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    • JunkhackerJ
      Junkhacker Developer
      last edited by

      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

        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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        • JunkhackerJ
          Junkhacker Developer
          last edited by

          [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

            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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            • Tom ElliottT
              Tom Elliott
              last edited by

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

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              • JunkhackerJ
                Junkhacker Developer
                last edited by

                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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                • JunkhackerJ
                  Junkhacker Developer
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                  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

                    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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                    • Tom ElliottT
                      Tom Elliott
                      last edited by

                      [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

                        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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                        • Tom ElliottT
                          Tom Elliott
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                          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

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

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                            • N
                              need2 Moderator
                              last edited by

                              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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