Workstation does not reboot after imaging

[greichelt]

@george1421 I setup dnsmasq as you have suggested as I was not able to get my VMware VMs to EFI PXE; however, I am getting the as shown in the screenshot below when I legacy boot. EFI no longer functions on my working Dells. I am using Ubuntu 16.04. My FOG server is 172.31.0.2 (I updated all 5 entries in the script in the link you provided). I’m not sure where to go from here.

[george1421]

@greichelt This one is an interesting one because it looks like all of the bits are in the right spot. But something is off in the config file. No worries we can get this sorted pretty easily. I know the config file if used exactly from the tutorial works perfectly. There are some boot roms that need an additional tweak but I haven’t come across those systems in a few years.

There is two things I need.

1. Post the entire ltsp.conf file here
2. If the lstp.conf file doesn’t give us the clues I have another tutorial that we can capture the pxe boot process: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9673/when-dhcp-pxe-booting-process-goes-bad-and-you-have-no-clue I can either tell you how to decode this file with wireshark or you can upload it to a file share site and post the link here. Once I review the file you can take it down from the file share site.

[greichelt]

@george1421 Thank you so much for the quick reply. I figured this part out. I ran sudo apt-get install dnsmasq and didn’t really pay attention to what was going on. It told me the latest version for LTS 16.04 was already installed, so I was still on 2.75. After a bunch of googlefoo, I check the version with dnsmasq -v and saw my error. I followed this - https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=ProxyDHCP_with_dnsmasq and installed 2.76. Now, it’s working! This unfortunately broke DNS lookups on my FOG server and I’m not sure how to fix it. I can ping 8.8.8.8 and get a response, but can’t nslookup.

[george1421]

@greichelt On your fog server itself, there is a config file /etc/resolv.conf that file should list your name servers (DNS servers) used for the fog server to do name lookups. A quick google-fu will show you the parameters needed for that file. Typically on ubuntu that file is managed by the network manager application. Just be aware of that because it may overwrite any settings you add. For the network manager application that is typically an application on the tool tray that deals with network configuration (sorry I’m a rhel guy, so I can’t give exact instructions for ubuntu).