Surface Pro 3 PXE:

[Matt Edwards]

I’m about to deploy 40 Surface Pro 3 devices into the school I work at - so I’m glad I’ve picked up on this thread - We have purchased only 1 Microsoft USB Surface LAN Adaptor - Will we have issue within FOG - as potentially every Surface will have the same MAC address - or do we only configure 1 of the surfaces within the console and then use this same machine in FOG to deploy to all the Tablets that are using the same USB LAN Connector?

Thanks

Matt

[d4rk3]

You’ll have to add one of them to FOG’s list of hosts, deploy your image, then replace the LAN adapter’s MAC with the Surface’s wireless MAC. Rinse and repeat until done.

I had to do this with over 500 tablets/10 LAN adapters a few months back…blah.

[Matt Edwards]

Did you manage to get the surface’s to boot into FOG using the official Microsoft USB LAN Adaptor or only the docking station?

I’ve created a modified EFI Bootfile as mentioned above and added it into the tftpboot folder on the fog server, and changed the boot file to use in DHCP, but I can’t get it to boot up into Fog.

It loads up the PXE boot very quickly and a message about downloading an image but then it goes and continues to load up the surface into Windows.

Thanks

Matt

[Tom Elliott]

I’m just at a loss. have you tried the current ipxe files?

[Matt Edwards]

Sorry Tom,

Where do I find the latest ipxe files to install?

Thanks

Matt

[Tom Elliott]

[url]https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp[/url]

[Matt Edwards]

Just tried with the file supplied in the link and it still won’t boot to the Fog menu - I get downloading NBP? File…

Then blips saying successful and then continues to load up Windows.

[Matt Edwards]

OK,

I originally tried using the ipxe.efi which failed to boot the surface to the fog menu,

I then tried the snp.efi which booted to a very basic looking menu, I tried to register the host and I get the message:-

i8042: Can’t read CTR while initializing i8042
usb usb2-port1: couldn’t allocate usb_device
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)
Kernel Offset: 0x0 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff9fffffff)
—[ end of Kernal panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount fs on unknown-block(1,0)

I’ve also tried changing the bootfile to snponly.efi and get the same error as above.

Thanks

Matt

[Tom Elliott]

What version of fog?

[Matt Edwards]

We are running FOG Version 1.2.0 on Ubuntu 12:10

Thanks

Matt

[Tom Elliott]

okay, Matt, can you attempt upgrading to SVN? The command line you’re missing (causing your boot problem) is initrd=init.xz. This is corrected for in SVN, though I am aware of some issues potentially with the init and am working hard to try correcting them.

[Matt Edwards]

I’m really sorry Tom, are you able to guide me to what I should be doing exactly to achieve what you say. I’m not too familiar with the background workings of Linux.

Thanks

Matt

[Wolfbane8653]

[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Upgrade_to_trunk[/url]

[d4rk3]

Do this:

[SIZE=13px][INDENT]Go here:

[URL=‘https://rom-o-matic.eu/’]https://rom-o-matic.eu[/URL]

Advanced - EFI PXE Bootstrap 32-bit

Check these boxes:

[URL=‘http://www.ipxe.org/buildcfg/PARAM_CMD’][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]PARAM_CMD[/COLOR][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000], Form parameter commands [/COLOR][/FONT]
[URL=‘http://www.ipxe.org/buildcfg/CONSOLE_CMD’][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]CONSOLE_CMD[/COLOR][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000], Console command [/COLOR][/FONT]
[URL=‘http://www.ipxe.org/buildcfg/CPUID_SETTINGS’][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]CPUID_SETTINGS[/COLOR][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000], CPUID settings[/COLOR][/FONT]

And paste this script in the script box (Replace x.x.x.x with your FOG server’s IP or hostname):

#!ipxe

dhcp
cpuid --ext 29 && set arch i386 ||
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param product ${product}
param manufacturer ${product}
param ipxever ${version}
param filename ${filename}
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:bootme
chain [url]http://x.x.x.x/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php##params[/url]

Click Proceed, and voila! Copy the new EFI bootfile to your /tftpboot folder and give it a whirl![/INDENT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=11px] [/SIZE]

[Matt Edwards]

Thanks - I’ll give this another shot - but I tried this a few days back after reading your earlier post and couldn’t get it to work!

[d4rk3]

I’m hoping that once you make a 32-bit bootfile that it’ll work. Unless you already have…

[Matt Edwards]

Morning,

I’ve tried again using the modified ipxe.efi file created from the website - When I set that as the bootfile and boot up the Surface Pro 3 I get…

Checking Media Presence…
Media Present…
Start PXE over IPv4

It flicks then to saying

Downloading NBP file… (this appears for a second or two)

Then moves onto

Checking Media Presence…
Media Present…
Start PXE over IPv6

Before continuing to boot up the Surface Pro 3.

I don’t get any Fog Menu

Thanks

Matt

[d4rk3]

Try making a 32-bit EFI bootfile with a script that only has these contents:

#!ipxe

dhcp
shell

If that doesn’t work either, make a 64-bit one with the same script.

One of those should bring you to an iPXE shell.

[Matt Edwards]

Thanks - will try this tomorrow when I’m back in work.

If I manage to get it working, will this then boot up the fog menu or will I need to enter some command in the iPXE shell to load fog? If so, what will I need to enter?

Thanks

Matt

[Sebastian Roth]

You’ll end up in an iPXE shell…
dhcp, ifstat, ipstat and ping will be helpful to debug you network connection. When it is up you can just chainload default.ipxe (chain tftp://<tftp-ip>/default.ipxe) OR run all the commands by hand (see d4rk3’s earlier post #45).