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    • JunkhackerJ
      Junkhacker Developer
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      [quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 46755, member: 28155”]Are you using a dongle to Ethernet adapter, or WiFi ?[/quote]

      using the microsoft USB dongle. my legacy machines are working like they always have, uefi machines are loading ipxe.efi

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      • Wayne WorkmanW
        Wayne Workman
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        [quote=“Junkhacker, post: 46782, member: 21583”]using the microsoft USB dongle. my legacy machines are working like they always have, uefi machines are loading ipxe.efi[/quote]

        Do share how you did it.

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        • N
          need2 Moderator
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          [quote=“Junkhacker, post: 46782, member: 21583”]using the microsoft USB dongle. my legacy machines are working like they always have, uefi machines are loading ipxe.efi[/quote]

          Do I need to bribe you?

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          • JunkhackerJ
            Junkhacker Developer
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            for windows server 2012 DHCP, it was as simple as the link Wayne Workman posted.
            [url]http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-January/021404.html[/url] create vendor class that matches uefi systems ([I][COLOR=#000000]PXEClient:Arch:00007[/COLOR][/I]) and give those that match a different bootfile (in my case, ipxe.efi)

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            • N
              need2 Moderator
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              I see… interesting. This may be the direction that things have to go. DnsMasq seems in sufficient for EFI PXE and some older PXE clients. I’m still going to try a few things with it, but otherwise we might just have to make good documentation on the changes to make to a Windows 2012+ DHCP and a Linux DHCP to achieve coexistence. I will work on the Windows 2012 DHCP configs eventually (assuming DnsMasq fails me), but I will need to spin up a new 2012 server and integrate it to our domain first.

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              • Wayne WorkmanW
                Wayne Workman
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                This is the thread:

                [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/undionly-kpxe-and-ipxe-efi.12607/[/url]

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                • d4rk3D
                  d4rk3
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                  Has anyone tried either of my configs I posted? Both of them properly serve legacy/efi bootfiles.

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                  • Wayne WorkmanW
                    Wayne Workman
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                    I will tonight. I had other things going on last night when you posted those.

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                    • N
                      need2 Moderator
                      last edited by

                      I will see what I can do as well… light staffing here today so I’m a bit busy.

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                      • d4rk3D
                        d4rk3
                        last edited by

                        No worries, just wanted to make sure nobody overlooked them.

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                        • Wayne WorkmanW
                          Wayne Workman
                          last edited by

                          [quote=“d4rk3, post: 46768, member: 23583”]Give this a try under [B]tftp-root=/tftpboot[/B] (replace FOG with your FOG server’s hostname):

                          [CODE]dhcp-boot=undionly.kpxe,FOG,10.0.0.3
                          dhcp-match=set:efi-ia32,option:client-arch,6
                          dhcp-boot=tag:efi-ia32,ipxe.efi,FOG,10.0.0.3
                          dhcp-match=set:efi-x86_64,option:client-arch,7
                          dhcp-boot=tag:efi-x86_64,snp.efi,FOG,10.0.0.3
                          dhcp-range=10.0.0.3,proxy,255.255.255.0
                          [/CODE][/quote]

                          I don’t know what parts you want me to take out, though…

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                          • Tom ElliottT
                            Tom Elliott
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                            Who’s already got this working?

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                            Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                            • d4rk3D
                              d4rk3
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                              [quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 47037, member: 28155”]I don’t know what parts you want me to take out, though…[/quote]

                              None. Just replace [B]FOG[/B] with your FOG server’s hostname and replace [B]10.0.0.3[/B] with your FOG server’s IP.

                              I goofed on the last line, it should read [I][FONT=Consolas]dhcp-range=[/FONT][/I][B][I][FONT=Consolas]10.0.0.0[/FONT][/I][/B][I][FONT=Consolas],proxy,255.255.255.0[/FONT][/I]

                              For that, replace [B]10.0.0.0[/B] with your network’s address.

                              And if you want to change any of the bootfiles to different ones have at it.

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                              • Wayne WorkmanW
                                Wayne Workman
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                                Well, 10.0.0.3 IS my home FOG server’s IP address. It’s a private address, not public, and it’s home so I don’t care about sharing here.

                                And my network’s address is 10.0.0.0 I set my house up like that for simplicity… it’s easier to type than that dumb 192.168.1 BS that most home DHCP is configured with.

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                                • Tom ElliottT
                                  Tom Elliott
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                                  The dhcp-range line, I recommend, being set to your fog server. It will automatically work on the network your fogserver is on. If you’re actually trying to use a range of IP’s for Proxy to hand out then you would have something like:
                                  [code]dhcp-range=10.0.0.0,10.0.0.255,proxy,255.255.255.0[/code]

                                  However this is more than overkill. I think it highly unlikely you will be handing more than the network allowed (253 – e.g. gateway, network, broadcast) of your fog server’s possibilities.

                                  If you know you’ll be hitting more than that at any time, just open the subnet to a higher range. Whatever the IP is set will be the same network the proxy hands out within.

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                                  Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                                  • J
                                    Jeroen Brussich
                                    last edited by

                                    [quote=“Junkhacker, post: 46793, member: 21583”]for windows server 2012 DHCP, it was as simple as the link Wayne Workman posted.
                                    [url]http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-January/021404.html[/url] create vendor class that matches uefi systems ([I][COLOR=#000000]PXEClient:Arch:00007[/COLOR][/I]) and give those that match a different bootfile (in my case, ipxe.efi)[/quote]

                                    Did you got this up and running?
                                    I created the Vendor Class, created the policy, downloaded ipxe.efi and updated the DHCP server settings in 2012R2

                                    Legacy Boot + undionly.kpxe ~ working
                                    UEFI boot + ipxe.efi ~ [B]not working[/B]

                                    [B]edit:[/B] typo ([I]ipxe.kpxe[/I] should have been[I] ipxe.efi[/I])

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                                    • JunkhackerJ
                                      Junkhacker Developer
                                      last edited by

                                      [quote=“Jeroen Brussich, post: 47054, member: 23215”]Did you got this up and running?
                                      I created the Vendor Class, created the policy, downloaded ipxe.efi and updated the DHCP server settings in 2012R2

                                      Legacy Boot + undionly.kpxe ~ working
                                      UEFI boot + ipxe.kpxe ~ [B]not working[/B][/quote]

                                      ipxe network boot is working for me. i set my uefi boot to ipxe.efi
                                      uefi imaging isn’t working perfectly for me, but that has nothing to do with the network
                                      i can schedule tasks, access the boot menu (without graphics), and load the fog kernel

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                                      • J
                                        Jeroen Brussich
                                        last edited by

                                        I did configure both bootfiles on the same tftpserver.
                                        Maybe that’s what I did wrong?

                                        This is what i see on my boot screen:
                                        [CODE]tftp://MY.IP/default.ipxe… ok
                                        http://MY.IP/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php… ok
                                        http://MY.IP/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png… ok

                                        Could not use picture: Exec format error (htt://ipxe.org/2e008081)
                                        Could not boot: Exec format error (htt://ipxe.org/2e008081)
                                        Could not boot: Exec format error (htt://ipxe.org/2e008081)

                                        Failed to get IP, Booting back to bios
                                        [/CODE]

                                        I downloaded ipxe.efi from [url]https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/[/url]

                                        [B]edit:[/B] even if I don’t use the policy and make ipxe.efi the default BootFile Name of that scope, I get the same error. Maybe my ipxe.efi file is corrupt?

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                                        • d4rk3D
                                          d4rk3
                                          last edited by

                                          [quote=“Jeroen Brussich, post: 47057, member: 23215”]I did configure both bootfiles on the same tftpserver.
                                          Maybe that’s what I did wrong?

                                          This is what i see on my boot screen:
                                          [CODE]tftp://MY.IP/default.ipxe… ok
                                          http://MY.IP/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php… ok
                                          http://MY.IP/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png… ok

                                          Could not use picture: Exec format error (htt://ipxe.org/2e008081)
                                          Could not boot: Exec format error (htt://ipxe.org/2e008081)
                                          Could not boot: Exec format error (htt://ipxe.org/2e008081)

                                          Failed to get IP, Booting back to bios
                                          [/CODE]

                                          I downloaded ipxe.efi from [url]https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/[/url]

                                          [B]edit:[/B] even if I don’t use the policy and make ipxe.efi the default BootFile Name of that scope, I get the same error. Maybe my ipxe.efi file is corrupt?[/quote]

                                          It’s definitely working because the bootfile instructed your client to download default.ipxe and so on.

                                          That being said, the problem now is with the bg.png picture. Maybe Tom will chime in with a fix for the bg.png…

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                                          • Wayne WorkmanW
                                            Wayne Workman
                                            last edited by

                                            There’s another guy that had this issue… he said he just commented out the code for the picture…

                                            But then he ran into a ton of other issues too. He had built his own ROM for his NIC.

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