HP c7000 blade severs

elliott · Oct 21, 2014, 4:09 PM

Afternoon,

I’ve recently acquired some HP Proliant c7000 blade severs and am attempting to deploy an image to the via fog 1.2.0. We have other hardware that is workig just fine with the current setup.

When pxe booting the blades, they grab a dhcp address but then errors out on the following message:

PXE-E79 : NBP is too big to fit in free base memory
PXE-M0F : Exiting Intel Boot Agent

From reading some other threads, i tried to swap the ipxe files over located in /tftpboot, i tried all of the options but none seem to work.

I’m also suffering from the weired bug that prevents me from accessing the task manager page, but that’s too much of an issue right now.

thanks in advance,

elliott

elliott · Oct 21, 2014, 4:33 PM

I also get the following errors:

Could not configure console : Input/output error ([url]http://ipxe.org/1d8c2139[/url])
Could not boot : Input/output error ([url]http://ipxe.org/1d8c2139[/url])
Could not boot : Input/output error ([url]http://ipxe.org/1d8c2139[/url])

Tom Elliott · Oct 21, 2014, 4:40 PM

@elliott:
What version of FOG?

Can you try SVN?

elliott · Oct 21, 2014, 4:57 PM

Hi Tom,

Here are the details :
FOG - 1.2.0
OS - CentOS release 6.5 (Final)

The apache logs indicate there is an issue with the formatting of the time when accessing the task management page:

[Tue Oct 21 18:07:30 2014] [error] [client 192.168.0.111] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method TaskManagementPage::formatTime() in /var/www/html/fog/lib/pages/TaskManagementPage.class.php on line 437,

i’ll have a go at svn

install log:

Script started on Fri 25 Jul 2014 12:42:53 BST
CentOS

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###########################################

FOG

Free Computer Imaging Solution

[url]http://www.fogproject.org/[/url]

Developers:

Chuck Syperski

Jian Zhang

Peter Gilchrist

Tom Elliott

GNU GPL Version 3

###########################################

Version: 1.2.0 Installer/Updater

Found FOG Settings from previous install at: /opt/fog/.fogsettings
Performing upgrade using these settings…

Staring Redhat / CentOS Installation.
…/lib/redhat/functions.sh: line 1: n#: command not found

#####################################################################

FOG now has everything it needs to setup your server, but please
understand that this script will overwrite any setting you may
have setup for services like DHCP, apache, pxe, tftp, and NFS.

It is not recommended that you install this on a production system
as this script modifies many of your system settings.

This script should be run by the root user on Redhat or with sudo on Ubuntu.

** Notice ** Redhat users will need to disable SELinux and iptables in
order to use FOG
Please see our wiki for more information at [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki[/url]

Here are the settings FOG will use:
Base Linux: Redhat
Detected Linux Distribution: CentOS
Installation Type: Normal Server
Server IP Address: 192.168.100.1
DHCP router Address:
DHCP DNS Address:
Interface: eth1
Using FOG DHCP: 1
Internationalization: 0
Donate: 0

Are you sure you wish to continue (Y/N) y

Installation Started…

Installing required packages, if this fails
make sure you have an active internet connection.

Packages to be installed: httpd php php-cli php-common php-gd php-mysql mysql mysql-server dhcp tftp-server nfs-utils vsftpd net-tools wget xinetd tar gzip make m4 gcc gcc-c++ lftp
Skipping package: httpd (Already installed)
Skipping package: php (Already installed)
Skipping package: php-cli (Already installed)
Skipping package: php-common (Already installed)
Skipping package: php-gd (Already installed)
Skipping package: php-mysql (Already installed)
Skipping package: mysql (Already installed)
Skipping package: mysql-server (Already installed)
Skipping package: dhcp (Already installed)
Skipping package: tftp-server (Already installed)
Skipping package: nfs-utils (Already installed)
Skipping package: vsftpd (Already installed)
Skipping package: net-tools (Already installed)
Skipping package: wget (Already installed)
Skipping package: xinetd (Already installed)
Skipping package: tar (Already installed)
Skipping package: gzip (Already installed)
Skipping package: make (Already installed)
Skipping package: m4 (Already installed)
Skipping package: gcc (Already installed)
Skipping package: gcc-c++ (Already installed)
Skipping package: lftp (Already installed)

Confirming package installation.

Checking package: httpd…OK
Checking package: php…OK
Checking package: php-cli…OK
Checking package: php-common…OK
Checking package: php-gd…OK
Checking package: php-mysql…OK
Checking package: mysql…OK
Checking package: mysql-server…OK
Checking package: dhcp…OK
Checking package: tftp-server…OK
Checking package: nfs-utils…OK
Checking package: vsftpd…OK
Checking package: net-tools…OK
Checking package: wget…OK
Checking package: xinetd…OK
Checking package: tar…OK
Checking package: gzip…OK
Checking package: make…OK
Checking package: m4…OK
Checking package: gcc…OK
Checking package: gcc-c++…OK
Checking package: lftp…OK

Configuring services.

Setting up and starting MySQL…OK
Backing up user reports…OK
Setting up and starting Apache Web Server…OK
You still need to install/update your database schema.
This can be done by opening a web browser and going to:

[url]http://192.168.100.1/fog/management[/url]

Press [Enter] key when database is updated/installed.

Configuring Fresh Clam…Skipped (See wiki for installation instructions)
Setting up storage…OK
Setting up and starting DHCP Server…OK
Setting up and starting TFTP and PXE Servers…OK
Setting up and starting VSFTP Server…OK
Setting up sudo settings…OK
Setting up FOG Snapins…OK
Setting up and building UDPCast…OK
Installing init scripts…OK
Setting up FOG Services…OK
Starting FOG Multicast Management Server…OK
Starting FOG Image Replicator Server…OK
Starting FOG Task Scheduler Server…OK
Setting up FOG Utils…OK

Would you like to notify the FOG group about this installation?
* This information is only used to help the FOG group determine
if FOG is being used. This information helps to let us know
if we should keep improving this product.

Send notification? (Y/N)n
NOT sending notification.

Setup complete!

You can now login to the FOG Management Portal using
the information listed below. The login information
is only if this is the first install.

This can be done by opening a web browser and going to:

  [url]http://192.168.100.1/fog/management[/url]

  Default User:
         Username: fog
         Password: password

Script done on Fri 25 Jul 2014 12:43:27 BST

Junkhacker · Oct 21, 2014, 4:58 PM

you could try chainloading from pxelinux.0

elliott · Oct 21, 2014, 5:04 PM

just checking out 1.3, will be testing shortly

elliott · Oct 21, 2014, 6:15 PM

1.3 didnt seem to work, same errors about nbp being too big.

so followed the chainloading instrcutions from,

[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Chainloading_PXE_to_iPXE_using_pxelinux.0[/url]

Error 0x040ee119 ([url]http://ipxe.org/040ee119[/url])
Waiting for link-up on net1…Down ([url]http://ipxe.org/38086101[/url])

so, that didnt work, so removed the symlink to pxelinux, back to undionly.kpxe and it’s suddenly started to work, have registered the host and am now deploying. fingers crossed…