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      FlowLive
      last edited by

      Took longer than expected, had the FOGFTP error and had to fix that.

      Now I try the option in the menu but unfortunately all I got is a blinking cursor 😞

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      • george1421G
        george1421 Moderator
        last edited by george1421

        @FlowLive said:

        Took longer than expected, had the FOGFTP error and had to fix that.

        Now I try the option in the menu but unfortunately all I got is a blinking cursor 😞

        crud, I just noticed that the forum ate some of my command line. Lets try it as code. You have to pay attention to the double forward and back slashes.

        Menu Item: wds.BootIt
        Description: Launch WDS Boot x86
        Parameters:
        set wdsserver:ipv4 192.168.1.88
        set next-server ${wdsserver}
        chain tftp://${wdsserver}/Boot\\x86\\wdsnbp.com
        
        

        The slowness in the forum is driving me a bit nuts today. Its taking me almost 12 minutes to post this.

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          FlowLive
          last edited by

          Yeah for some reason it seems this is the only site where I experience slowliness to a point that I have to close my browser and reopen…
          After it’s all back to normal !

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            FlowLive @george1421
            last edited by FlowLive

            @george1421 So I was able to get something with this code, took the steps first as per
            http://ipxe.org/appnote/chainload_wds to add different
            boot/*
            boot*
            /boot/*
            \boot*
            /boot*
            parameters in the WDS server’s registry…

            I now get this;

            Downloaded WDSNBP...
            
            Architecture: x64
            WDSNBP started using DHCP Referral.
            Contacting Server: x.x.x.x (Gateway: 0.0.0.0)..
            No response from Windows Deployment Services server.
            Launching pxeboot.com...
            TFTP download failed
            

            Getting close! Any idea? I did restart WDS service after changing the registry, as per http://ipxe.org/appnote/chainload_wds
            The contact server ip is valid but I wonder about the gateway being all 0.0.0.0

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            • george1421G
              george1421 Moderator @FlowLive
              last edited by

              @FlowLive

              Looking and the chain load link that you sent. I did see this reference

                set netX/next-server ip.of.wds.server
                imgexec tftp://${netX/next-server}/boot/x86/wdsnbp.com
              

              What I think I might have missed is in my guess is setting the network adapter 0:

              set wdsserver:ipv4 192.168.1.88
              set net0/next-server ${wdsserver}
              

              Its interesting that the chain does work (kind of) that it does gram the wdsnnp.com file, but there is something in the referral that its missing to continue.

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                FlowLive @george1421
                last edited by FlowLive

                @george1421 Well with this one you just sent I still get a blinking cursor (I added /boot/x86/wdsnbp.com)

                This is what worked:

                set wdsserver:ipv4 <ip_addr_wds_server>
                set next-server ${wdsserver}
                chain tftp://${wdsserver}/Boot\x86\wdsnbp.com
                

                Funny thing is just changing to forward slashes after Boot and x86 brings back the blinking cursor… thought the changes to the registry was especially for that…

                Anyhow, now I tried;

                set wdsserver:ipv4 x.x.x.x
                set net0/next-server ${wdsserver}
                chain tftp://${wdsserver}/Boot\x86\wdsnbp.com
                

                It Works!!! 😲

                Got my PXE Menu showing, got to WDS, booted the wim file!

                This is great! Thanks a bunch!

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                • Wayne WorkmanW
                  Wayne Workman @FlowLive
                  last edited by

                  @FlowLive said:

                  @george1421 Well with this one you just sent I still get a blinking cursor (I added /boot/x86/wdsnbp.com)

                  This is what worked:

                  set wdsserver:ipv4 <ip_addr_wds_server>
                  set next-server ${wdsserver}
                  chain tftp://${wdsserver}/Boot\x86\wdsnbp.com
                  

                  Funny thing is just changing to forward slashes after Boot and x86 brings back the blinking cursor… thought the changes to the registry was especially for that…

                  Anyhow, now I tried;

                  set wdsserver:ipv4 x.x.x.x
                  set net0/next-server ${wdsserver}
                  chain tftp://${wdsserver}/Boot\x86\wdsnbp.com
                  

                  It Works!!! 😲

                  Got my PXE Menu showing, got to WDS, booted the wim file!

                  This is great! Thanks a bunch!

                  #wiki hash tagging this for addition to the WiKi.

                  Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!
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                    FlowLive
                    last edited by

                    I wonder if ip helper on the switches should be changed, I was informed it had been added before, you guys know?
                    I guess if it works I shouldnt change more but if there’s a potential problem with this let me know!

                    Funny thing now as well is booting to hard drive works, before it was booting memtest instead…

                    Now I read that it’s not possible to change the menu order of things, WDS being all the way down, can’t I just bump it up a little?

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                    • Wayne WorkmanW
                      Wayne Workman @FlowLive
                      last edited by

                      @FlowLive said:

                      Now I read that it’s not possible to change the menu order of things, WDS being all the way down, can’t I just bump it up a little?

                      I just tried and succeeded. Here were my steps:

                      
                      MariaDB [fog]> select pxeID, pxeName from pxeMenu;
                      +-------+-------------------+
                      | pxeID | pxeName           |
                      +-------+-------------------+
                      |     1 | fog.local         |
                      |     2 | fog.memtest       |
                      |     3 | fog.reginput      |
                      |     4 | fog.keyreg        |
                      |     5 | fog.reg           |
                      |     6 | fog.quickimage    |
                      |     7 | fog.multijoin     |
                      |     8 | fog.quickdel      |
                      |     9 | fog.sysinfo       |
                      |    10 | fog.debug         |
                      |    11 | fog.advanced      |
                      |    12 | fog.advancedlogin |
                      |    13 | fog.approvehost   |
                      |    14 | win7              |
                      |    15 | DBAN              |
                      |    16 | DBAN-Zero         |
                      +-------+-------------------+
                      16 rows in set (0.00 sec)
                      
                      MariaDB [fog]> update pxeMenu set pxeID=17 where pxeID=2;
                      Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
                      Rows matched: 1  Changed: 1  Warnings: 0
                      
                      MariaDB [fog]> select pxeID, pxeName from pxeMenu;
                      +-------+-------------------+
                      | pxeID | pxeName           |
                      +-------+-------------------+
                      |     1 | fog.local         |
                      |    17 | fog.memtest       |
                      |     3 | fog.reginput      |
                      |     4 | fog.keyreg        |
                      |     5 | fog.reg           |
                      |     6 | fog.quickimage    |
                      |     7 | fog.multijoin     |
                      |     8 | fog.quickdel      |
                      |     9 | fog.sysinfo       |
                      |    10 | fog.debug         |
                      |    11 | fog.advanced      |
                      |    12 | fog.advancedlogin |
                      |    13 | fog.approvehost   |
                      |    14 | win7              |
                      |    15 | DBAN              |
                      |    16 | DBAN-Zero         |
                      +-------+-------------------+
                      16 rows in set (0.00 sec)
                      
                      MariaDB [fog]> update pxeMenu set pxeID=2 where pxeID=16;
                      Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
                      Rows matched: 1  Changed: 1  Warnings: 0
                      
                      MariaDB [fog]> select pxeID, pxeName from pxeMenu;
                      +-------+-------------------+
                      | pxeID | pxeName           |
                      +-------+-------------------+
                      |     1 | fog.local         |
                      |    17 | fog.memtest       |
                      |     3 | fog.reginput      |
                      |     4 | fog.keyreg        |
                      |     5 | fog.reg           |
                      |     6 | fog.quickimage    |
                      |     7 | fog.multijoin     |
                      |     8 | fog.quickdel      |
                      |     9 | fog.sysinfo       |
                      |    10 | fog.debug         |
                      |    11 | fog.advanced      |
                      |    12 | fog.advancedlogin |
                      |    13 | fog.approvehost   |
                      |    14 | win7              |
                      |    15 | DBAN              |
                      |     2 | DBAN-Zero         |
                      +-------+-------------------+
                      16 rows in set (0.00 sec)
                      
                      MariaDB [fog]> update pxeMenu set pxeID=16 where pxeID=17;
                      Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
                      Rows matched: 1  Changed: 1  Warnings: 0
                      
                      MariaDB [fog]> select pxeID, pxeName from pxeMenu;
                      +-------+-------------------+
                      | pxeID | pxeName           |
                      +-------+-------------------+
                      |     1 | fog.local         |
                      |    16 | fog.memtest       |
                      |     3 | fog.reginput      |
                      |     4 | fog.keyreg        |
                      |     5 | fog.reg           |
                      |     6 | fog.quickimage    |
                      |     7 | fog.multijoin     |
                      |     8 | fog.quickdel      |
                      |     9 | fog.sysinfo       |
                      |    10 | fog.debug         |
                      |    11 | fog.advanced      |
                      |    12 | fog.advancedlogin |
                      |    13 | fog.approvehost   |
                      |    14 | win7              |
                      |    15 | DBAN              |
                      |     2 | DBAN-Zero         |
                      +-------+-------------------+
                      16 rows in set (0.00 sec)
                      
                      MariaDB [fog]>
                      

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                        FlowLive @Wayne Workman
                        last edited by

                        @Wayne-Workman Nice, how do you get to MariaDB? Are those change sticking through trunk updates?

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                          FlowLive @Wayne Workman
                          last edited by FlowLive

                          @Wayne-Workman
                          Is it normal that the latest commit I see in sourceforge is r4393?

                          Nervermind, I just realized how it’s setup…

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                          • Wayne WorkmanW
                            Wayne Workman @FlowLive
                            last edited by Wayne Workman

                            @FlowLive said:

                            @Wayne-Workman Nice, how do you get to MariaDB? Are those change sticking through trunk updates?

                            The settings should stick.

                            mysql
                            use fog
                            

                            @FlowLive said:

                            Is it normal that the latest commit I see in sourceforge is r4393?

                            Yep.

                            Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!
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                            https://fogtesting.fogproject.us/
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                            https://fog-external-reporting-results.fogproject.us/

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                            • george1421G
                              george1421 Moderator @FlowLive
                              last edited by

                              @FlowLive said:

                              Now I read that it’s not possible to change the menu order of things, WDS being all the way down, can’t I just bump it up a little?

                              Where it should be, way at the bottom. Where do you think the competition would put it, front and center?? 😑

                              I’m glad/happy you got that wds thing fixed out. From what I’ve read those forward / backslashes are a PITA to get worked out. It looks like you got the right combination to get it done.

                              Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!

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                              • Wayne WorkmanW
                                Wayne Workman @george1421
                                last edited by

                                @george1421 said:

                                @FlowLive said:

                                Now I read that it’s not possible to change the menu order of things, WDS being all the way down, can’t I just bump it up a little?

                                Where it should be, way at the bottom. Where do you think the competition would put it, front and center?? 😑

                                I have the urge to delete my post but the inner-tech in me says not to… lol

                                Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!
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                                https://fogtesting.fogproject.us/
                                FOG Reporting:
                                https://fog-external-reporting-results.fogproject.us/

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                                • george1421G
                                  george1421 Moderator
                                  last edited by george1421

                                  I’m going to guess that its not possible to change the display order. There is no concept of display order in the database so I assume the display order is being set based on the record ID where boot from the hard drive is record ID 1. I would not recommend messing with any record ID to alter the display order.

                                  You will receive much bad karma if you do go ahead with this plan.

                                  Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!

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                                  • Wayne WorkmanW
                                    Wayne Workman @george1421
                                    last edited by

                                    @george1421 Yeah you’re right. The DB changes below do alter the order in which the items are showed, but it doens’t change what’s done.

                                    It appears that the fog default items are hard-coded somehow.

                                    Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!
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                                    https://fog-external-reporting-results.fogproject.us/

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                                    • Tom ElliottT
                                      Tom Elliott @Wayne Workman
                                      last edited by

                                      @Wayne-Workman Magic.

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                                        need2 Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        I’m late to the party, but no I never got WDS and FOG to play well together. I wasn’t just trying to get them to coexist on the same network though, I was pressing their faces so hard together that they’d forget if they were kissing or not. My goal was to work around the now solved issue of using a Windows DHCP environment to handle Legacy and UEFI PXE coexistence, which WDS can inherently handle.

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                                        • george1421G
                                          george1421 Moderator @need2
                                          last edited by

                                          @need2 said:

                                          I’m late to the party, but no I never got WDS and FOG to play well together.

                                          @FlowLive was just able to do this. Its a bit down in the thread, but he has FOG acting as the PXE boot server then you can select the WDS environment from the FOG Menu.

                                          I went the other way around and setup FOG to be able to boot the MDT litetouch image so that you can deploy through MDT from the FOG boot menu. Two different ways to have FOG and MDT/WDS coexist.

                                          Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!

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                                            need2 Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            Saw that. Good work. The only reason I wanted WDS and FOG to work together was to leverage WDS’s handling of UEFI/BIOS identification. But the DHCP method is much more elegant and less resource intensive.

                                            I am glad that you got that working though. Options are valuable when doing IT work.

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