OptiPlex 5480 All-in-One

[george1421]

@the-dealman Well I tried to be like them cool linux kids and spit out commands left and right, but it seems I can’t spell worth a hoot.

Lets try this command with the missing e dmesg | less

[The Dealman]

@george1421 okay that worked but i didn’t see any error that said “failed to find”

This section has some network information, does this help?

[george1421]

@the-dealman I’m not seeing where its init’ing the network adapter in that screen shot. Will you upload the /var/log/messages file using this process and post it in this thread (I want to see the entire log file):

1. Insert the usb drive into the target computer.
2. issue this command from the debug console
   lsblk
3. I identify the usb flash drive by its size in the list. For the reset of this lets assume it shows up and /dev/sdb
4. Now let make a directory where we can mount that usb drive.
   mkdir /ext
5. Lets connect the usb drive to that directory
   mount /dev/sdb1 /ext
6. That command will mount the first partition on that usb stick to the /ext directory. Issue this command to see the contents of the usb drive
   ls -la /ext
7. If you see what is expected then copy the log file to the use flash drive directory.
   cp /var/log/messages /ext
8. When done unmount that usb drive with
   unmount /ext
9. Now you will be able to remove the usb drive. Don’t remove it before you unmount it and the command completes.

[Sebastian Roth]

@The-Dealman Beside grabbing and uploading the messages log here (hopefully that will help) you might also run ip a s on the debug console and post a picture of the output here.

[The Dealman]

@sebastian-roth @Sebastian-Roth Hi i had to pivot away from this for a bit but now I can pick this up again. Please the log you requested

messages.txt

[Sebastian Roth]

@The-Dealman Can’t find anything too obvious in the messages output yet.

Meanwhile we uploaded a way newer Kernel, 5.10.19, would you give that a try?

[The Dealman]

@sebastian-roth Sure. I will give that a try and report back

[The Dealman]

@sebastian-roth I just tried both the 32 and 64 versions of that newer Kernel, 5.10.19 here is the error i get with both

[Sebastian Roth]

@The-Dealman Why do you use a subdirectory for this kernel? While it does show ...ok at the end of that line I am fairly sure it’s unable to properly load it from your FOG server.

[The Dealman]

@sebastian-roth I didn’t want to overwrite the kernel that we are using by default for all computers. So i downloaded the newer Kernel, 5.10.19 and just specified that kernel in the host machine.

[Sebastian Roth]

@the-dealman said in OptiPlex 5480 All-in-One:

I didn’t want to overwrite the kernel that we are using by default for all computers. So i downloaded the newer Kernel, 5.10.19 and just specified that kernel in the host machine.

Not overwriting is wise. But where exactly did you put it? It should go to /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/ directly. Then just use the filename bzImage32-222021 in host settings.

[The Dealman]

@sebastian-roth You correct, I just used the file of that new kernel and it worked.