Exit to Hard Drive Type - client setting instead of global setting

[Wayne Workman]

Most of our computers here work with sanboot style. The ones that do work with sanboot style won’t work with any other type.

And we have some lenovos that don’t work with sanboot style.

I’d like for the “exit to hard drive type” to be a client setting instead of a global setting, so that I can specify an “exit to hard drive type” that works for each particular model.

Edit

I’d like for the Global value inside of FOG Config to be the “default” value for new hosts, but I’d still like to set this at the host level. I’d also like to be able to use groups to set the value.

[d4rk3]

I second this

[Wayne Workman]

Bump… still wanting this feature. We had a very large shipment of Dell Optiplex 9020s come in (around 800) and they don’t work with sanboot style… so we cannot configure them to boot to the network first because we can’t individually assign them what works for them.

[Tom Elliott]

Are you 100% sure they don’t work with Sanboot? What’s the SATA controller set to?

[Wayne Workman]

@Tom-Elliott

The options are:

• Disabled
• ATA
• AHCI
• RAID On

And they are all set from factory to RAID On.

We can’t get them to network boot with any .efi file, and we are currently using undionly.kkpxe with the Dells set in Legacy mode.

[Wayne Workman]

AHCI properly exits to the HDD with sanboot style.

[Tom Elliott]

@Wayne-Workman Can you change them from Raid to AHCI/IDE?

[Wayne Workman]

@Tom-Elliott I am starting to wish that FOG could set a computer’s firmware options for you…

Windows fails to boot after I change it to AHCI… and we already have our image built for these.

[Lee Rowlett]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/922976#/en-gb/kb/922976 - quick fix to tackle switching to AHCI easily, might be worth setting image for AHCI?

also regarding setting Dell BIOS options via script/automatically

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/7532.dell-command-configure

Hope this helps

[Wayne Workman]

@Lee-Rowlett said:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/922976#/en-gb/kb/922976 - quick fix to tackle switching to AHCI easily, might be worth setting image for AHCI?

also regarding setting Dell BIOS options via script/automatically

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/7532.dell-command-configure

Hope this helps

I just read all of this and the links.
I will attempt this perhaps on Wednesday if all goes to plan. Monday I’m installing FOG at two of our sites and Tuesday I’m going to help with FOG at another site.

I’ve somehow become my org’s fog expert now ??? lol. I don’t know anything about FOG except for what I’ve learned from Tom and from the Forums here.

We are ever ever, so slightly ever behind on our very small 50 Optiplex 9020 imaging project. Although we’ve finished all our other projects already and will tackle this on (hopefully) Thursday.

So I’ll try this Wednesday and see how it goes.

[Wayne Workman]

Bumping this thread again. I think we need this feature.

[Tom Elliott]

Added.

FOG Version 4692 now has the ability to set hosts individually with specific boot type exit parameters.

They can also be setup by groups. I don’t have any good way to verify that the individual items will actually work, as all of my systems are VMs, and only one of them is my “test” station for now.

Please test and let me know if things are good to go for you all.

[Wayne Workman]

@Tom-Elliott Just tried out this feature in the current trunk, there is a bug with it. I’m on r4788 I think.

When setting one group’s “Group Bios Exit Type” to “Grub”, it changed this option for every client in the building…

So, using groups, I’ve quickly set everything in the building back to SANBOOT.

I’d consider this a pretty high priority bug because it would have likely prevented many systems from booting.

[Wayne Workman]

It also appears to have turned off all service settings for all computers in the building, and I cannot turn them all back on via Groups…

Going to revert to Friday’s snapshot on r4571

[Tom Elliott]

@Wayne-Workman I’m not sure i understand, it’s setting ALL clients, even those that are not in the group?

[dloudon96]

Has this been sorted, We’re running 1.3.4 and I’m getting an error about chainloading failed, FOG has been working fine for around 2 years on version 1.3.4 and now stopped working.

[Sebastian Roth]

@dloudon96 If it has worked before I doubt this thread is helping to fix things for you. Please open a new topic (there is no restriction) and post all your details - error message (picture of screen), steps you tried, things that changed before it stopped working, …