Windows 8 Deployment Problem

[tjd230]

Hey guys,
I have been going nuts with my co-worker over this. Long story short, we are trying to image a brand new Dell Inspiron 15R with Windows 8.1 on it. It comes with 5 partitions from Dell.

I finally found a kernel that allowed me to upload an image with the partitions being recognized as NTFS. That kernel is 3.14.0.TomElliott. I found it on the Fog SourceForge site I believe.

Before, Fog was reading them all as raw. So, I got the image uploaded fine this morning. Note: we do not sysprep and never have with our Win 7 machines either. Now, I am trying to deploy to the same model machine, exact same specs, (we have 40 of them). It gets through the first 2 partitions, the System Reserved and the ESP, and then says task completed, rebooting. It never gets to the rest of the partitions. I have also made sure to select the new kernel for the deployment. I am completely stumped on this. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

[Tom Elliott]

What version of fog?

[tjd230]

Fog 0.32 Ubuntu 10.04

[BPSTravis]

.32 does not officially support windows 8.

IF you can, set up a 33b server, it’s stable and nearing official release. It will handle windows 8 without problem.

If you feel daring here are the upgrade instructions but i STRONGLY recommend a fresh install of 33b.
[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Upgrade_to_0.33[/url]

[tjd230]

I actually just did upgrade yesterday, but now, the machine will not recognize a task from the server. It boots to pxe but it won’t load into the deployment environment. It bypasses completely so quickly that I can’t see what is going on. It just goes right to the pxe menu.

[Tom Elliott]

Please read the wiki!

[BPSTravis]

From the wiki link I gave you about upgrading:

[QUOTE]
[SIZE=6][B]Clean out the old[/B][/SIZE]

[B]AS THERE ARE SO MANY CHANGES YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE ONE MINOR DATABASE CHANGE TO MAKE THINGS WORK[/B]
[LIST=1]
[]Login to your mysql system
[LIST]
[]MySQL with a password set:
[][CODE]mysql -u root -p’<YOURPASSWORDHERE>’ fog[/CODE]
[]MySQL without a password:
[][CODE]mysql -u root fog[/CODE]
[/LIST]
[]Run the following query once you see the mysql> prompt:
[LIST]
[][B]THIS REMOVES ALL TASKS FROM THE TASKS TABLE ESSENTIALLY MAKING THE TASKS AS IF THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN PERFORMED. IMAGING LOG IS UNTOUCHED SO IF YOU NEED RECORDS OF THE ACTUAL TASKS MAKE A BACKUP FIRST[/B]
[][CODE]truncate table tasks;[/CODE]
[/LIST]
[]Sign into the FOG GUI
[LIST]
[]Go to the link you normally go to and you should notice the upgrade/install database screen.
[]Click the submit button and it should move on to say, Click here to login, once complete.
[]Sign in with your normal user and password.
[/LIST]
[]Make necessary adjustments.
[LIST]
[]As the hostOS column has been moved to the images table rather than the hosts table, you need to specify the Operating system of the images currently on your system.
[]To do so, login to the FOG GUI and navigate to the Image Management Page. Click on each of your images and set the OSID accordingly.
[/LIST]
[]You will need adjust tftp values.
[LIST]
[]Login to the FOG GUI and navigate to FOG Configuration Page.
[]Click the FOG Settings link on the left hand side of the screen.
[]Select the TFTP Server heading on this page.
[]Change values accoringly:
[/LIST]
[/LIST]
[/QUOTE]

[tjd230]

Thanks Tom. And Travis. I will see what I can come up with. I will report back with what I get.

[tjd230]

Alright well I opted for a fresh install. I am now running 13.04, with Fog 0.33b (rc1). Everything seems to be up and running fine. I followed the wiki and updated the settings after install. Now I get a TFTP error File not Found.

[Wolfbane8653]

did you change your option 66 & 67 on your DHCP server?

…and disable your fire wall on the Ubuntu machine?

[tjd230]

We are running a RHEL DHCP server.
Also, just disabled firewall, and still nothing.

[tjd230]

Does this apply?[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/server-pxe-diferent-server-dhcp.10361/#post-26043[/url]

[Junkhacker]

no, this does [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/server-pxe-diferent-server-dhcp.10361/#post-25997[/url]

[tjd230]

Well I switched out pxelinux.0 with undionly.kpxe in the dhcp server and it worked!

[Wolfbane8653]

[quote=“Wolfbane8653, post: 26082, member: 3362”]did you change your option 66 & 67 on your DHCP server?

…and disable your fire wall on the Ubuntu machine?[/quote]

[quote=“tjd230, post: 26086, member: 23826”]Well I switched out pxelinux.0 with undionly.kpxe in the dhcp server and it worked![/quote]

Glad to hear you’re up running!

[tjd230]

Well almost, now I can get the client to upload, but it is reading the partitions as Raw. I have the image set to Multiple Partition Image Single Disk Not Resizeable. Also I am using the 3.14.0.TomElliott 64 bit kernel. I also tried chaning the image manager to PartImage and PartClone and they both read the partitions as Raw.

[Wolfbane8653]

Now that’s just odd…

Only suggestion I can make is to update to Tom’s 3.14.1 Kernels --> [SIZE=12px]Kernel Issues: [/SIZE][URL=‘http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ’][SIZE=12px]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ[/SIZE][/URL]

[tjd230]

Wel that made it worse. I downloaded Tom’s latest kernel and now I get:
[FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#000000]ipxe Error: Exec format error [/COLOR][/FONT][B][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#000000]Error code 2e0080)[/COLOR][/FONT][/B]

Tom, do you have a list of previous revisions of the kernel? Also, when I go to kernel updates in my server, nothing populates on the list, neither Published Kernels, nor Unofficial Kernels. Any reason for this?

[BPSTravis]

If those pages don’t work then FOG is not seeing an external connection OR something is blocking the traffic to get to Tom’s site.

Does the login page display the FOG site info below the login box?:
[CODE]Estimated FOG sites: 4354

Latest Version: 0.32[/CODE]

[tjd230]

Hmm, no. It just sits there loading but never displays the info.