Host won't boot in PXE

Jordon Rapp · May 20, 2014, 8:50 PM

I’m new to FOG, just installed it today. Correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that I need to boot the computer I wish to use as a host in PXE, register it for client use, then log in to my server and create an image and a host, and assign that image to the host, then log in to my server on another computer and begin to upload the image. I have a couple problems.

The computer I am using as a test host will not boot into PXE. I have enabled 66 and 67 on the DHCP server, FOG is not running as a DHCP server, I have upgraded the BIOS, and I have PXE set as the first boot option. When I try booting, it returns nothing for TFTP and hangs on DHCP for a while. It then exits PXE and boots Windows.
When attempting to upload my image, it hangs in queue and goes nowhere, but I think that’s due to number 1.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

Junkhacker · May 20, 2014, 8:55 PM

Blatantly copied from Tom’s signature:

Basics: Please provide:
FOG Version (e.g. FOG 0.32, FOG 0.33, FOG 0.01)
OS Version (e.g. CentOS 6.5, Ubuntu 12.04, Redhat 6.5)

Have you checked your apache error logs? Can you provide information from these logs?
Debian based Location (normally)
/var/log/apache2/error.log
Redhat based Location (normally)
/var/log/httpd/error_log

Have you searched the forums for your issue yet?
Have you checked the wiki yet?
Kernel Issues: [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ[/url]

Jordon Rapp · May 21, 2014, 1:12 PM

[quote=“Junkhacker, post: 27631, member: 21583”]Blatantly copied from Tom’s signature:

Basics: Please provide:
FOG Version (e.g. FOG 0.32, FOG 0.33, FOG 0.01)
OS Version (e.g. CentOS 6.5, Ubuntu 12.04, Redhat 6.5)

Have you checked your apache error logs? Can you provide information from these logs?
Debian based Location (normally)
/var/log/apache2/error.log
Redhat based Location (normally)
/var/log/httpd/error_log

Have you searched the forums for your issue yet?
Have you checked the wiki yet?
Kernel Issues: [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ[/url][/quote]

FOG Version: 1.01
OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
[URL=‘http://pastebin.com/Jzgf5vTd’]Here[/URL] is my Apache log. I think the important thing here is about half way down (line 16):
"
[LIST=1]
[][COLOR=#000000]ls: cannot access /images/test: No such file or directory[/COLOR]
[][COLOR=#000000]ls: cannot access /images/testestest: No such file or directory[/COLOR]
[][COLOR=#000000]ls: cannot access /images/testimg: No such file or directory[/COLOR]
[][COLOR=#000000]ls: cannot access /images/testimg2: No such file or directory[/COLOR]
[][COLOR=#000000]ls: cannot access /images/test: No such file or directory[/COLOR]
[][COLOR=#000000]ls: cannot access /images/testestest: No such file or directory[/COLOR]
[][COLOR=#000000]ls: cannot access /images/testimg: No such file or directory[/COLOR]
[][COLOR=#000000]ls: cannot access /images/testimg2: No such file or directory[/COLOR]
[][COLOR=#000000]ls: cannot access /images/test: No such file or directory[/COLOR]
[][COLOR=#000000]ls: cannot access /images/testestest: No such file or directory[/COLOR]
[][COLOR=#000000]ls: cannot access /images/testimg: No such file or directory[/COLOR]
[][COLOR=#000000]ls: cannot access /images/testimg2: No such file or directory[/COLOR]
[/LIST]
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Jordon Rapp · May 21, 2014, 4:52 PM

I am getting an IP returned from DHCP, but not from TFTP. It will run DHCP for a while, then TFTP for a short period of time and returns PXE-M0F and then boots Windows. I ran the command
[CENTER]tftp 172.16.0.35 get unidonly.kpxe[/CENTER]
[LEFT]and it returns “Timeout occurred Connect request failed” I don’t know where to go now, short of re-installing FOG in hopes that I didn’t miss something.[/LEFT]

Junkhacker · May 21, 2014, 7:50 PM

is your tftp service running on the server?

Jordon Rapp · May 22, 2014, 1:19 PM

I just updated the password on the management front end, and I’ll see where that takes me. It seems every computer I try to boot into I get a different PXE error…

Tom Elliott · May 23, 2014, 10:35 AM

On the fog server, try running the command:
[code]sudo service tftpd-hpa restart[/code]
Have you disabled the firewall on your fog server:
[code]sudo ufw stop
sudo ufw disable[/code]

Bronzli · May 26, 2014, 1:13 PM

Hello,
I’ve just upgrade my fog server to 1.0.1 and have problème to boot the host under pxe!!!
few informations :
ubuntu 12.04 ; fog 1.0.1
service tftpd-hpa running
my fog config.php :
define( “UDPSENDERPATH”, “/usr/local/sbin/udp-sender” );
define( “MULTICASTLOGPATH”, “/opt/fog/log/multicast.log” );
define( “MULTICASTDEVICEOUTPUT”, “/dev/tty2” );
define( “MULTICASTSLEEPTIME”, 10 );
define( “MULTICASTINTERFACE”, “eth2” );
define( “UDPSENDER_MAXWAIT”, null );
define( “LOGMAXSIZE”, “1000000” );

define( “REPLICATORLOGPATH”, “/opt/fog/log/fogreplicator.log” );
define( “REPLICATORDEVICEOUTPUT”, “/dev/tty3” );
define( “REPLICATORSLEEPTIME”, 600 );
define( “REPLICATORIFCONFIG”, “/sbin/ifconfig” );

define( “SCHEDULERLOGPATH”, “/opt/fog/log/fogscheduler.log” );
define( “SCHEDULERDEVICEOUTPUT”, “/dev/tty4” );
define( “SCHEDULERSLEEPTIME”, 60 );

define(‘TFTP_HOST’, “172.16.192.5”);
define(‘TFTP_FTP_USERNAME’, “fog”);
define(‘TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD’, “password”);
define(‘TFTP_PXE_KERNEL_DIR’, ‘/var/www/fog/service/ipxe/’);
define(‘PXE_KERNEL’, ‘bzImage’);
define(‘PXE_KERNEL_RAMDISK’,127000);
define(‘USE_SLOPPY_NAME_LOOKUPS’,true);
define(‘MEMTEST_KERNEL’, ‘memtest.bin’);
define(‘PXE_IMAGE’, ‘init.xz’);
define(‘PXE_IMAGE_DNSADDRESS’, “”);
define(‘STORAGE_HOST’, “172.16.192.5”);
define(‘STORAGE_FTP_USERNAME’, “fog”);
define(‘STORAGE_FTP_PASSWORD’, “password”);
define(‘STORAGE_DATADIR’, ‘/images/’);
define(‘STORAGE_DATADIR_UPLOAD’, ‘/images/dev/’);
define(‘STORAGE_BANDWIDTHPATH’, ‘/fog/status/bandwidth.php’);
define(‘UPLOADRESIZEPCT’,5);
define(‘WEB_HOST’, “172.16.192.5”);
define(‘WOL_HOST’, “172.16.192.5”);
define(‘WOL_PATH’, ‘/fog/wol/wol.php’);
define(‘WOL_INTERFACE’, “eth2”);
define(‘SNAPINDIR’, “/opt/fog/snapins/”);
define(‘QUEUESIZE’, ‘10’);
define(‘CHECKIN_TIMEOUT’,600);
define(‘USER_MINPASSLENGTH’,4);
define(‘USER_VALIDPASSCHARS’, ‘1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWZXYabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_()^!#-’);
define(‘NFS_ETH_MONITOR’, “eth2”);
define(‘UDPCAST_INTERFACE’, “eth2”);
define(‘UDPCAST_STARTINGPORT’, 63100 );
define(‘FOG_MULTICAST_MAX_SESSIONS’,64);
define(‘FOG_JPGRAPH_VERSION’, ‘2.3’);
define(‘FOG_REPORT_DIR’, ‘./reports/’);
define(‘FOG_UPLOADIGNOREPAGEHIBER’,true);
define(‘FOG_DONATE_MINING’, “0”);
?>
My tftpd-hpa file :

/etc/default/tftpd-hpa

FOG Modified version

TFTP_USERNAME=“fog”
TFTP_DIRECTORY=“/tftpboot”
TFTP_ADDRESS=“172.16.192.5:69”
TFTP_OPTIONS=“-s”

My tftpboot directory:
~fog:/tftpboot$ ls -la
total 860
drwxr-xr-x 3 fog root 4096 mai 26 15:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 mai 26 15:54 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 840 mai 26 15:54 boot.txt
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 167 mai 26 15:54 default.ipxe
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 391231 mai 26 15:54 ipxe.krn
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 25340 mai 26 15:54 memdisk
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 16794 mai 26 15:54 pxelinux.0.old
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 165088 mai 26 15:54 snponly.efi
drwxr-xr-x 2 fog root 4096 mai 26 15:54 tftpboot
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 95522 mai 26 15:54 undionly.kpxe
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 147728 mai 26 15:54 vesamenu.c32

And an extract of my dhcpd3.conf: (ubuntu server) :
next-server 172.16.192.5;
filename “undionly.kpxe”;

The message error :
PXE-T01 : File not Found
PXE-E3B : TFTP error - File Not Found

Thank you for your help…

Tom Elliott · May 26, 2014, 4:56 PM

[quote=“Bronzli, post: 28203, member: 24373”]Hello,
I’ve just upgrade my fog server to 1.0.1 and have problème to boot the host under pxe!!!
few informations :
ubuntu 12.04 ; fog 1.0.1
service tftpd-hpa running
my fog config.php :
define( “UDPSENDERPATH”, “/usr/local/sbin/udp-sender” );
define( “MULTICASTLOGPATH”, “/opt/fog/log/multicast.log” );
define( “MULTICASTDEVICEOUTPUT”, “/dev/tty2” );
define( “MULTICASTSLEEPTIME”, 10 );
define( “MULTICASTINTERFACE”, “eth2” );
define( “UDPSENDER_MAXWAIT”, null );
define( “LOGMAXSIZE”, “1000000” );

define( “REPLICATORLOGPATH”, “/opt/fog/log/fogreplicator.log” );
define( “REPLICATORDEVICEOUTPUT”, “/dev/tty3” );
define( “REPLICATORSLEEPTIME”, 600 );
define( “REPLICATORIFCONFIG”, “/sbin/ifconfig” );

define( “SCHEDULERLOGPATH”, “/opt/fog/log/fogscheduler.log” );
define( “SCHEDULERDEVICEOUTPUT”, “/dev/tty4” );
define( “SCHEDULERSLEEPTIME”, 60 );

define(‘TFTP_HOST’, “172.16.192.5”);
define(‘TFTP_FTP_USERNAME’, “fog”);
define(‘TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD’, “password”);
define(‘TFTP_PXE_KERNEL_DIR’, ‘/var/www/fog/service/ipxe/’);
define(‘PXE_KERNEL’, ‘bzImage’);
define(‘PXE_KERNEL_RAMDISK’,127000);
define(‘USE_SLOPPY_NAME_LOOKUPS’,true);
define(‘MEMTEST_KERNEL’, ‘memtest.bin’);
define(‘PXE_IMAGE’, ‘init.xz’);
define(‘PXE_IMAGE_DNSADDRESS’, “”);
define(‘STORAGE_HOST’, “172.16.192.5”);
define(‘STORAGE_FTP_USERNAME’, “fog”);
define(‘STORAGE_FTP_PASSWORD’, “password”);
define(‘STORAGE_DATADIR’, ‘/images/’);
define(‘STORAGE_DATADIR_UPLOAD’, ‘/images/dev/’);
define(‘STORAGE_BANDWIDTHPATH’, ‘/fog/status/bandwidth.php’);
define(‘UPLOADRESIZEPCT’,5);
define(‘WEB_HOST’, “172.16.192.5”);
define(‘WOL_HOST’, “172.16.192.5”);
define(‘WOL_PATH’, ‘/fog/wol/wol.php’);
define(‘WOL_INTERFACE’, “eth2”);
define(‘SNAPINDIR’, “/opt/fog/snapins/”);
define(‘QUEUESIZE’, ‘10’);
define(‘CHECKIN_TIMEOUT’,600);
define(‘USER_MINPASSLENGTH’,4);
define(‘USER_VALIDPASSCHARS’, ‘1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWZXYabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_()^!#-’);
define(‘NFS_ETH_MONITOR’, “eth2”);
define(‘UDPCAST_INTERFACE’, “eth2”);
define(‘UDPCAST_STARTINGPORT’, 63100 );
define(‘FOG_MULTICAST_MAX_SESSIONS’,64);
define(‘FOG_JPGRAPH_VERSION’, ‘2.3’);
define(‘FOG_REPORT_DIR’, ‘./reports/’);
define(‘FOG_UPLOADIGNOREPAGEHIBER’,true);
define(‘FOG_DONATE_MINING’, “0”);
?>
My tftpd-hpa file :

/etc/default/tftpd-hpa

FOG Modified version

TFTP_USERNAME=“fog”
TFTP_DIRECTORY=“/tftpboot”
TFTP_ADDRESS=“172.16.192.5:69”
TFTP_OPTIONS=“-s”

My tftpboot directory:
~fog:/tftpboot$ ls -la
total 860
drwxr-xr-x 3 fog root 4096 mai 26 15:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 mai 26 15:54 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 840 mai 26 15:54 boot.txt
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 167 mai 26 15:54 default.ipxe
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 391231 mai 26 15:54 ipxe.krn
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 25340 mai 26 15:54 memdisk
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 16794 mai 26 15:54 pxelinux.0.old
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 165088 mai 26 15:54 snponly.efi
drwxr-xr-x 2 fog root 4096 mai 26 15:54 tftpboot
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 95522 mai 26 15:54 undionly.kpxe
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 147728 mai 26 15:54 vesamenu.c32

And an extract of my dhcpd3.conf: (ubuntu server) :
next-server 172.16.192.5;
filename “undionly.kpxe”;

The message error :
PXE-T01 : File not Found
PXE-E3B : TFTP error - File Not Found

Thank you for your help…[/quote]

Check that your tftp server isn’t being blocked by firewall:
[code]sudo ufw disable[/code]

mkstreet · Jun 19, 2014, 11:14 PM

[quote=“Bronzli, post: 28203, member: 24373”]Hello,
I’ve just upgrade my fog server to 1.0.1 and have problème to boot the host under pxe!!!
few informations :
ubuntu 12.04 ; fog 1.0.1
service tftpd-hpa running
my fog config.php :
…
[/quote]

I run Fog under the same version of Ubuntu as you and in the past I have had PXE boot issues. I don’t remember exactly what all the symptoms were, but over time I have come up with this two line script and I just run this every time, first thing, after I reboot the Fog server… since I started this practice…never had any problems again:

sudo this file

start isc-dhcp-server
restart tftpd-hpa

Host won't boot in PXE

/etc/default/tftpd-hpa

FOG Modified version

/etc/default/tftpd-hpa

FOG Modified version

sudo this file

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