HP Stream 11 pro

[drc0nc]

@Sebastian-Roth I can usb boot into any OS, I just tried ubuntu. These streams are running windows 8.1 but i dont think that matters at this point.
I dont know where to look if any errors do show up. would it be in a log file?

[Sebastian Roth]

@drc0nc No, errors won’t be in any log file AFAIK. Only on screen.

Have you tried other iPXE binaries? There are different ones coming with FOG. Change your DHCP settings to point to undionly.kkpxe (double ‘k’) or ipxe.pxe/kpxe/kkpxe and see if it makes any difference.

Or should we try booting iPXE via CD/USB and load the kernel from there? I remember that some time ago it was impossible to boot iPXE over network on Mac OS X clients. Everyone just booted those via CD/USB. Has been fixed now for a while but maybe your HP books are also causing some kind of weird issue when booting iPXE over network. It’s pretty late here and I can’t go into the details of compiling iPXE just now. But you can try generating a USB/ISO file yourself online: https://rom-o-matic.eu/

Select Advanced, USB or ISO, NIC type: undionly, PXE_STACK, IMAGE_BZIMAGE, CONSOLE_FRAMEBUFFER and the following three lines as embedded script:

#!ipxe
dhcp
shell

When you get to the iPXE shell you can issue different commands. For example loading kernel/initrd to boot (untested - so might have minor typos in it):

kernel bzImage loglevel=7 debug initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000
imgfetch init.xz
boot

[Sebastian Roth]

@drc0nc Any new on this? I’d really love to see this working!

[drc0nc]

@Sebastian-Roth Sorry, I haven’t tried booting iPXE via USB yet. But I have tried all the other pxe binaries through the network. It all comes to the same result. It just likes to turn the nic off and hang right after init.xz

[Sebastian Roth]

@drc0nc We were just able to get some UEFI enabled devices up and running. See here: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6092/cannot-boot-into-fog-menu-in-uefi-mode

You might try updating to the latest trunk and see if this works for you as well. Enable UEFI and use ipxe.efi…

[drc0nc]

@Sebastian-Roth awesome, will try today and will let you know!

[drc0nc]

@Sebastian-Roth Holy cow! that let me boot past init.xz!!! Now I’m getting the error Cannot find HDD on system when running host reg

[drc0nc]

[drc0nc]

i followed this also https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/BIOS_and_UEFI_Co-Existence

[Tom Elliott]

@drc0nc oh damn it.

Let me guess, it isn’t working at all and you’re running kernel 4.3.0?

[drc0nc]

@Tom-Elliott lol yea, latest svn and kernel 4.3.0 I’m not sure as to why it’s not seeing a HDD
btw thanks for all the help so far and have a good veterans day Tom, I’m also a vet

[Tom Elliott]

Can you change the Kernel out to the 4.2.3 variant?

I’ll recompile the 4.3.0 kernel so the RPMBD issue is fixed for the mmc devices.

[drc0nc]

@Tom-Elliott will do, same problem… (why is the image upside down lol?)

[drc0nc]

update, this is what it shows if I ignore

[Sebastian Roth]

Looks pretty good to me. To make this work you need to set “Host Primary Disk” to ‘/dev/mmcblk0’ (without the quotes!) in the host settings of this particular host. Please give it a try and see if you can upload an image…

[drc0nc]

@Sebastian-Roth YES! It’s currently pulling an image, I had to set it to do a multiple partition disk non re-sizable… I’ll update you guys if I can deploy it after it completes the pull

Thanks again to all that helped!

[drc0nc]

I got an image to successfully deploy! Now about 60 more to go!

[Wayne Workman]

@drc0nc Can you please let us know exactly what boot file you’re using, what kernel version, what kernel arguments, and what you put in the host disk fields? Basically anything specific to this device.

We need to put this information into the WiKi under the working hardware lists for others to benefit from.

[drc0nc]

@Wayne-Workman Alright, here’s the specs and I hope it will help people with their HP’s
Fog version: svn 5293
Boot file:ipxe.efi
Kernel: 4.2.3 (4.3.0 wasn’t working at the time for this specific problem)
Kernel arg: has_usb_nic=1
Host disk: /dev/mmcblk0 (this was important, fog wasn’t recognizing the HDD unless this was valid.)
Using an Ethernet to usb adapter that has an ASIX AX88772B in it.

[Wayne Workman]

hash tagging this so I can find it later for addition to the wiki.
EDIT: Added