TFTP Boot Dell Optiplex 780 (Lastest Bios A15)

[sourceminer]

Seems the only way to get these machines to boot to PXE is to assign a task, IE Quick Wipe, Inventory, etc.
Anyone have ideas as to why this is?

PXE starts, init.xz OK then reboots. Never gets to the Fog Menu.

I have about 45 Machines to deploy and I would like to register each one into the fog server using the menu options.

Further when trying to deploy an image the image fails to load.

[sourceminer]

Also Verified a Lenovo Machine getting to the Fog Splash Screen but then rebooting before menu loads,
Further yet an HP Machine doing the same thing… man just not having very much first time luck with fog.

[sourceminer]

Tried to create a gPXE bootable disk with all drivers, using the site: [url]http://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-1.0.0/contrib/rom-o-matic/build.php[/url]

Still did not work.

[Sebastian Roth]

[quote=“sourceminer, post: 44492, member: 29126”]Seems the only way to get these machines to boot to PXE is to assign a task, IE Quick Wipe, Inventory, etc.
Anyone have ideas as to why this is?

PXE starts, init.xz OK then reboots. Never gets to the Fog Menu.[/quote]

Other machines are working alright (boot menu…), right? What happens when you do NOT schedule a task with those machines? Please take a screenshot or post the error message you see!

Seems like others where able to get FOG running on Optiplex 780:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/pc-stalls-on-waiting-for-link-up-on-net0.12202/[/url]
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-and-nic-bonding-questions.11596/[/url] (different issue but still 780s)
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-1-2-0-w-dhcp-bootp-reply-not-for-us.11368/[/url]

Which version of FOG do you have? 1.2.0? Maybe you need to update the kernel to make those work…

[sourceminer]

Hey Uncle Frank, so None of the machines show the menu at all. (except a virtual machine)
I cannot get a screen shot as they just reboot… Perhaps a video.
Have tried both the 64 bit version and the 32 Bit versions of the 3.14.2 Kernel

[sourceminer]

So it seems working with Uncle Frank again, the issue is the background Image causing the panic.
Frank commented out the bit of php code to show the fog background and the machines were able to boot to the Fog Menu

/var/www/fog/lib/fog/BootMenu.class.php
[CODE]// print “console --picture $this->booturl/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80\n”;[/CODE]

[Tom Elliott]

If you’re running the latest version of SVN, this problem shouldn’t be occurring. Particularly because I’ve added a checker to the console line that basically prints an “ugly” menu if console can’t operate.

[sourceminer]

Sounds good Tom, I was hesitant to use the Development build for obvious reasons. For the record 1.2.0 is the version I downloaded from the Sourceforge link on the home page: [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/files/latest/download[/url]

I will attempt to use the latest development build located here:
[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/SVN[/url]

[Wayne Workman]

[quote=“sourceminer, post: 44591, member: 29126”]Sounds good Tom, I was hesitant to use the Development build for obvious reasons. For the record 1.2.0 is the version I downloaded from the Sourceforge link on the home page: [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/files/latest/download[/url]

I will attempt to use the latest development build located here:
[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/SVN[/url][/quote]

If it wasn’t for the development versions, FOG wouldn’t work in my environment.