Dell Latitude E7240 imaging problem

[Tom Elliott]

Can you try my all-net kernel?

[url]https://mastacontrola.com/fogboot/kernel/bzImage[/url] It’s based on core, has no modesetting, and should contain all possible network drivers built in.

[jjacobs]

Hi Tx,

Do i need to place this file in: /tftpboot/fog/kernel ?

Tx
Johan

[Tom Elliott]

Yes, you can create a backup of the original as well just to see if it works.

[jjacobs]

Hi Tom,

The imaging works now tx! but…The E7240 uses a SSD of 256 GB and it looks like I’m not able to image that using FOG 0.32…

[Tom Elliott]

I’m very sorry about that! I think it’s due to the 4k Advanced Format Drives though. Not so much the fact that it’s SSD.

[andyroo54]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 17767, member: 7271”]I’m very sorry about that! I think it’s due to the 4k Advanced Format Drives though. Not so much the fact that it’s SSD.[/quote]

Thanks Tom your bzimage worked for me too.

The 7420 I was setting up did have an SSD, however it was only 120GB, and it imaged just fine. I checked and the SSD is a 4K drive, so not sure why jjacobs didn’t work. This is the disk:

[url]http://www.liteonssd.com/msata-ssd/item/msata-ssd/m2m.html[/url]

[zavo]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 17757, member: 7271”]Can you try my all-net kernel?

[url]https://mastacontrola.com/fogboot/kernel/bzImage[/url] It’s based on core, has no modesetting, and should contain all possible network drivers built in.[/quote]

Tom, thank you very much for the kernel.
This kernel also works for a Dell Latitude E5540 with hybrid HDD.

[Tom Elliott]

Glad I could be of help.

[Harfo]

Hi Tom,

I’m getting the same NIC error on a Dell Latitude E5440 so I tried your kernel from [URL=‘https://mastacontrola.com/fogboot/kernel/bzImage’][I][SIZE=12px]https://mastacontrola.com/fogboot/kernel/bzImage[/SIZE][/I][/URL] but unfortunately it just causes a kernel panic before booting fully. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Eoin

[Tom Elliott]

Replace the bzImage part of the link with bzImage32, then copy that file as bzImage on your fog server.

[Harfo]

It’s in 640x480 but that has worked a treat Tom, thank you very much! Is this because there is a 64bit driver in there somewhere that is incompatible? Also, how often do you release your own new kernels?

Cheers,
Eoin.

[Tom Elliott]

No, it’s because in 0.33 we’ve moved to a pure 64 bit system. The bzImage file on my site is 64 bit, while your init.gz/xz file is 32 bit only.

[Harfo]

So if I moved to 0.33 I could use that first bzImage?

Thanks,
Eoin.

[Tom Elliott]

Yes, unless you wanted to use 32 bit stuff, in which case you would use the init_32.xz with the bzImage32.

[Harfo]

Great, thanks very much for all the help - really appreciate it as I am at a customer site today and on a deadline!

[Marcus Hall]

Tom, thanks very much for the updated kernel. I’m a new user (about 2 months) and we are now receiving shipments of Dell E7240’s so this was very timely help. Awesome! I downloaded fog 0.33b and will be testing that soon. I’d been looking at fog for a long time and finally got approval when updating Ghost’s WinPE image for new nics became too troublesome. Great work to all involved in the project. Thanks again!

[BillyBob]

Tom,
We’re running into this same issue with some Latitude E7240 we have. I went to download your all net kernel from the link above and am getting a 403 Forbidden error. Is there a new location to download the kernel? or can someone that’s using it hook me up with a copy?

Thanks for the Help!

[Albatros]

You can download the kernel from here too
[URL=‘http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/files/Kernels/’]sourceforge-link[/URL]