NEED Help with Booting to fog wth UEFI
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SO We are about tto oder 3oo new DELL optiplex 7070 ultras and I just foudn out dell has removed the ability to use Legacy Boot options in their newer Computers. I have followed the direction in this wiki
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/BIOS_and_UEFI_Co-Existence#Using_Windows_Server_2012_.28R1_and_later.29_DHCP_Policy
ANd I still can not get the computer to boot to fog. What am I doing wrong I am beyond Confused now -
So what is the make/model/version of your dhcp server?
What version of FOG is on your FOG server?
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windows server Server 2012 R2
Fog is 1.5.7
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When I tell it to boot the nic it wont even try to boot to fog you see the mac address and then it stops
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@george1421 this is what im getting it’s going no where
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@darkxeno OK, lets jump right into the hard stuff.
Follow the instructions on this tutorial. Post the pcap to a fileshare that you have (google drive, one drive, dropbox). Just share it as public read. Then post the link here. Once we have a look at it you may delete it from the file share site. The pcap will tell us what the computer is being told to do.
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9673/when-dhcp-pxe-booting-process-goes-bad-and-you-have-no-clue
This works best of the fog server and pxe booting client are on the same subnet. That way we will get the entire picture of the pxe booting process.
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@darkxeno Just as a comment. My eyes are old, it would be helpful to only see the text in question. I see what it says, but having a large area of the picture with no information doesn’t add value.
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@george1421 So for UEFI PXE to Work the computer needs to be in the same subnet as my fogserver?
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@darkxeno said in NEED Help with Booting to fog wth UEFI:
@george1421 So for UEFI PXE to Work the computer needs to be in the same subnet as my fogserver?
No to get the complete picture they need to be on the same subnet for debugging purposes. If they are on different subnets then you will need to load wireshark on a witness computer connect to the same subnet as the pxe booting computer and run a capture filter of
port 67 or port 68to see the dhcp side of the conversation. -
@george1421 I got it to boot to fog however I am not getting an error when i got to register the computer to the fogserver IT’s telling me cannot find disk on system (gethardDIsk) Now this computer is using a .m2 drive would that cause the issue?
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@darkxeno In the dell firmware switch the disk controller from Raid-on to AHCI mode. Unless you have more than one disk connected in a raid configuration raid-on mode doesn’t help you. There is a document issues between linux and intel controllers in raid-on mode. Once you have imaged with fog you can switch back to raid-on mode or leave it in ahci mode. It doesn’t matter to windows.
