Lenovo z-50
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@Tom-Elliott I went ahead and switched the machine to UEFI and put in ipxe.efi as the file. I got a message that said “EFI Network 0 for IPv4 has been blocked by the current security policy.”
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@TechInADesert turn off secure boot
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@TechInADesert We are far from dead in the water in regards to FOG and these laptops.
Those realtek nic models are older and should be fully supported in FOG and iPXE. One thing we’ve seen with some Lenovo models, especially in uefi mode, they have buggy early release firmware. While I don’t think its going to solve this issue make sure you have the latest firmware (bios) installed on these devices.
If we can’t get these devices to pxe boot we can move to the USB boot method. Its not quite as flexible as the pxe booting process but for certain models its the only way to bypass a buggy pxe process.
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Here is the tutorial for creating a usb FOS boot image. https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7727/building-usb-booting-fos-image Make sure you read the caveats section as well as the post “image burn” onto the usb flash drive. You will need to update the grub config file with the IP address of your fog server.
Also look at the forum chat bubble for a few more helpful hints
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@Tom-Elliott Secure Boot was set to disable. I do see that under it says Secure Boot Status and that says Enabled. However, you can’t highlight the Secure Boot Status to change it. The BIOS is also updated to the most recent posted on Lenovo’s website.
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SOLVED IT
Thank you for all of your help. You guys were on the right track when you told me to try a different option 67. I, however, was not putting the option in the right scope. I was putting it in the default server options when I should have been putting it into our Tech LAN scope. Once I went into this scope and changed it to realtek.pxe and tried to boot the Lenovo Z-50 booted up just fine.
I’m learning a good deal about how the last person had our network set up every day. Check another thing off my list.
Question: Does the realtek.pxe take longer to work with imagines that the other? Usually, I can get an image done in a matter of minutes but I am uploading my raw file to FOG and I’m already at the 33-minute mark and it says there are 17 minutes left to go.
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@TechInADesert said in Lenovo z-50:
Question: Does the realtek.pxe take longer to work with imagines that the other?
No it doesn’t. The iPXE boot kernel (undionly.kpxe or realtek.kpxe) is only used to transfer FOS (bzImage and init.xz) to the target computer. Once FOS starts then the ipxe boot kernel is unloaded from memory. According to partclone what is your transfer rate?
Why are you uploading the image in raw format? FOS can’t take advantage of speed by only uploading disk blocks that have data in them. Its very uncommon to use raw disk format.
Lastly, how many of these z-50s will you have on your campus? What is your dhcp server used on your site (maker and version)? If its linux or Windows 2012 or newer we have some options.
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@george1421 Hello. When I referred to the image as “raw” it just means it’s the image I created without the sysprep. I always put a “raw” image so when I go to update the computers next year I do not have to start fresh. I can load that “raw” image onto a machine and make the changes I want and then upload a “final” image which is the one that is syspreped and ready to go.
When I put the image back onto a computer it took a matter of minutes, so that is fine. I can live with my “raw” image taking awhile to upload to FOG.
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@TechInADesert said in Lenovo z-50:
When I referred to the image as “raw” it just means it’s the image I created without the sysprep
Ah OK, because in FOG terms RAW is a specific disk capture mode, akin to “single disk non-resizable” but also includes empty blocks. So the images are huge and slow to capture.
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Yeah, too lessen confusion for myself, I called what you call “raw” a “super base” or “base”
Adjusting “base” for whatever I mean.
For example:
Superbase is the base image that ALL machines regardless of who or where the machine sits will start from.
XXXBase is a specific base based from the “superbase”.
Just my thoughts. No real value here!
