IPXE : Could not start download: Operation not supported

[Sivasubramaniam.T]

Hi,

I am using Fog Version: 1.2.0 Ubuntu: 12.04 LTS (Fresh Install )

I am getting the the below error during pxe boot.

[ iPXE initialising devices…ok
Configuring (net0 xxx)… ok
[B]Could not start download: Operation not supported ([url]http://ipxe.org/3c092003[/url])[/B]
[B]Selected boot device failed. Press any key to reboot the system. ][/B]

But sometimes I can Register the host, Upload and download the image without any issue.

Please help. Image attached for reference.

Thanks&Regards,
Siva

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1198_Ipxe.png?:”]Ipxe.png[/url]

[Junkhacker]

have you tried any of the other ipxe boot files, such as undionly.kkpxe?

[Sivasubramaniam.T]

Hi Junk,

No, I have used the default undionly.kpxe

[belac]

I am experiencing this issue as well. any updates?

[Wolfbane8653]

belac,

Please give use the issue you are experiencing. Please also provide Fog version. Can you also give use a screen shot of your issue?

[belac]

[IMG]http://imgur.com/TBOI21Z[/IMG]

fog ver 1.2.0
ubuntu 13.10

[belac]

to clarify. I received the same error as OP on a client machine. the screen shot is of test results for tftp on the fog server. The strange thing is last week this test passed and i was able to pxe boot as well. i havent made any changes except those to try to resolve the issue. there was another forum post that said to verify storage and tftp passwords were the same. I reset those via fog webui. firewall is disabled.

[Joseph Hales]

Can you log in to the ftp from another PC using the fog account?

[belac]

i ran the tftp tests listed in the wiki from a windows client and from the fog server, both fail. the windows client gets “timeout occurred”.

I can connect to ftp using a local user account (standard ftp port 21).

I am wondering if i misread some instructions somewhere. I thought that the storage user/pass was to be the same as the user/pass to login to Fog, is this not correct? When i setup the server i named the local account “fog” then the Fog server has the “fog” user and its password to access the webui, that is the password i set in “storage management”.

[Tom Elliott]

That is correct that your thoughts are incorrect. Understand?

Basically, the FOG GUI user/pass pair is completely different from the Storage Node user/pass.

The storage node user/pass is the Local Unix user fog/password pair. This is a randomly generated password generally created at install time.

To change this password you need to run: from terminal:
[code]
sudo passwd fog
[Enter your password] (there is no output)
[Confirm your password] (there is no output)
[/code]

Then, once changed, you’ll want to change: /opt/fog/.fogsettings
[code]password=“”[/code]

The “” would remain and you place your new fog user password here.

Then you change the Storage Node->Management Username/Password and the FOG Configuration->FOG Settings->TFTP Server->FOG_TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD

Once all of this is done and tested, you should be good from ftp.

[belac]

I am still getting the “permission denied” error when i do the test from the fog server. when i try to pxe boot the message flashes up so quickly i have not been able to pause quick enough to see if it is still the same.

i did notice some settings that i did not expect when i looked at .fogsettings. a little more back story, about two weeks ago i changed the fog server ip and went through another forum post that referenced some locations to update the IP. It had been working until today and i did see the correct IP in many locations in the webui but in .fogsettings it had the old IP still. I updated it.

in .fogsettings i updated, password=“<the new reset unix local ‘fog’ account password>”

I tried restarting tftp-hpa but it didnt help.

Thanks for the help. I am confident we will get this resolved, im sure i just missed somehting somewhere.

[Tom Elliott]

Can you give me an exact “permission denied” message?

[belac]

i posted a screen shot earlier today. let me know if you dont see it.

[Tom Elliott]

The image isn’t showing or displayed.

[belac]

[url]http://imgur.com/TBOI21Z[/url]

[Tom Elliott]

Based on the fact that a normal “test” to see if tftp is actually operating seems to fail, is the tftpd-hpa service actually running?

[code]sudo service tftpd-hpa restart[/code]

[belac]

tftpd-hpa is running. service --status-all shows it and i restarted it and it started without error.

the tftp test is still failing on the server but i am getting a different error on the client side.

when it tries to boot it references the old IP. I have gone through all the settings in the webui and .fogsettings. where else can it be pulling the old IP from?

[belac]

i found a random blog post that said to run “[SIZE=13px][FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#333333]./installfog.sh --no-upgrade” after changing the server IP. This looks like it was for pre 1.x versions so I dont know if it would be ok to run or not.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

[belac]

i ran the re-install of fog and pxe booting is working again. strangely enough the tftp test on the server still fails as does the client side test.

I will ignore it for now unless you think it will cause me headaches down the road.

[Tom Elliott]

I don’t know if it will, but it seems, to me, to be related to the tftp command possibly.