Asus X200M
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I looked at the iPXE page and their screen shots differ from mine. It looks like this computer is trying to boot to a VLAN then it times out. It then shows the MAC address and then boots to a distorted registration window.
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What do you mean by “boot to a VLAN”?? And what is a distorted registration window?
Screenshots? Error messages…?
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Here is a link to download the video to watch the process
[url]https://mhsinc.egnyte.com/dl/2RmzIMevaL[/url]
Please let me know your thoughts
Thank you
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Does that look normal?
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The funky boot screen should still be functional, just not able to boot using the console db interface.
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I’m working with the manufacturer as well to see if they will release a BIOS patch to enable the legacy PXE option. Is there any info I can’t get from them that may be helpful? Drivers or something?
Thank you,
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As far as I can see on that video you are pretty close to get things working!! After bootup you see iPXE which loads, gets an IP address via DHCP and also loads the menu! Then it loads the linux kernel and initrd. Kind of weird that you don’t see any error messages but the menu again.
Could you please try downloading any kind of linux live CD (e.g. ubuntu) and try booting it, just to see how linux in general is running on your X200M. I found an article about someone installing linux on his X200M. Try following this to see if you can boot (not install!) ubuntu: [url]http://sajan.io/blog/asus-x200m-perfect-linux-ubuntu-xubunu-utility-laptop[/url] -
I was able to boot to Linux live from a USB with no issues at all. This is what I used [url]http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/features[/url]
Thanks!
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Which Linux did you choose. And please let us know about the version too (e.g. Ubuntu 14.04).
Have you ever tried registering that (test) client by hand in the web interface? What happens then when you boot that client? Do you see “registered host” in the headline of the boot menu?? What if you schedule an upload task for this host then? Does it upload?
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The server is a WMware Virtual Machine. It is running:
Ubuntu
Version 10.10 (maverick)
Kernal Linux 2.6.35-32-generic
Gnome 2.32.0I registered the (Test) client by hand in the web interface. It DOES show that it is registered when I boot the client to the Fog screen. When I schedule the image deployment it goes through the motions and then gives me an error "Kernel Panic - Not Syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)
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Have you tried my earlier suggestion?? For me this error sounds like the initrd issue on mac os x… see here: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/mac-support.11033/page-2#post-34584[/url]
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I’m not sure I follow. Could you explain in a bit more detail as to what I would need to do? I’ve read that post but I get a bit lost. I’m not sure where they are making changes and if so to what, and it sounds like they released a specific kernel but I can’t locate it.
Thank you
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Which version of FOG do you use? I guess you have 1.2.0 installed, right? It’s written in the small cloud on the web interface login site…
Please edit /var/www/fog/lib/fog/BootMenu.class.php and search for ‘imgfetch’ (without the quotes). I guess you’ll see this:
[CODE]…
$this->kernel = “kernel $bzImage root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=$ramsize ip=dhcp dns=$dns keymap=$keymap web=${webserver}${webroot} consoleblank=0”;
$this->initrd = “imgfetch $imagefile\n”;
…[/CODE]
Change it to make it look exactly like this:
[CODE]…
$this->kernel = “kernel $bzImage initrd=$initrd root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=$ramsize keymap=$keymap web=${webserver}${webroot} consoleblank=0”;
$this->initrd = “imgfetch $imagefile”;
…[/CODE]
And then there is another thing that needs to be changed in the same file. Find all the lines of code with ‘print $this->initrd’
[CODE]…
print "$this->kernel …
print “$this->initrd”;
…[/CODE]
should be…
[CODE]…
print “$this->initrd”;
print "$this->kernel …
…[/CODE]