bzImage and Init take ridiculously long to load during tasks

[Yeet]

I am setting up a FOG server, and for some reason it takes a long time to load bzImage and Init.xz during tasks.

For example: I selected to run a full host registration & inventory, and before I can even enter the hostname it’ll say “bzImage… __%”. It will slowly count up to 100, and then it’ll say the same for Init, but it takes even longer. It does it during just about any task I run

I never had this issue on the other FOG server I’ve been using, so I’m not quite sure what is happening here.

Any help is appreciated

[Sebastian Roth]

@Yeet This points to a network issue when iPXE is loading files. Can happen with certain hardware or when you have a general issue in your network.

I suggest you test different devices for PXE booting into a task (no matter be it registration, inventory or deploy). Use desktop machines and laptops from different brands to see if they all load bzImage/init.xz slowly.

[Yeet]

@sebastian-roth I’ll give that a shot. Do you think changing bootfiles will resolve this issue on certain models?

[Yeet]

@sebastian-roth I tested on another machine, and it ran into the same issue with bzImage and init.xz loading slowly. I confirmed I don’t have this issue on my other FOG server using this same machine & bootfile that I’m testing with. What would you reccomend doing next? I’ve updated to the most recent kernel & have the most recent init files that I could find.

[Sebastian Roth]

@yeet said in bzImage and Init take ridiculously long to load during tasks:

I’ll give that a shot. Do you think changing bootfiles will resolve this issue on certain models?

Depends on the hardware really. There is no general answer to this question. Just give it a try.

[Sebastian Roth]

@yeet said in bzImage and Init take ridiculously long to load during tasks:

I confirmed I don’t have this issue on my other FOG server using this same machine & bootfile that I’m testing with.

Which version of FOG is the other server running. Just to be absolutely sure you could copy that boot file (in /tftpboot/ dir on your server) from the old FOG to the new one (rename instead of overwrite so you have a copy to go back to) and see if that makes a difference. Rule out things one by one.

How much different is the network structure of the new and old one?

[Yeet]

@sebastian-roth Thanks to your suggestions I took a deeper look at the host server I was provided for this project, and there was a lot of driver packages missing. Once I installed those drivers, everything loads at a good speed now.

In the end it was my mistake not looking over the host server my colleague prepared for me, but I learned a lot more about FOG in the process so it wasn’t all time wasted.

I appreciate the help though, sorry if I confused you there