PXE issues
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Hello all,
I’ve been having some PXE issues at work and tried what I could, but things are not working out correctly. Here’s what going on and I searched throughout the internet and can’t get it.
The FOG version I have is 1.5.10.1754, kernel 6.12.35 for both 32 and 64 bit.
We have some HP desktop computers that have the generic network card (11) 1219-LM.
A model that’s giving issues for example is a HP mini ProDesk 400 G6. Not that it matters, but it has an i5 processor.I finally talked some sense to our IT admin to use FOG instead of MDT (snail). Anyway,
he has the WDS server disabled. We have a Windows Server 2022 that has DHCP server enabled.When I boot the mini via PXE, it flashes back to the boot menu like it doesn’t see FOG.
If you go to the BIOS and select F6 (some PXE test mode I think), it wants to PXE from the disabled WDS server and shows the boot file it wants to boot from instead of FOG. It happens to an older HP ProDesk 400 G4 with the same 1219-lm network adapter. It shows its Ip address. As a test, I asked him to re enable the WDS server yesterday and it pxe with no issues.If you put a HP Mini that’s an i7 (I believe a HP Pro Mini 400 G9) that has the same 1219-LM network adapter, it sees FOG and it’s ready for registration.
I double checked and triple checked DHCP is setup correctly on that vlan, ex; correct fog server name and file is ipxe.efi, even created the policy for the pxe arch to 0007 and 0009.
I tried downgrading to different kernels, but didn’t fix neither.
I’m at a loss on what else to try because WDS is very slow and I don’t want to keep using it to slow us down as we have MDT with it deploying Windows 10 and having to upgrade to Windows 11 with a PowerShell script. I was thinking about reinstalling FOG, but not sure if that would help.
Again, thanks for your guys support for all theses years.