could not boot: exec format error

[Sebastian Roth]

@rude26 Do you have to use a proxy server in your network?

[rude26]

@sebastian-roth no we are not using a proxy server.

[george1421]

@rude26 Does your fog server have direct access to the internet? I would think yes if you got this far. But this error is the root of why its not booting.

Can you test to ping fogproject.org ? Maybe something is up with name resolution.

[rude26]

@george1421 yes it does have direct access, yes I can ping fogproject.org
checked the firewall for any potential blocks. but i did not see anything

[Sebastian Roth]

@rude26 Then try a manual download to find out what’s going on. On your FOG server run the following command and post output here:

curl -kOL https://github.com/FOGProject/fos/releases/latest/download/bzImage

[george1421]

@sebastian-roth said in could not boot: exec format error:

https://github.com/FOGProject/fos/releases/latest/download/bzImage

I just reversed engineering this answer…

[rude26]

@sebastian-roth ok ran that and this is what i got.
is my network denying to connection?

[george1421]

@rude26 For reference when I run the command from my fog server.

Also when I paste the url into my browser I get a file download prompt. I just wanted to test to see if something was broken with the github site.

[rude26]

@george1421
when i go to the url with my browser on my windows machine it did download bzimage
when i do it from the fog server it does not download

can i just drop this file in the correct place?

[george1421]

@rude26 There are actually a series of files that gets downloaded here.

Are you sure your company isn’t using a transparent proxy for internet filtering? HTTP inspect might cause https to fail. See if you can pull the file with http.

[Sebastian Roth]

@rude26 said in could not boot: exec format error:

can i just drop this file in the correct place?

Yes for the binaries itself but no for the checksums. The script is made to always re-download the checksums to make sure it would pull a newer kernel/init file even if an older one sits there in the tmp folder. I know this is not great for the situation you are in right now.

Are you ok with editing shell scripts? That way we could help you get around this. https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/blob/dev-branch/lib/common/functions.sh#L2422

The other option I can suggest is downloading kernel/init binaries and checksums plus the fog-client binaries and host those on a local mirror for the moment. Just put in “github.com” to your /etc/hosts.

[rude26]

@sebastian-roth so after the last post and seeing it might be my network blocking me or a proxy set up, i decided to do it a nasty way lol please dont hate me. and also i came into a place with alot of missing staff so its been a whole discovery session for me.

I tethered my cell to the machine( on a test machine in the office) for network
was able to download all the files
it assigned it different IP
went through install
and re ran install once hooked back in to the internal network changed IP and DHCP to what it should be
i got success!!! i was able to check in my device with the fog server!!!
you guys are awesome thanks for the help.

now that its checked in and im trying to capture and image im getting this error looking through the forum to see if i can find the answer

[george1421]

@rude26 This is a YOU problem. What happened is that you used “shutdown” to power off the windows computer. This does not close all of the open windows files because fast startup is turned on.

There are a few ways to shut it down in preparation for cloning.

1. Let sysprep do it.
2. Use the command prompt and use shutdown -s -t 0
3. Turn off fast startup.

For more information google windows dirty bit

Well done on the internet bypass to get FOG installed.

[Sebastian Roth]

@rude26 Well done!

May I ask you to use separate topics for each issue you want to talk about. No trouble on the unclean NTFS stuff here. We just try to keep things sorted in the forums so others find information and help more easily.

[rude26]

@george1421 Thanks so much for the help to you and @Sebastian-Roth
I was able to successfully capture and image and deploy it yesterday!

[rude26]

@sebastian-roth Will do! sorry about that.

Thanks again.