Best practice if a kernel will not boot a system?

[Matt.Collins]

You can have multiple kernels installed on your system, however you need to add the kernel location to the host. For example fog/kernel/kernel name would be what I would input under the host settings.

If you don’t find a kernel that works with your machines, you’ll have to compile your own, which is out of my league. Perhaps someone with a bit more knowledge on building kernels can step in here.

[x23piracy]

Hi,

thanks again… well i will figure that out and report back…
Lets build a kernel K+E+R+N+E+L childsplay hehe [I]*joking[/I]

Greetz X23

[Dustin]

I’m at a loss because NONE of the Kernels will boot our new Lenovo E420 laptops. Still have MDT I can revert to for one offs but this will be difficult when having to do an entire lab.

[madeyem]

If no kernel works:

• Take the HDD out of the machine, that can’t boot FOG
• Put it in a machine, that can boot FOG
• Assign the right image to that machine
• Choose “Shutdown after task completion” in task configuration
• Start task
• After task is finished, put the HDD back in the original machine
• Start the machine

This is a workaround, if you have generalized images (Sysprep for Windows).

[Dustin]

Good work around for our one offs! Thanks!
[quote=“madeyem, post: 12134, member: 797”]If no kernel works:

• Take the HDD out of the machine, that can’t boot FOG
• Put it in a machine, that can boot FOG
• Assign the right image to that machine
• Choose “Shutdown after task completion” in task configuration
• Start task
• After task is finished, put the HDD back in the original machine
• Start the machine

This is a workaround, if you have generalized images (Sysprep for Windows).[/quote]

[x23piracy]

Hi,

[quote=“madeyem, post: 12134, member: 797”]This is a workaround, if you have generalized images (Sysprep for Windows).[/quote]

but only in case of deploy, i mainly will use fog to backup, i cannot go to each not booting machine the backup manually.
Seems i really have to cook a kernel myself argh!

Greetz X23

[x23piracy]

Hi,

[quote=“Dustin, post: 12135, member: 3324”]Good work around for our one offs! Thanks![/quote]

have you ever tried a self made kernel? Iam actually testing with kernel sources of 2.6.39.4 and 3.9.2

Greetz X23

[chad-bisd]

If you need help making a custom kernel, just keep up with what you’ve done, post your questions, and we’ll help as best we can. It appears daunting, but after you run through it a few times on a VM, it’s gets simple.

[x23piracy]

Hi,

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 12149, member: 18”]If you need help making a custom kernel, just keep up with what you’ve done, post your questions, and we’ll help as best we can. It appears daunting, but after you run through it a few times on a VM, it’s gets simple.[/quote]

actually it’s doing fine i have succesfully compiled two kernels but i cannot test them at home, iam back at work next week on tuesday. [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Building_a_Custom_Kernel[/url]

Will the latest 3x kernel work with fog? is it true that the april kernel 3.8.8 is then a 3.8.8x kernel?

Greetz X23

[x23piracy]

Hi,

@Dustin would you like to test a kernel i compiled with latest kernel sources 3.9.2?

Greetz X23

[x23piracy]

Hi,

i compiled my own kernel 3.9.2-4 and two of the machines work now instead that one tells me now hdd not found instead of kernel panic but this is only one missing driver.

Greetz X23