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  • N
    need2 Moderator
    last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 10:11 PM

    Sadly still the same result. I have tried putting some options in for it to fail out to a shell, but iPXE never goes to the shell. If for some reason iPXE could not see the kernel or initrd, would it just crash out to the previous menu?

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    • T
      Tom Elliott
      last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 10:12 PM

      can you provide your full advanced config?

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      • N
        need2 Moderator
        last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 10:24 PM

        menu
        item --gap – ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
        item SEATOOLS Seatools for DOS
        item TRK Trinity Rescue Kit
        item hostinfo Computer Details
        item shell ipxe shell
        item return return to previous menu
        choose --default return --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

        :SEATOOLS
        initrd ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/seatoolsdos223all.iso
        chain ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/memdisk iso raw ||
        goto MENU

        :TRK
        kernel ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/trk/kernel.trk ramdisk_size=99700 root=/dev/ram0 vga=788 trknfs=192.168.10.86:/trk ip=::::::dhcp splash=verbose pci=conf1 trkmenu
        initrd ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/trk/initrd.trk
        boot ||
        goto MENU

        :hostinfo
        echo This computer : ||
        echo MAC address…${net0/mac} ||
        echo IP address…${ip} ||
        echo Netmask…${netmask} ||
        echo Serial…${serial} ||
        echo Asset number…${asset} ||
        echo Manufacturer…${manufacturer} ||
        echo Product…${product} ||
        echo BIOS platform…${platform} ||
        echo ||
        echo press any key to return to Menu ||
        prompt
        goto MENU

        :shell
        shell ||
        goto MENU

        :return
        chain http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} ||
        prompt
        goto MENU

        autoboot[/CODE]

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        • T
          Tom Elliott
          last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 10:27 PM

          I think it’s the placement of your prompt in the :return stanzas. Also, which version of FOG are you running, SVN, 1.0.1, 1.1.0?

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          • N
            need2 Moderator
            last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 10:34 PM

            FOG 1.1.0 SVN 1800
            Debian 7.5

            And as per the prompt, I can believe I did something wrong, but what is the correct placement?

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            • T
              Tom Elliott
              last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 10:44 PM

              I’d think:
              [code]:return
              chain http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} || prompt && goto MENU
              [/code]

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              Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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              • J
                Junkhacker Developer
                last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 10:56 PM

                the prompt placement doesn’t look wrong to me
                the prompt command just waits to proceed to the next line until a key has been pressed.

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                • N
                  need2 Moderator
                  last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 10:57 PM

                  Alright, progress. I got it to go to shell and give me the following error when trying to access the kernel:

                  [url]http://ipxe.org/err/410c61[/url]

                  Which means its a 403, or forbidden. Apparently I didn’t get the permissions correct. I will have to give it another run. What permissions would you suggest for this?

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                  • J
                    Junkhacker Developer
                    last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 11:01 PM

                    [quote=“need2, post: 29941, member: 21891”]Sadly still the same result. I have tried putting some options in for it to fail out to a shell, but iPXE never goes to the shell. If for some reason iPXE could not see the kernel or initrd, would it just crash out to the previous menu?[/quote]

                    that depends on what you mean by “previous menu”
                    the
                    [CODE]<attempt a boot command> ||
                    goto MENU[/CODE]
                    is there specifically to make it go back to the top of the advanced menu

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                    • N
                      need2 Moderator
                      last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 11:11 PM

                      By previous menu, I meant the default FOG menu. It would step me back out of the Advanced Menu and back to the Default FOG Menu. I think that part is fixed now, and it looks like my problems are all permissions now. I’m still a bit linux-tarded, so that might take me a bit to get right.

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                      • T
                        Tom Elliott
                        last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 11:17 PM

                        Probably try:
                        [code]chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/fog/service/ipxe[/code]

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                        • J
                          Junkhacker Developer
                          last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 11:18 PM

                          a troubleshooting techniquie that i’ve used for ipxe menus is going line-by-line in this format
                          [CODE]:SEATOOLS
                          initrd ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/seatoolsdos223all.iso || prompt
                          chain ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/memdisk iso raw || prompt
                          boot || prompt
                          other command that might fail || prompt
                          goto MENU[/CODE]

                          this will prompt you to hit a key on any line that it fails

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                          • J
                            Junkhacker Developer
                            last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 11:20 PM

                            i mention this, because that would have shown you why it was failing to the previous menu
                            one of your lines was failing, and crashing to previous menu, due to a failure to execute a line, because of a permissions problem

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                            • N
                              need2 Moderator
                              last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 11:27 PM

                              I needed to do:

                              [CODE]chmod -R 755 /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/trk[/CODE]

                              I’m getting an access issue now within the TRK kernel. That is probable an issue with my NFS share… either I didn’t mount it right or there are some other places that permissions reside for NFS shares. Doing some digging of my own, but I always appreciate freebies.

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                              • T
                                Tom Elliott
                                last edited by Jun 12, 2014, 2:54 AM

                                [S]Are you sure it’s not just a ramdisk size limitation? Right now it’s set to 127MB, maybe up the value if you have spare ram and all have the same amount?[/S]

                                Nevermind, I’m an idiot…

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                                • N
                                  need2 Moderator
                                  last edited by Jun 13, 2014, 9:07 PM

                                  Just touching base on this one. I continued to have difficulties with the NFS share, so I just cheated and used the Windows Server NFS share I used way back when I was using a hijacked WDS server for my PXE server. Its working like that, but I would like to be able to stop relying on that server before it goes end-of-life. So any suggestions on what permissions and such I should have on the NFS share for the TRK boot folder would be appreciated.

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                                  • T
                                    Tom Elliott
                                    last edited by Jun 13, 2014, 9:47 PM

                                    is /trk (or the location referring to it) on the exports file? Just a thought.

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                                    • W
                                      Wolfbane8653 Developer
                                      last edited by Jun 14, 2014, 12:32 AM

                                      Is the NFS share on a Windows server or your fog server?

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                                      • N
                                        need2 Moderator
                                        last edited by Jun 14, 2014, 9:23 PM

                                        The NFS that works is on a Windows server, and the one I haven’t gotten working yet is on the FOG server. And I do have it in the exports file, but come to think of it I should take another look at the settings it has.

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