 28”]put it this way, we have 2500 Devices, 23 different models (yes 23!! don’t ask, serious just don’t ask!) 18 sites “large” sites across the stretch of the country (UK) and we can rebuild a machine (with all the software, bells, whistles you name it + more) in under 15 minutes, regardless of what site and it only takes a minute of an engineers time to do (less if device is registered)
just kick it off and check webgui in 15 mins or so.
[/quote]

23 doesn’t sound bad at all to me. we have 33 models in the 800 or so machines currently in fog

Hi Tom,

As it turns out, the problem was a self inflicted wound. Our Apple guy also has ain image server running. He turned it on the other day. I noticed in the logs that the system would ask for an address first from the FOG server and then from the Apple image server immediately after that. It would then invariably die while trying to connect to the Apple server. I unplugged then network card on the apple box and stuff started working again.

Thanks for the help!

John

Finally works.

sudo service ufw disable edit in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf filename from “undionly.kpxe” to “ipxe.pxe” sudo service isc-dhcp-server restart changed from Realtek to Intel 1000 Desktop in Network option Virtualbox
Thank you Tom and jbsclm

You brilliant bastard!

Hah, thanks for the help.
Again… sorry for the noobishness

(summary of resolution)

Edit the /etc/vsftpd.conf and append: seccomp_sandbox=NO and restart the service (sudo service vsftpd restart) Adding password to storage node in the gui Rebooting Fixing schema table with “sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.5” Retry upload tasks

----it now uploads and makes the appropriate folder in IMAGES as intended and not the “dev” folder; aka, it’s working again!!!----

THANKS!!!

That’s actually not bad idea at all, so my main VM OS, (ubuntu) would be on the same VLAN as my main computer. I can use the usb/nic adapter as the second adapter only on linux have have fog on it’s own isolated LAN. The problem is I’m bound to run into many issues with this, but it can be done

You’re right on that, I’ll just use clonezilla live to burn ISO images to use

I still don’t see a reason to sysprep. Why would I want to pre-install the drivers if the drivers are fully loaded already? Every time I have imaged with Fog, I have used syspreped images only because I was taught to do so. However I know a couple of colleagues that do not sysprep at all, yet let me know the biggest problem I would run into is ip conflicts if I’m not careful. (Also told me to make sure the images are obviously not on the domain with the same domain name)

Now for OEM manfucaturer licensing, the laptops coming in all have their own individual license. If I sysprep a laptop, clone it, then deploy it onto another, I will not have an active license. This is going to be my biggest issue and will involve a lot of research, hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.

No worries about the aircard, I honestly think I’m just going to be activating the air-cards after the imaging.

And for your last paragraph, I as well have colleagues that said it was fine minus the matching dhcp leases and having to change the hostname before joining to a domain.

Thanks Eddie

If you’re running windows7sysprep, but this is setup for Multi-Partition (Non-resizable), I only have one guess as to why your image isn’t deploying. That guess is the disk you’re attempting to push to is smaller than the disk this image was created from.

there is no error - uploads fine etc - only go to images and no image - but in the DEV folder it’s clearly sat there and not processed properly to a folder name in the /images. Thanks