Dell Latitude 3550 Unable to PXe

[MonsterKaos]

Hi,
I have a fog server that is version 1.5.9 and it’s been great thus far for deploying images in our environment. I’m using a desktop as an Ubuntu server where I have configured the fog server statically. My ip address that I have assigned is 19.168.1.1 subnet 255.255.255.0 and gateway 19.68.1.1. Our fog server is not on our network. A little about my environment, I have a 8 port switch one network cable from the pc to the switch as the uplink and the rest is for pc to be image.

Lately, we purchase dell latitude 3550, and when trying to boot to PXE, we are receiving an error. We get the following ip address, and NBP File downloaded successfully but there’s an error message

“No connection method succeeded.(http://ipxe.org/040ee186”. DHCP Failed hit “s” for ipxe shell: reboot in 10 seconds

Can someone explain what is causing this error and how to potentially resolve.

[george1421]

@MonsterKaos There are 3 issues (well really 4 issues) that is probably impacting your deployment.

1. You have really new hardware, but you are running an old version of FOG.
2. Your version of iPXE (the boot loader that provides the FOG Menu is old (this is probably causing the no connection methods.
3. Your version of the FOS Linux kernel (you haven’t got this far yet) is probably too old.
4. You are missing some of the enhancements to the FOS Linux OS that interface with NVMe drives. Just be aware if you have issues deploying to nvme drives you should probably upgrade to FOG version 1.5.10 and then upgrade to the branch version of 1.5.10. This is not a mandatory upgrade unless you have issues deploying your image.

For issues 2, I have instructions on how to compile the latest version of iPXE here: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/15826/updating-compiling-the-latest-version-of-ipxe Your fog server will need to have internet access to get the latest source code for iPXE. This should address the no configuration methods.

For issue 3, in the fog ui go to fog configuration-> kernel update. Download the latest kernel 6.x series to get support for the newest hardware.

Lets see where that works for you with deploying images.

[MonsterKaos]

@george1421
I resolved the issue by testing 1.5.10 on a laptop after trial and error I am able to have the same setup as our desktop environment. I will most likely upgrade our desktop server to 1.5.10 and recapture a new golden image.