Deploy OK, but system won't boot (stays looping in Fog menu)

[Baite]

[quote=“Gilou, post: 28631, member: 3221”]Does it work when you reboot and force it to boot on the hard drive from the bios/boot menu?

I have a lot of new Dell machines that won’t boot off the disk if they started using PXE, and PXE tells them to use the disk… There’s some doc about it, but it’s annoying as hell :)[/quote]
No… if I force boot from HDD in BIOS, it also won’t boot… keeps returning to BIOS

[Baite]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 28629, member: 7271”]My guess, the images are set to UEFI boot but trying to go through pure legacy modes?[/quote]
What do you mean by “are set to UEFI boot”? I uploaded the image from a PC with legacy mode enabled.

[Baite]

[quote=“TheKoR, post: 28634, member: 24285”]Try to deploy in sata mode : IRRT, and then reboot in AHCI for win7 and Compatible for XP[/quote]
What do you mean with SATA mode? You mean I should create the image withouth AHCI enabled and then after uploading it, I may enable AHCI again? I am trying to deploy Windows 7 Enterprise images (x64)

[TheKoR]

AHCI -> Create
IRRT -> Deploy
AHCI -> Reboot

I have the problem with e6400 with old bios version

[Tom Elliott]

[quote=“Baite, post: 28642, member: 24308”]What do you mean by “are set to UEFI boot”? I uploaded the image from a PC with legacy mode enabled.[/quote]

Good, that’s how you’re supposed to do it, but the system that’s trying to boot ALSO needs to be in legacy mode.

[Baite]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 28647, member: 7271”]Good, that’s how you’re supposed to do it, but the system that’s trying to boot ALSO needs to be in legacy mode.[/quote]
It also is in Legacy mode…
Just deployed new image now, and still not working.

[Baite]

[quote=“TheKoR, post: 28645, member: 24285”]AHCI -> Create
IRRT -> Deploy
AHCI -> Reboot

I have the problem with e6400 with old bios version[/quote]
Well, my system was AHCI when I created the image…
What do you mean with IRRT? In my BIOS I only have IDE/AHCI/Disabled modes in SATA mode selection.

[Baite]

[quote=“Gilou, post: 28631, member: 3221”]Does it work when you reboot and force it to boot on the hard drive from the bios/boot menu?

I have a lot of new Dell machines that won’t boot off the disk if they started using PXE, and PXE tells them to use the disk… There’s some doc about it, but it’s annoying as hell :)[/quote]
But if I deploy the images manually using other software (Acronis TrueImage) with PXE active, they boot nicely.

[Baite]

[quote=“Baite, post: 28657, member: 24308”]But if I deploy the images manually using other software (Acronis TrueImage) with PXE active, they boot nicely.[/quote]
UPDATE: If I deploy the images manually with Acronis TrueImage, I get them to BOOT but ONLY forcing boot from HDD through BIOS. It does not wboot if going through PXE.

Any suggestion?

[Tom Elliott]

Try upgrading the BIOS and see if that helps out.

[Baite]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 28673, member: 7271”]Try upgrading the BIOS and see if that helps out.[/quote]
Thank you for all your help so far, Tom.
BIOS is already latest version… that was one of the first things I checked.

I had to change the Exit type in FOG Configuration -> PXE Menu -> Boot Exit Type back to Sanboot Style, because in Exit style no computer could boot with PXE active.

All of this leads me back to one thing: my images aren’t getting deployed properly, as I assumed.

Read something about MBR and GPT. Does Fog support GPT partitions? I read that if we were using an EFI BIOS, Windows automaticaly creates partitions in GPT mode… is this correct? Could this be the problem?

[Baite]

[quote=“Baite, post: 28665, member: 24308”]UPDATE: If I deploy the images manually with Acronis TrueImage, I get them to BOOT but ONLY forcing boot from HDD through BIOS. It does not wboot if going through PXE.

Any suggestion?[/quote]
This gets fixed by changing from Exit mode back to Sanboot mode.
So I assume the problem is another - related with deployment of images or the image itself (Fog not supporting something that exists in the image).
Image is from single disk, with severall partitions. Chose that type of image when creting it in Fog (single disk, multiple partition).
As I posted in other place, can it be related to GPT/MBR?

I’m creating a new image only with Windows 7 Enterprise x64 to test deployment and see if it works. I will post results soon.

[Baite]

Created simple image (just Windows 7 Enterprise)… no drivers, nothing else.
Uploaded image to Fog (image created with “Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable)”.
Then, on te same computer with exactly the same settings, deployed image and after Fog menu… nothing (keeps returning to Fog menu).
Booted with the same DVD media I used to install Windows, and when I press “Rapair computer”, it says this System Recovery Options version is not compatible with the Windows version your trying to repair (…)".
Really stuck here, and desperetly needing to have my new 35 machines working for teaching purposes…

Any help is really welcome. Thank you guys for being available…

[Baite]

Checked /image and all images are there (filetype d1.mbr and d1p1.img + d1p2.img + d1p3.img).
Permissions are 777

[Junkhacker]

if it’s a simple standard image of windows 7 enterprise, there should only be 2 partition img files

[Baite]

Well, it has drive C and D, so thats why it has 3. But that shouldn’t be a problem.My HDD are 1TB (all equal).My computers are i7 4770, in an Asus B85M-G motherboard,mwith 8GB RAM. I have latest BIOS (0908) and UEFI is disabled (legacy mode).After preparing the image (with fogprep and all), I shut down the computer. Then, make an image using Acronis TrueImage and then I upload the image.If I deploy it in Fog, I have the problem of after the Fog menu getting an bkank screen.If I use Acrojis to restore image from external HDD, then image is correctly deployed, name is changed by Fog, and the machine is added to my Active Directory.

[Baite]

So, I’m guessing it is something with the image itself… or not being correctly uploaded, or not being correctly deployed.One question… can I use a boot disk with some software that creates an image compatible with Fog 1.1.0, save it to an external HDD, and then manually placing it in the image folder?

[Baite]

I’m sorry for asking this again… but I would really appreciate if I could get someone’s help.
My images are being deployed, but them computer won’t boot.
How can I assure images are uploaded successfully and then deployed also successfully?

[Tom Elliott]

That’s why we keep asking if you partitions are in GPT format.

Start an upload-debug or download-debug task.

When you’re at the “command” prompt, type:
gdisk -l /dev/sda

What is the output?

[Baite]

I’ve checked and my images are NOT in gpt.