Compatibility with Imaging Dell Vostro 3020s?
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Hello,
I am a K12 tech working for a rural district and am looking for some input. Our director is looking to buy a new fleet of Dell Vostro 3020s for our next staff refresh and I was wondering if anybody has had any luck with getting these to work with FOG’s imaging solution (whether by updating to the latest kernel or whatnot). It uses an NVMe M.2 and doesn’t appear to be using a fake RAID. Below is a link to the specifications we’re looking at for it. I appreciate any input on this model.
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@iljared98 While I don’t use this model, go into the firmware and see if there is a raid-on mode. Change it back to ahci mode then it should image with fog. There are other things to try but lets start there.
Also you didn’t mention the version of FOG you are using, because iPXE might need to be updated to support new hardware.
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@george1421
I don’t have a physical model of this Dell Vostro on-hand to check the firmware. We’re looking to buy new staff desktops and are wanting to ensure they’re compatible with our imaging solution. We’re running on FOG version 1.5.10, with our kernel being on version 5.15.93. Server host is running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. -
@iljared98 Without having the hardware in hand I can’t say it will boot or not.
But in general areas where there might be a problem,
- firmware settings that cause it to not pxe boot right
- New hardware that is not supported by iPXE yet (we can work through the ipxe update process to get the latest version)
- The FOS Linux kernel won’t boot, but we can debug the kernel to find out why.