FOG USB Boot media with Intel NUC7i5BNH

[theland10]

@george1421 Thanks George, and yes, I have tried both with updated firmware and with a new one, no changes, straight out of the box. Same issue.

It does have a built in wireless card. I just tried disabling in bios and booting from the stick, no luck. I do not think I have tried with the default ipxe.efi from the server.

I have some things to attend to this morning and will update later today.

Thank you.

[theland10]

@george1421 With default ipxe.efi from server, same issue. Only slight difference is instead of showing ‘no config methods succeeded’ and immediately kicking back to the boot menu it attempts to configure twice then gives option to hit ‘s’ for iPXE shell. Using ‘dhcp’ command gives same output, no configs succeeded.

[Sebastian Roth]

@theland10 From what you have tried and told us so far it’s very likely iPXE simply doesn’t like/support the network interface card. Do you know the exact network chip you have in those models? Please try booting a Live Linux from CD/DVD, run lspci -nn | grep -i -e ethernet -e network and post output/picture here.

[george1421]

Sebastian-Roth said in FOG USB Boot media with Intel NUC7i5BNH:

Please try booting a Live Linux from CD/DVD, run lspci -nn | grep -i -e ethernet -e network and post output/picture here.

Or from a running windows computer post the hardware id for that network adapter both the vendor and model bits.

[theland10]

@george1421 Intel l219-V

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_15D8&SUBSYS_20688086&REV_21
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_15D8&SUBSYS_20688086
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_15D8&CC_020000
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_15D8&CC_0200

[Sebastian Roth]

@theland10 Intersting, the iPXE lists this NIC as supported: https://ipxe.org/appnote/hardware_drivers

Can you try using intel.efi?

[Sebastian Roth]

@theland10 As well please do a simple link check. Boot to the point where it tries to get an IP twice and drops you to a shell. Now check the LED. Link on? Pull the cable, wait 3 seconds, plug it back in and wait to see if the LED comes back on?!

Now run ifstat in the iPXE shell and post output here.

[theland10]

@Sebastian-Roth Gives MAC address on first line:

xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx using i319v-4 on 0000:00:1f.6 (closed)
[Link:up, TX:8 TXE:2 RX:0 RXE:0]
[TXE: 2 x “Operation not supported (http://ipxe.org/3c654083)”]

[Sebastian Roth]

@theland10 said in FOG USB Boot media with Intel NUC7i5BNH:

TX:8 TXE:2 RX:0 RXE:0

That’s the interesting part of the output. It tried to send eight packets (transmitted packets) and got two errors (TXE). While error sounds bad it really does not have to be in all cases. I am not a iPXE hacker and only know the code a bit but as far as I remember there are many situations where TXE count doesn’t actually mean a problem. But the issue I see is that there is no RX (received packets) whatsoever. I have no idea why that might happen.

Did you do the link check I asked you to in the last post? As well tried intel.efi yet?

[theland10]

@Sebastian-Roth Yes and yes. That ifstat output was directly after ensuring I had link lights from replugging the Lan cable. Which was directly after entering the ipxe menu from a failed boot using the intel.efi

[Sebastian Roth]

@theland10 Then I suppose we are down to the bones and need to enable debugging in iPXE. When requesting a binary from rom-o-matic there is a field Debug build. Put intel into that field and you should get some more output - fancy in colors.

[theland10]

@Sebastian-Roth Here is the output from the debugger:

Also, our resident linux guru (I’m very much a beginner but I pick up quickly) and myself have been trying to set up the FOS Linux boot stick in the meantime. We are able to get to the selection menu to choose quick register/full register/capture etc. It sees both our DHCP servers and pulls an IP ok but ends with an error unable to access FogserverIP/fog/index.php or FogserverIP/index.php.

[Sebastian Roth]

@theland10 Hmmmmm, in the picture I see Received DHCP answer on interface net0 … Looks very different to what you told us before. Maybe debugging causes different timings within the driver and make it work?!

The error in the picture makes me think that maybe the default gateway option is not properly propagated to the client and it cannot reach IP 172.17.1.171 because of that?! Why is the IP different on the first TFTP pull (ipxe.efi) than on the second one (default.ipxe). Possibly it’s for a good reason but things just don’t add up for me here.

[theland10]

@Sebastian-Roth I was confused about that myself. The 172.17.65.19 is our fog server. 172.17.1.171 is the server for our virtual devices we have set up for PXE booting, and the reason why we are using the USB boot media as opposed to using straight PXE booting for fog. That IP was not entered anywhere in the setup on rom-o-matic for the efi file. I’m going to try a slight change to the script on that.

[george1421]

@theland10 I did add some hints for booting straight into FOS via usb in the forum chat. Look at the chat bubble in the upper right corner of the browser window.

[theland10]

@george1421 Yes, I got it! I tested and was able to successfully register the device as host with both quick and full registration options. Will test deploy and capture tomorrow. Thank you!

[theland10]

@theland10 No luck with the FOS Boot stick. On the NUC7i5 tried to capture and partclone gives an error with the text broken and spread across the screen, part of it says ‘Maybe check the server to make sure space is good to go?’.

Tried imaging one of our other HP models that I have successfully captured and imaged with the regular USB boot media and receive the following error:

Fatal Error: Unknown request type :: null

Kernel Variables and settings:
boot_image=/boot/bzimage loglevel=4 initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 keymap= web=172.17.65.19/fog/ boottype=usb consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4.

Tried with both original bzimage, bzimage32, init.xz,init_32.xz files and files from our fog server.

[george1421]

@theland10 said in FOG USB Boot media with Intel NUC7i5BNH:

Fatal Error: Unknown request type :: null

This error can be tracked back to one of the caveats of this process. You MUST schedule the task on the FOG server before picking option 1 from the grub menu. If you do that then imaging will work. This is one of the issues without using iPXE. You loose the tight integration with FOG. But sometimes you have no choice.

Now for the NUC…
From the FOS Linux usb boot device, select option 6 for debug mode. Once its booted you will be dropped to the FOS LInux command prompt. Key in the following commands to FOS Linux

1. ip addr show
2. lsblk

Based on the results of these commands we have a few more, but lets see which direction first (networking or disk).

[theland10]

@george1421 Ahhh, I see, thank you, I was able to successfully image another device with the FOS USB after queuing the task first in fog.

As for the NUC see below:

[george1421]

@theland10 Well that’s a good thing and a bad thing. The good part is both the network adapter (eno1) and the disk drive (nvme0n1) are being seen by the FOS Linux OS. The bad part is that there is no indication of what the actual error is.

Ideally we’d like to get a screen shot of the error that is displayed (it should be working!!).

let me think for a moment.