PXE boot menu then black screen
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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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[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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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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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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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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[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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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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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 -
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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would it hurt to go ahead and go into the trunk versions using svn
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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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Really sounds like its timing out at one of the steps. I second the recommendation to go SVN.
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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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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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have you verified that the bzImage, bzImage32, init.xz, and init_32.xz files downloaded successfully?
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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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I have registered host from PXE and the GUI. I uploaded a fresh image into the server. It see’s that image and you can see it in the GUI and command line. I am getting a file issue it happens to quick when I image I get all the way through to where it picks a node.
I get this
*Using Hard disk: /dev/sda
*Erasing Current MBR/GPI Tables…Done
awk: fatal: cannot open file '/images/WIN732bbaseimage/d1.minimum.par
r reading (No such file or directory)
Done -
Then it just says task complete and reboots. Never images anything
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are you getting bzimage errors, or does it go into the imaging task and fail out? those are entirely different things
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no the bzimage was only an issue when I perform a registration and select yes to image I get the bzimage error. The above error I just posted is when I try to image from fog on a good image or so I thought. It fails out of the image task at that point then says it completed and restarts.