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    • saltlife3122S
      saltlife3122
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      The only thing that works on my PXE boot menu is memtest everything else after you select it goes to a blank black screen and nothing else happens.

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      • JunkhackerJ
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        what tom meant about sourceforge being down is that your install most likely failed to download properly one or more of: bzImage, bzImage32, init.xz, and init_32.xz
        you may even seem to have the files, but they may only be partial downloads

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        • saltlife3122S
          saltlife3122
          last edited by

          oh so do I need to redo fog?

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          • JunkhackerJ
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            rerunning the installer would likely fix the problem, yes.

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            • saltlife3122S
              saltlife3122
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              I ran the re-install of fog. Now when I perform anything from the PXE boot menu I get a brief init.xz message then black screen still. I just re-did 2 more spare servers and a VM 2 with ubuntu 12.04 and one with ubuntu 14.04.2. Ran the fog installs from 3 different people which were all the same mostly. Still nothing.

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              • JunkhackerJ
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                [quote=“saltlife3122, post: 47284, member: 29668”]Ran the fog installs from 3 different people which were all the same mostly. [/quote]

                what do you mean by this?

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                • saltlife3122S
                  saltlife3122
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                  I mean I followed 3 different how to install fog tutorials from 3 different people who posted them on the web.

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                  • saltlife3122S
                    saltlife3122
                    last edited by

                    I have an update, my VM desktops seem to be working fine now with fog. They go through to full host registration. I am going to try and upload images now. Why does fog not work from physical desktops though?

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                    • saltlife3122S
                      saltlife3122
                      last edited by

                      The desktops and laptops all get to the pxe screen then get the init.xz ok and black blank screen nothing else. VM is fine now

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                      • JunkhackerJ
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                        [quote=“saltlife3122, post: 47293, member: 29668”]The desktops and laptops all get to the pxe screen then get the init.xz ok and black blank screen nothing else. VM is fine now[/quote]

                        how much time did you give the physical machines to boot?

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                        • saltlife3122S
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                          I used a different desktop, and it takes a while to boot but it does if I wait longer. My old server was .32 fog and it was never this slow to load up. But hey its working somewhat now just slow. Thanks for the help

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                          • JunkhackerJ
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                            what model of computer are you testing with?
                            speed should be comparable with 0.32 on startup, and i think you’ll find that imaging tasks have sped up a bit

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                            • saltlife3122S
                              saltlife3122
                              last edited by

                              everything we have are lenovo’s. We get to the PXE menu then it takes about a minute or 2 after for the black screen to go away into the fog prompt.

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                              • saltlife3122S
                                saltlife3122
                                last edited by

                                would it hurt to go ahead and go into the trunk versions using svn

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                                • N
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                                  I would say no. Everything is really stable in the trunk right now. That being said, back up anything critical if FOG is in production for you.

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                                  • Joseph HalesJ
                                    Joseph Hales Testers
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                                    Really sounds like its timing out at one of the steps. I second the recommendation to go SVN.

                                    RTFM

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                                    • saltlife3122S
                                      saltlife3122
                                      last edited by

                                      I already am svn at 3395. I can get hosts to register once. Now when I go back into the pxe boot I get a bzimage error could not boot etc.

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                                      • saltlife3122S
                                        saltlife3122
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                                        Seemed like from all the installs no one had this many problems getting pxe to boot. So when I register and schedule the host to image it gives me that bzimage error. But all the new computers will register fine but imaging won’t happen because of this error.

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                                        • JunkhackerJ
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                                          last edited by

                                          have you verified that the bzImage, bzImage32, init.xz, and init_32.xz files downloaded successfully?

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                                          • JunkhackerJ
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                                            last edited by

                                            how are you registering your hosts? from the pxe boot menu, or by entering the mac address into the web gui?

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