Dell Optiplex 7010
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Managed to get these machines deploying with the latest kernel (Thank you).
(UEFI, Windows 11)The strange thing about these machines are two fold.
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When I 1st register the device in in fog from the boot menu, at the end when asked it you want to FOG now, you say YES but it seems to pop out of the process and continue to load the local HDD with now a broken OS due to changes in the RAID settings. If we reboot and then boot from PXE, it starts and deploys the image
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We have a process after the deployment that auto signs in a domain user to finish some tasks and then we shutdown. On these machines the auto login doesn’t work until we reboot it one more time. This is not a new process, been doing it for 7+ Years and other new machines work as normal.
One note was when we reboot it then installs a few GPO applications, this is normal but normally after it’s logged in once bla bla. When we reboot to start this process we don’t see the BIOS and it’s quick.
This leads me to think that FastBoot in the BIOS might be the issue. I’m putting this up in case anyone else has any ideas. I can’t test until Monday, i will update but any ideas welcome.
Thanks, thanks, thanks.
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@ITCC I’m trying to remember back, but I think the 7010 or the X010 series was the first to support pxe booting in uefi mode. If this computer was in uefi mode it would the iPXE boot loader would not get past initializing devices. For a successful pxe boot you need to make sure that the disk mode is ahci mode (not raid-on), and secure boot is disabled.
Your #2 issue is more of a windows thing than a fog thing.
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you’re right, you can’t use the RAID. this is already off.
I can image the machines, The point is that is doesn’t flow. it needs another reboot so just a little harder to leave them to it. (got quite a few to do
)the 2nd is indeed windows but i was wondering if the FOG agent reboot isn’t a full reboot of some kind (what’s the command used by agent) shutdown -r ??
it’s last task would have been joining the domain.It feels like a FastBoot thing the more i think about it, just didn’t get time to test. If FOG inventory is “fastbooting” it might be skipping where it then boot back into the PXE to continue the deployment
And windows might apply the auto login details from the unattend.xml but not get a full reboot, more like waking from a hibernate (caused by they way FOG agent reboots the system after joining the domain)
