Hi guys,

and thank you Fernando: it’s now working!

The configuration is:

a multiboot Win7/Ubuntu 12.04 (alpha2) (anyway 11.10 is the same) deploying on a Dell Optiplex 960 Fog 0.32 (no cutomization)

The PC configuration is:
4 primary partitions sda1 and sda2 for Windows7, sda3 for swap, sda4 for linux (ext3)

The fog server configuration is 1 disk, multipartition, declaring as ostype linux
(declaring it as windows does not work)

The installations are a base Windows 7 installation, and a base Ubuntu installation
CHANGING TO GRUB-LEGACY: this was my problem: grub2 seems to be not working.

Now I’m writing some documentation, and then I’ll try to customize my Ubuntu and Windows
installation to fit my organization, but the base deploying infrastructure seems ok!

thank you again
giammy

Hi,
we deploy Centos and (K)Ubuntu sistems without problems. Are you try to upload a Ubuntu 10.xx image?
If you need deploy a ubuntu 11.xx image, you need make some changes:
*create or modify the menu.lst file
*install and configure the grub-legacy
See the next documentation (sorry only in spanish, but you can use Google traductor 🙂 )
[url]http://www.ehu.es/es/web/instalaciones/fogehu/-/wiki/main/conocimiento[/url] (see Despliegue de imágenes con Ubuntu 11.04)

It is a fairly new thing.

The problem I always had with memdisk and floppy images was that different vendors handled the pxe stacks differently. Many of my intel machines would work fine, some needed other options to work, and some wouldn’t work at all. From all the reading at the time (this has been a few years back) all the problems were because there is no good pxe standard. I haven’t used it much but gPXE (or is it iPXE now?) might be the first thing you want to load, then pass your other pxe options to it, you will probably get better results that way. From my limited knowledge of this you would probably want to chainload it (according to the ipxe.org website),

[SIZE=4][B][FONT=Lucida Grande][SIZE=18px][COLOR=#000000]Chainloading from an existing PXE ROM[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/SIZE]

[FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#000000][URL=‘http://ipxe.org/_detail/clipart/chain.jpeg?id=download’][COLOR=#436976][RIGHT][IMG]http://ipxe.org/_media/clipart/chain.jpeg?w=200&h=96[/IMG][/RIGHT][/COLOR][/URL]
You can chainload iPXE from an existing PXE ROM. This is useful if you have a large number of machines that you want to be able to boot using iPXE, but you do not want to reflash the network card on each individual machine.
You can build a chainloadable iPXE image using:
[SIZE=12px] make bin/undionly.kpxe[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT]

Good luck.