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  Creating & deploying live OS
  • Kermion

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  @kermion said in Creating & deploying live OS:

  kernel http://${fog-ip}/img/PopOS/linux/boot/vmlinuz
  initrd http://${fog-ip}/img/PopOS/linux/boot/initrfs.img root=http://${fog-ip}/img/PopOS/linux/ load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 apparmor=0 debug
  boot || goto MENU
  Kernel Panic -not syncing : VFS unable to mount rootfs on unknown-block{0,0}

  The kernel panic is that the kernel can’t mount the initrd file. While I haven’t messed with popos I can only guess at this one.

  Lets try to change up the fog ipxe menu to something like this

  kernel http://${fog-ip}/img/PopOS/linux/boot/vmlinuz initrd http://${fog-ip}/img/PopOS/linux/boot/initrfs.img imgargs vmlinuz initrd=initrfs.img root=http://${fog-ip}/img/PopOS/linux/ load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 apparmor=0 debug boot || goto MENU

  Now your popos files for this http://${fog-ip}/img/PopOS/linux/ need to exist under the apache document root.

  /var/www/html/img/PopOS/linux/ In this directory is where you need to place the content of the iso image.

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  Fiber card PN9210 will not install on Ubuntu 20.04
  • jessicam12

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  Ubuntu LTS upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04 now fog project not available
  • thebaz

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  @thebaz The number of times someone has upgraded the OS of their FOG server and broken FOG is a lot. So many that it prompted me to write this article about five years ago. The article is still valid. My advice is to not upgrade the OS of your FOG server, unless it’s in a VM and you take a snapshot before hand. If it’s not in a VM, your safest choice is to migrate.

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  SOLVED PHP Fatal Error call to undefined function
  • Edwards07256

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  @george1421 Hey George, sorry I didn’t reply yesterday. I did get everything running successfully. Captured an image and deploying image right now! Appreciate all your help! Not sure how to mark this is as solved but its working!

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  Redhat 8 upgrade to 1.5.9
  • leonjv

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  @george1421 If I may ask you using the git method can I replace the mariadb references to mysql and mysql-server in another file other than .fogsettings . It seems changing it in .fogsettings has no effect it still tries to install mariadb

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  Proper way to install client on Linux hosts
  • AlanSmithee

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  @alansmithee said in Proper way to install client on Linux hosts:

  Actually I was wondering if it was feasible to install the client before capturing/deploying

  That is how you typically would do that in the windows world. From a windows perspective the fog client is installed then the service is set to disabled. At the end of the winsetup process windows calls a batch file called setupcomplete.cmd that is used to issue the commands to the fog client to startup on every reboot. The issue with windows is as soon as the fog client starts it will start executing its tasks. If windows oobe/winsetup is still doing their bits the fog client may reboot the computer without oobe being done, thus creating a botched install. Linux first boot is nothing like windows, so it may be OK to leave the linux fog client configured to auto start at each reboot.

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  CentOS LVM Slow Imaging
  • WT_101

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  @wt_101 said in CentOS LVM Slow Imaging:

  what do u mean by RAW image type?

  This is a mode for partclone when it can’t determine the format of the disk, this is a default mode when no other disk format filters exist, such as with LVM. In linux terms partclone uses dd (disk dump) format to image the disk. This is the slowest and largest format since it copies all disk blocks. Partclone might change to this format if it detects and encrypted drive where it can’t read the partition information because its encrypted.

  ref: https://partclone.org/usage/partclone.dd.php

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  TFTP Breaks with UFW Enabled on Ubuntu 20.04
  • turtledillpickle

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  SOLVED Red Hat Enterprise iso
  • nowin

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  fixed from me and working

  kernel tftp://${fog-ip}/os/redhat/r9/vmlinuz
  initrd tftp://${fog-ip}/os/redhat/r9/initrd.img
  imgargs vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img root=live:nfs://${fog-ip}:/images/os/redhat/r9/images/install.img ip=dhcp inst.repo=nfs:${fog-ip}:/images/os/redhat/r9/BaseOS splash quiet
  boot || goto MENU

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  Capturing image: "Maybe check the fog server to ensure disk space is good to go?"
  • xKyzor

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  @george1421 I finally got it working!

  I ran fsck.ext4 /dev/sda2 and it fixed the partition layout.

  Thanks again for your time

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  linux mint pxe
  • gedat

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  Capturing/Deploying Rocky 8.5
  • ben604

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  Thanks Wayne, I’ll get the the swap partitioned removed, recapture and try again!

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  SOLVED Booting to a Centos7 Image File
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  @george1421

  That was totally it! I was confusing myself with the /images directory for tftp. After changing the command to match the /tftpboot directory everything works perfectly. Thanks for your help!

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  Can I deploy a simple buildroot image with FOGProject?
  • tudor

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  @tudor said in Can I deploy a simple buildroot image with FOGProject?:

  Having to copy the image to a machine and back again would be an extra unneccesary step since we already have the image ready to go.

  Yeah I can see what you mean. Understood.

  If you want to use FOG for this (e.g. because you like the multicast feature) you will need to start investigating the image format and see if you can make it work. We are open to help you find the right track but it’s up to you to actually figure it out.

  FOG supports so called RAW image type with uses partclone.dd not (plain) dd. While I have used both extensively I never tried to deploy an image with dd that was created with partclone.dd or vice versa. Don’t think it’ll work but I am not sure. If it doesn’t then you might hack the bash script doing the deployment to just use dd (code reference).

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  PXE booting Ubuntu desktop 21.10
  • UntouchedWagons

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  @untouchedwagons Well I just copy&pasted this stuff. Now looking at the parameters again I think this part is not right: ... nfsroot=/${fog-ip}:/images/os... (remove the slash after the equal sign I would say)

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  Installation failure on Debian Bullseye
  • btphl

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  @btphl Version 1.5.10 will be released later this spring.

  To get the “current” version of 1.5.9 you can switch to the dev branch.

  change into fogproject installer directory.

  cd /root/fogproject git pull git checkout dev-branch git pull cd bin ./installfog.sh

  When 1.5.10 is released to change back.

  cd /root/fogproject git pull git checkout master git pull cd bin ./installfog.sh
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  Installation Failure on Ubuntu
  • jack_chapman

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  @jack_chapman

  As a personal rule (not from the FOG team). I would recommend sticking with LTS OSes when setting up servers unless you want to regularly be upgrading or migrating. Ubuntu Interim standard support from Canonical is SHORT (9 months).

  See 21.10 vs 18.04:
  https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

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  Installation stuck on centOS
  • anisgh

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  @anisgh Which version of Debian did you try to install FOG on? I am really wondering what’s going on because the error we see in the output posted doesn’t make sense to me. The package named mariadb-client is available in all current versios of Debian: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mariadb-client&searchon=names&suite=stable&section=all (for stretch, buster, bullseye, even bookworm and sid!)

  Please try installing it manually via apt-get install mariadb-client and see what error you get.

  So either you try to install on Debian 11 - then follow what George posted. Or you are using a really old version of Debian and need to update to a later one first.

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  Cloned PC takes longer to boot
  • Bristow 0

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  @bristow-0 Ok so what I’m working on is this rough outline of a script.

  If you run this command on your target computer it should return the uuid of the swap partition.
  blkid | grep swap | awk '{print $2}'

  So if we start building a script to automate the process it might start to look like this

  !#/bin/bash uuid=$(blkid | grep swap | awk '{print $2}') if grep -Fxq "RESUME=UUID" /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume then # if found replace with new uuid sed -i 's/^RESUME=UUID.*$/RESUME=${uuid}/' /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume else # if not found just append command to config file echo "RESUME=${uuid}" >>/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume update-initramfs -u

  This script would need to be executed on first boot of the target computer is what I’m thinking.