Hi there
If someone else reads this and they aren’t using autoexec.ipxe (just the default.ipxe like me) and still has this error I’ve got the solution that worked for me:

I had to downgrade the GRUB version from 2.12 to 2.06 in my Linux images (mostly Kali Linux).
Version 2.12 has a bug (bug #67078) which is mentioned here: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67078

The downgrade works as follows:
Create a pin file: sudo vim /etc/apt/preferences.d/grub-pin
Content of the file:

Package: grub* grub2* Pin: version 2.06* Pin-Priority: 1001

sudo apt update
Downgrade grub packages: sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo grub-install
sudo update-grub
verify the installed version: dpkg -l | grep grub-common

You can now capture and deploy the the image.

Edit: of course I am and was using the latest FOG 1.5.10.1667 with newest Kernel and Initrd versions.

@Mdearmas I think I would start with your router. Look up the model and how to enable directed broadcasts, also look to see if there is any helper services that can be turned on to forward WOL packets to the target LAN. Your issue isn’t with FOG, but rather its a network infrastructure issue.

@Clebboii These warnings are safe to ignore. While the REQUEST_METHOD issue you’re seeing has already been fixed in dev-branch, the dashboard page issue you’re seeing is just because sometimes the values are set, sometimes they’re not. Unfortunately there’s no real way to validate cleanly. (at least right away or easily at this point in time. But it’s not causing issues.)

I’m not seeing there being issues with the files syncing? It seems, to me, the location it’s sending the file to (192.168.140.39) isn’t accepting ftp?

@george1421 Resolved: A 3rd party package in my router was intercepting my outbound FTP connections.

Tom
I still get this error when I try to Create a New Image:
This page isn’t working
10.149.50.21 is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500

Web searches says this is a server provider issue. Is there something in Fog Project that can be checked for me?

I’ve gotten a very similar set up to what you want and have tried working.

You’ll need to either rebuild the FOG version of iPXE with the shim command enabled or use a stock version of iPXE with the default.ipxe script replaced with an autoexec.ipxe script (I haven’t tested this so you mileage may vary). Once you’ve done that you can just sign your iPXE binary with your sec boot key, and save it as grubx64.efi (or see this Shim Issue or this part of the foguefi install script if you use Dell PCs.)

Finally now when you netboot, provided you also have mokmanager (mmx64.efi) in the same folder, you’ll be prompted to install your secboot key and on next boot you’ll be able to boot. iPXE with secure boot on. You will also need to sign you bzImage etc and then modify your default.ipxe script to load the shim with the shim command, and then you’ll be able to boot into fog fully!

If anyone wants I can put together a more coherent guide and I’m happy to answer any questions you have on this.

Hi @Tom-Elliott,

Currently both nodes are in the same storage group as I want to replicate images and snapins from the Master to the Normal storage Node. I read through some documentation and it seems this should still happen if they are in different storage groups. Is this true?

If so, I believe this second issue should be fixed.

@Tom-Elliott sounds good!

Hi @rodluz

Just wanted to confirm that this update has worked. Now deploying my images in <5mins.

Thank you for your help.

@george1421 Thank you so much! I enabled portfast on the switch port, and it works on physical PCs.

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on "/dev/ram0" or unknown-block(1,0) Kernel Offset: disabled ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on "/dev/ram0" or unknown-block(1,0)

But sometimes this error appears even if I haven’t changed anything in the configuration and files. Even if I update or roll back the init.xz or bzImage file to a previous version, it doesn’t help. The only thing that seems to work is setting up a completely new FOG server, but after some time, the problem can come back. How I can find right version or how I can solve this problem? Most time it error on PCs with UEFI

@uzee FOG doesn’t change or really step into the target system during deployment. You CAN do this if you write a post install script that will get called once the target image is deployed to the target computer. In the case of a linux computer you could potentially set the target computer’s name here by updating the /etc/hostname file or anything else you can do with a bash script. The FOG Client can also be configured to make changes to the target computer or install applications based on instructions from the fog server. Its really identifying what you want to do and how much automation you want to script. Its all possible with FOG and a little creativity on your end. Since you already know Ubuntu (linux) bending FOG to what you want will be easier than coming strictly from a MS Windows background.

version is 1.5.10

I was not able to figure out capturing the image from a VM, I decided to use an actual desktop as the master/golden image. It made more sense as it would include the right hardware type, drivers, etc. I have captured the image finally. Now on to deployment

@Ryxn I checked and that nic has been in the linux kernel for several years.

And secondly when you checked for missing firmware the kernel wasn’t complaining about missing something.

Its a good thing you were able to get the error while in debug mode. Because that was going to be the next quest for you. To get the system when its behaving badly.

So when you get it into debug mode and its complaining about no nic lets do the following.

ip a s should show if the network interface has an ip address, I’m going to suspect no because it complained about it earlier in the boot process.

lspci -k -nn | more Look through this list until you find the entry. The number in the square brackets will be what you posted earlier. [8086&1502]. See if the nic is visible to the kernel. AND if it is it should mention what kernel driver its using. I’ll give you a for example using my laptop.

0000:00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection ( 13) I219-V [8086:15fc] (rev 20) Subsystem: Dell Ethernet Connection (13) I219-V [1028:0a22] Kernel driver in use: e1000e Kernel modules: e1000e

lastly if everything looks good, kernel sees the nic, there is a kernel driver assigned. Lets see if time fixes your problem.

When you ran the ip a s command it listed all of the network interfaces and if it has IP addresses. You will need to know the interface name for your network adapter. It may be something like eno1 or ens192, or something else. Get that device name.

Now run this command /sbin/udhcpc -i $iface --now replacing the whole word $iface with the device name listed from the ip command. This will tell the network adapter to again poll for an IP address from your dhcp server. If it picks up an IP address this time, then time does solve your problem and you will need to look into your network configuration and make sure that port-fast or fast-stp is enabled on your network port.

@Tom-Elliott said in Fog iPXE Menu no input:

@SotY The files of console.h/general.h/settings.h were updated 2 - 4 months ago. I don’t think anything here is the cause of the failure. I’ve attempted building and am seeing the same error.

This leads me to think something changed with ipxe code particularly surrounding USB_HCD_USBIO and efi built binaries. It seems the efi builder has a native compiler point for it’s own USBIO that’s being constructed separately from the “common” source.

If you just build the binaries without the USBIO configured, does it break things? I know you found a fix and wanted to try it, but it seems mcb30 (main developer of ipxe) made a change that seems to make the usbio drivers act differently in the past. What those changes were, I do not know at this time.

I am more surprised, in my quick review of things, that this even worked before as the components I see erroring haven’t change significantly.

If I change the usbio_driver line to efi_usbio_driver in the drivers/usb/usbio.c file, and re-run the builder, things build successfully. (Including the ncm–ecm-axge.).

If that works, I can put my diff file and copy it with the build script but I’m scared something I’m doing in the driver/usb/usb.c file might be unintentionally making things worse (not better) even though I’m getting successful builds now.

I have config files from previous version and all 3 were changed. I just narrowed it down to changes in general.h file. Compiling with USB_HCD_USBIO enabled works fine when using previous general.h and new console.h and settings.h files. I need more time to find out which change broke it. These are the changes:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -+ #define NET_PROTO_EAPOL /* EAP over LAN protocol */ #define NET_PROTO_LLDP /* Link Layer Discovery protocol */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -+ * 802.1x EAP authentication methods * */ #define EAP_METHOD_MD5 /* MD5-Challenge port authentication */ //#define EAP_METHOD_MSCHAPV2 /* MS-CHAPv2 port authentication */ /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -+ #define IMAGE_ZLIB /* ZLIB image support */ #define IMAGE_GZIP /* GZIP image support */ //#define IMAGE_UCODE /* Microcode update image support */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -+ #define FORM_CMD /* Form commands */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -+ //#define IMAGE_CRYPT_CMD /* Image encryption management commands */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #define PARAM_CMD /* Form parameter commands */ <> #define PARAM_CMD /* Request parameter commands */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -+ #define IMAGE_MEM_CMD /* Read memory command */ #define IMAGE_ARCHIVE_CMD /* Archive image management commands */ #define SHIM_CMD /* EFI shim command (or dummy command) */ #define USB_CMD /* USB commands */ //#define FDT_CMD /* Flattened Device Tree commands */ /* * Certificate sources * */ //#undef CERTS_EFI /* EFI certificate sources */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

It’s weird, git shows the last update for general.h on May 11, but I installed FOG on June 10 and that’s when I did git clone and back then the files were different than they are now. These are the files I got on June 10:

console.h: https://pastebin.com/wmy449T0
general.h: https://pastebin.com/GUyqbY3F
settings.h: https://pastebin.com/Ta738Fmn