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    • Wayne WorkmanW
      Wayne Workman @Charlee593
      last edited by

      @Charlee593 said:

      T430s

      verified working on 2015-06-24 using undionly.kpxe
      https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/WorkingDevices

      Are you purposely trying to UEFI boot? Have you not tried to put the laptops into legacy mode, or turn legacy option ROM support on?

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      • Tom ElliottT
        Tom Elliott @Charlee593
        last edited by

        @Charlee593 Can you try some of the other .efi files, for example, try the snp.efi, or snponly.efi.

        Or you can try the adapter (if it’s intel or realtek) efi file so (intel.efi or realtek.efi).

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          Sebastian Roth Moderator
          last edited by

          @Wayne-Workman said:

          Are you purposely trying to UEFI boot? Have you not tried to put the laptops into legacy mode, or turn legacy option ROM support on?

          Definitely a good point. But shouldn’t we be working towards better UEFI support in FOG?

          @Charlee593 There is a setting to enable kernel debug output on the console for booting. Please enable KERNEL_DEBUG and crank up the LOGLEVEL in your FOG Settings (FOG Boot Settings) to 7. Hope we see more messages than just this.

          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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          • Wayne WorkmanW
            Wayne Workman @Sebastian Roth
            last edited by

            @Sebastian-Roth said:

            Definitely a good point. But shouldn’t we be working towards better UEFI support in FOG?

            100% agree, but I had to ask.

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              Sebastian Roth Moderator
              last edited by

              @Tom-Elliott He already tried snp.efi and snponly.efi. Do you really think that iPXE is having an issue that can be fixed by using a different binary? Kernel and init ram disk are being loaded. So NIC capability in iPXE is definitely fine…

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              • Tom ElliottT
                Tom Elliott @Sebastian Roth
                last edited by

                @Sebastian-Roth It’s not always about the nic capability, but rather the memory segment to be used to load the init/kernel.

                That said, of course there’s always the possibility that it’s loading is just taking a while. Not everything is instant. So how long are these sitting there?

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                  Charlee593
                  last edited by

                  Thanks for the replies.
                  @Wayne-Workman said:

                  Are you purposely trying to UEFI boot? Have you not tried to put the laptops into legacy mode, or turn legacy option ROM support on?

                  We are purposely trying UEFI boot, the software that we are testing require window 8 or 10 in UEFI mode. We tried legacy mode and it works.

                  @Sebastian-Roth said:

                  There is a setting to enable kernel debug output on the console for booting. Please enable KERNEL_DEBUG and crank up the LOGLEVEL in your FOG Settings (FOG Boot Settings) to 7. Hope we see more messages than just this.

                  We set it to 7 and it show no more than previous message, no difference.

                  @Tom-Elliott said:

                  Can you try some of the other .efi files, for example, try the snp.efi, or snponly.efi.
                  I tried snp.efi, snponly.efi, intel.efi this time, they all stuck on “init.xz”

                  @Tom-Elliott said:

                  That said, of course there’s always the possibility that it’s loading is just taking a while. Not everything is instant. So how long are these sitting there?

                  It sit on the “init.xz” for around 5 minutes then it goes back to the boot manager of the laptop. Then I check the fog manager, no host has been registered.

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                    Sebastian Roth Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Debug enabled (DEBUG=image) ipxe.efi binary to try: ipxe.efi

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                      Sebastian Roth Moderator
                      last edited by Sebastian Roth

                      Might this change have anything to do with it?? http://sourceforge.net/p/freeghost/code/4302/tree//trunk/src/ipxe/src-efi/config/general.h?diff=4031

                      I kind of doubt it but it still jumped at me when I looked through the recent changes on ipxe in our code.

                      The binary I compiled is without those defines…

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                      • Tom ElliottT
                        Tom Elliott
                        last edited by

                        I suppose it could, I can remove it and try again.

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                          Charlee593
                          last edited by

                          It is able to register the device now. I reinstalled the fog server and run Sebastian’s ‘ipxe.efi’. Running Fog version 5291. Thanks for the help

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                          • Wayne WorkmanW
                            Wayne Workman @Charlee593
                            last edited by

                            @Charlee593 Way to go! and thank you @Sebastian-Roth !!!

                            I must now try this version of ipxe.efi and see if I can UEFI boot a Dell 🙂

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                              Charlee593 @Wayne Workman
                              last edited by Charlee593

                              @Wayne-Workman I gonna try capture and deploy an UEFI Window 8 enterprise image.

                              Fog version 5291

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                              • Tom ElliottT
                                Tom Elliott
                                last edited by

                                Can you re-retry with latest trunk? I’ve removed the image lines as @Sebastian-Roth suggested and pushed it out.

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                                  Charlee593 @Tom Elliott
                                  last edited by

                                  @Tom-Elliott
                                  Capture and Deploy window 8 in UEFI mode works. ( Fog version 5291 )
                                  Now I gonna try the Fog version 5293.

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                                    Charlee593 @Tom Elliott
                                    last edited by

                                    @Tom-Elliott The latest Fog can register the host too ( Fog version 5293 ). Thanks for the help 😄

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                                    • Wayne WorkmanW
                                      Wayne Workman
                                      last edited by

                                      Good news is I just UEFI network booted a Optiplex 9020 for the first time EVER! Awesome!!!

                                      Bad news is our network manager goofed the entire district’s dhcp… I told him not to set options for our administration center in the super scope because it’d interfere… gah…

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                                      • Wayne WorkmanW
                                        Wayne Workman
                                        last edited by Wayne Workman

                                        So… interesting…

                                        with the Ad-Center goofing the DHCP, and this one computer pulling a lease from the ad-center’s DHCP coincidentally, it booted over UEFI. Ad-Center has FOG SVN 4103, cloud 4848…

                                        I had our network manager change it back to point to our local fog server, which is running cloud 5293 svn 4323 and now UEFI network booting on the same machine is not working…

                                        Sucks that it worked and then broke, but that’s a solid place to start looking…

                                        -------------EDIT--------------

                                        I’m a moron, I didn’t have a task queued for our local FOG server. Did that and network booted over UEFI.

                                        IT’S IMAGING, NO PROBLEMS !!!

                                        I’m going to have all our sites update to the latest now after snap-shoting. 🙂

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                                          Sebastian Roth Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          Thanks guys for testing and reporting back that quickly! Sounds great from my point of view. Still I wonder why those config changes made a difference. @Tom-Elliott Why did you add those?

                                          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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                                          • Tom ElliottT
                                            Tom Elliott @Sebastian Roth
                                            last edited by

                                            @Sebastian-Roth to be honest, it was an attempt at comminizing the files so they were very similar between efi and non efi. It was not to hurt anything, but a way to make things more similar.

                                            It’s this separation that you see two ipxescript files as well.

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