IPXE boot to fog cloud server

[ipxefoguser]

@sebastian-roth bingo and it has sorta worked but the issue is whatever kernel fog uses to do that system registration is just too old for this brand new machine and it misses the harddisk entirely. This has happened when installing locally as well. So idk what core system y’all use but we need to update it to the most recent

[Sebastian Roth]

@ipxefoguser You can update the kernel in the FOG web UI. Go to FOG Configuration -> Kernel Update

[Wayne Workman]

Documentation for kernel update:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Kernel_Update

[ipxefoguser]

@wayne-workman
I really appreciate all your help over the thread. Sadly this machine has a lot of issues in booting except for the latest linux. I only managed to get debian 10 pre release and gentoo to run. So FOG is probably gonna take a while. The issue is around it recognizing the internal harddrive otherwise it just skips over it on the boot screen and choses the usb drive. I looked around and it seems to be a linux kernel issue that got resolved only in october or so release

[Wayne Workman]

@ipxefoguser Welcome. When I post stuff, it’s both for the OP (you) and for future readers too, hence all the documentation links.

[george1421]

@ipxefoguser said in IPXE boot to fog cloud server:

I made the ipxe usb drive boot from the ipxe site. Maybe there is a different version but i certainly didnt see anything else.

while I know there was some additional discussions in this thread that I haven’t got to just yet, but this is the problem. You need to use the FOG iPXE files from the fog server, your ipxe files are missing the fog configuration scripts that are embedded into the fog delivered ipxe files.

[Wayne Workman]

@george1421 that’s what I told him too.