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Integrating PartedMagic in Fog 1.2.0

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    shaun
    last edited by Wayne Workman Jan 13, 2016, 6:27 PM Jan 13, 2016, 9:32 PM

    Hi All,
    Has anyone had any success geting parted magic to work via iPXE? Im having issues both wiht the ISO AND the PXE images failing during the boot process.
    I tried
    https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Include_any_ISO_in_the_FOG_Bootmenu#Other_Parameter_Options
    but there is no tftpboot/fog or tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg folders… little stumped here
    Ive gotten clonezilla to work which i found help from
    https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/4790/how-to-add-live-cd-iso-to-fog-1-2-on-ubuntu-12-04/29
    which seemed to need the UNION=OVERLAY piece added. Thanks @dustindizzle11.
    Thank you in advance for any insight.

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      Wayne Workman
      last edited by Wayne Workman Jan 13, 2016, 6:34 PM Jan 14, 2016, 12:32 AM

      What you’ve already found would have been what I would have suggested.

      If I could give you any advice, I’d say use NFS.

      Here’s a tutorial for network booting Ubuntu using NFS. Just substitute PartedMagic. The path for the kernel and init may be different, you’ll just have to find it - the menu entries for iPXE will be very similar to others found here around the forums, I imagine. http://www.howtogeek.com/61263/how-to-network-boot-pxe-the-ubuntu-livecd/

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        shaun
        last edited by Jan 14, 2016, 1:42 PM

        Thank you sir, i will try that.

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          shaun
          last edited by Jan 14, 2016, 3:31 PM

          Eh ive tried my best and it simply just fails trying a few different methods. Maybe PartedMagic cannot be booted in iPXE i guess, shoot i cannot even get it to boot now just goes to the fail and boots the hdd.
          :MENU
          menu
          item --gap – ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
          item CloneZilla64 CloneZilla64
          item PMagic2015 Pmagic2015
          item shell ipxe shell
          item return return to previous menu
          choose --default return --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

          :PMagic2015
          linux pmagic/partedmagic/pmagic/bzImage
          append root=/dev/nfs netboot=nfs nfsroot=<my server ip>:/tftpboot/pmagic/partedmagic/pmagic initrd=pmagic/partedmagic/pmagic/initrd.img,pmagic/partedmagic/pmagic/fu.img,pmagic/partedmagic/pmagic/m32.img,pmagic/partedmagic/pmagic/files.cgz
          boot || goto failed

          The NFS mount works and can view the directorys / folders… still sumped and confuzed… thank you for any advice in advance.

          goto start

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            Thiago
            last edited by Thiago Jan 15, 2016, 4:43 PM Jan 14, 2016, 4:21 PM

            Try this:

            :PMagic2015
            kernel http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/your-path-to-parted-magic/bzImage
            initrd http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/your-path-to-parted-magic/initrd.img
            imgargs bzImage edd=off noapic load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=791 sleep=0 loglevel=0 keymap=us
            boot || goto MENU

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              shaun @Thiago
              last edited by Jan 14, 2016, 9:56 PM

              @Thiago

              Thanks for the idea Thiago but that went belly up and right into windows startup.
              kernel http://${fog-ip}/tftpboot/pmagic/partedmagic/pmagic/bzImage
              initrd http://${fog-ip}/tftpboot/pmagic/partedmagic/pmagic/initrd.img

              is the relevant parts Im wondering if i should pull that tftpboot oudda there as its a nfs export?
              /tftpboot/pmagic/partedmagic/ *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure)

              Thank you for the ideas!

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                Wayne Workman @shaun
                last edited by Wayne Workman Jan 14, 2016, 9:59 PM Jan 15, 2016, 3:58 AM

                @shaun With a web browser, can you access these two files?

                Replace the x’s with your FOG IP address and plug these into a browser’s address bar. What do you see? What happens?

                http://x.x.x.x/tftpboot/pmagic/partedmagic/pmagic/bzImage
                http://x.x.x.x/tftpboot/pmagic/partedmagic/pmagic/initrd.img

                I think I know the answer already, but I’m trying to shove you in the right direction so you can figure it out on your own… look at @Thiago 's example again…

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                  shaun @Wayne Workman
                  last edited by Jan 15, 2016, 1:47 PM

                  @Wayne-Workman said:

                  @shaun With a web browser, can you access these two files?

                  Replace the x’s with your FOG IP address and plug these into a browser’s address bar. What do you see? What happens?

                  http://x.x.x.x/tftpboot/pmagic/partedmagic/pmagic/bzImage
                  http://x.x.x.x/tftpboot/pmagic/partedmagic/pmagic/initrd.img

                  I think I know the answer already, but I’m trying to shove you in the right direction so you can figure it out on your own… look at @Thiago 's example again…

                  Thank you for your patience gang, Yes it says the requested url does not exist on the server with 404 so i did create a link within /fog/service/ipxe/ and it came UP! Then failed…LOL failed to load fu.sqfs …sheesh… at least we are on the right track before drailing…

                  Well what ive done is the following:
                  :PMagic2015
                  kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/partedmagic/pmagic/bzImage
                  initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/partedmagic/pmagic/initrd.img <----
                  imgargs bzImage edd=off noapic load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=791 sleep=0 loglevel=0 keymap=us
                  boot || echo Failed to boot
                  prompt

                  Is where i want to change according to the sample_pxelinux.cfg with partedmagic is the following:

                  Boot the kernel and initramfs over PXE 32-bit.

                  LABEL pmagic32
                  LINUX pmagic/bzImage
                  INITRD pmagic/initrd.img,pmagic/fu.img,pmagic/m32.img,pmagic/files.cgz
                  APPEND edd=on vga=normal

                  Do i have to put multiple http://$(fog-ip)… after initrd??

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                    shaun @Wayne Workman
                    last edited by Jan 15, 2016, 2:40 PM

                    @Wayne-Workman

                    So what ive done so far:
                    -> Copied the mounted iso to a folder
                    -> chmod 777 the entire folder now located in /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/partedmagic
                    had the following:
                    :PMagic2015
                    kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/partedmagic/pmagic/bzImage
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/partedmagic/pmagic/initrd.img
                    imgargs bzImage edd=off noapic load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=791 sleep=0 loglevel=0 keymap=us
                    boot || echo Failed to boot
                    prompt
                    goto start

                    It would start to load then fail with
                    mount /dev/loop252 failed to find superblock
                    fu.sqfs failed to mount

                    Looked at the sample_pxelinux.cfg again from parted magic

                    Boot the kernel and initramfs over PXE 32-bit.

                    LABEL pmagic32
                    LINUX pmagic/bzImage
                    INITRD pmagic/initrd.img,pmagic/fu.img,pmagic/m32.img,pmagic/files.cgz
                    APPEND edd=on vga=normal

                    Tried to make that work:

                    :PMagic2015
                    kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/partedmagic/pmagic/bzImage
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/partedmagic/pmagic/initrd.img,http://$(fog-ip)/fog/service/ipxe/partedmagic/pmagic/fu.img,http://$(fog-ip)/fog/service/ipxe/partedmagic/pmagic/m32.img,http://$(fog-ip)/fog/service/ipxe/partedmagic/pmgaic/files/cgz
                    imgargs bzImage edd=off noapic load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=791 sleep=0 loglevel=0 keymap=us
                    boot || echo Failed to boot
                    prompt
                    goto start

                    Which then goes straight to Windows 7 startup…

                    Looked up the mount loop252 error and found looks like the kernel is trying to mount iso so got the pmagic pxe file and untarred int /fog/service/ipxe/

                    From their stanza.txt
                    DEFAULT pmagic32

                    LABEL pmagic32
                    LINUX pmagic/bzImage
                    INITRD pmagic/initrd.img,pmagic/fu.img,pmagic/m32.img,pmagic/files.cgz
                    APPEND edd=on vga=normal

                    First tried with:
                    :PMagic2015
                    kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/bzImage
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/initrd.img
                    imgargs bzImage edd=off noapic load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=791 sleep=0 loglevel=0 keymap=us max_loop=256 vmall
                    boot || echo Failed to boot
                    prompt
                    goto start

                    That still came up with failed to mount /dev/loop252 fu.sqfs so I changed it to:

                    :PMagic2015
                    kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/bzImage
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/initrd.img,http://$(fog-ip)/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/fu.img,http://$(fog-ip)/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/m32.img,http://$(fog-ip)/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/files.cgz
                    imgargs bzImage edd=on noapic load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=normal sleep=0 loglevel=0 keymap=us
                    boot || echo Failed to boot
                    prompt
                    goto start

                    Which fails and goes straight to windows 7 boot.

                    I guess it comes down to how do i add:
                    INITRD pmagic/initrd.img,pmagic/fu.img,pmagic/m32.img,pmagic/files.cgz
                    as a 1 liner??

                    This
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/initrd.img,http://$(fog-ip)/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/fu.img,http://$(fog-ip)/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/m32.img,http://$(fog-ip)/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/files.cgz

                    Fails.

                    Thanks for both your patience and help!

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                      shaun @shaun
                      last edited by Jan 15, 2016, 2:50 PM

                      @shaun

                      Aaand this fails and goes to windowsw 7 startup …
                      :PMagic2015
                      kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/bzImage
                      initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/initrd.img
                      initrd http://$(fog-ip)/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/fu.img
                      initrd http://$(fog-ip)/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/m32.img
                      initrd http://$(fog-ip)/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/files.cgz
                      imgargs bzImage edd=on noapic load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=normal sleep=0 loglevel=0 keymap=us max_loop=256 vmall
                      boot || echo Failed to boot
                      prompt
                      goto start

                      …eerrrrggg…

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                        Wayne Workman @shaun
                        last edited by Jan 15, 2016, 2:52 PM

                        @shaun ok… going to try to point you into the right direction.

                        Take copies of the init and kernel, and put just those in a web folder somewhere. Put the ISO into an NFS exported directory. /images is already exported. you could put it in something like /images/pmagic/YourIsoHere.iso

                        Doing those two things, and making changes as needed to the kernel and initrd paths, you next need to load the iso.

                        Look at the hirens boot cd example in the wiki. Here’s the lines that load and then cause the boot to happen.

                        set nfs_path /var/www/fog/ISO/15.04_64
                        imgargs vmlinuz.efi root=/dev/nfs boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=${fog-ip}:${nfs_path} ip=dhcp splash quiet – || read void
                        boot || read void
                        

                        Of course, that’s for hirens.

                        For this, if you’re using the already good to go /images directory as I suggested above, this might look something like:

                        set nfs_path /images/pmagic
                        imgargs bzimage root=/dev/nfs boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=${fog-ip}:${nfs_path} ip=dhcp splash quiet – || read void
                        boot || read void
                        

                        Also - we might not get this on the first try. And - it may be a good idea to ask the guys over at ipxe.org They are friendly and have helped me before. -> http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=5948

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                          shaun @Wayne Workman
                          last edited by Jan 15, 2016, 7:15 PM

                          @Wayne-Workman

                          Thanks very much for your patience and it did indeed lead me to the right cliff to jump off of.

                          set nfs_path /images/pmagic
                          kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/bzImage
                          initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/initrd.img
                          initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/files.cgz
                          initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/fu.img
                          initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/m32.img
                          imgargs bzImage root=/dev/nfs boot=live netboot=nfs nfsroot=${fog-ip}:${nfs_path} ip=dhcp edd=on noapic load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=normal sleep=0 loglevel=0 keymap=us splash quiet - || read void
                          boot || read void
                          prompt
                          goto start

                          Works! I had to move the inits around a bit so files had to come first then fu the m32 and also works in 64 as well. Thanks Thiago and Wayne!

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                            Wayne Workman @shaun
                            last edited by Wayne Workman Jan 17, 2016, 12:12 PM Jan 15, 2016, 7:15 PM

                            @shaun said:

                            @Wayne-Workman

                            Thanks very much for your patience and it did indeed lead me to the right cliff to jump off of.

                            set nfs_path /images/pmagic
                            kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/bzImage
                            initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/initrd.img
                            initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/files.cgz
                            initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/fu.img
                            initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/pmagic/m32.img
                            imgargs bzImage root=/dev/nfs boot=live netboot=nfs nfsroot=${fog-ip}:${nfs_path} ip=dhcp edd=on noapic load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=normal sleep=0 loglevel=0 keymap=us splash quiet - || read void
                            boot || read void
                            prompt
                            goto start

                            Works! I had to move the inits around a bit so files had to come first then fu the m32 and also works in 64 as well. Thanks Thiago and Wayne!

                            Tagging this for addition to the wiki

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                              Wayne Workman @shaun
                              last edited by Jan 15, 2016, 10:46 PM

                              @shaun What version of Parted Magic were you using, exactly?

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                                Wayne Workman @shaun
                                last edited by Wayne Workman Jan 17, 2016, 12:13 PM Jan 17, 2016, 6:13 PM

                                @shaun This has been added to the Wiki here: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Include_any_ISO_in_the_FOG_Bootmenu

                                I filled in the gaps that @shaun left out, because we still needed mounting and such and he didn’t include that. And because he didn’t include a specific parted magic version, I dated the content in the article itself so that hopefully future readers can google search and find the version it applies to.

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                                  shaun @Wayne Workman
                                  last edited by Jan 22, 2016, 7:09 PM

                                  @Wayne-Workman
                                  Hi Wayne it is PartedMagic_2015_11_13. Thanks again for the help.

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                                    shaun @Wayne Workman
                                    last edited by Jan 22, 2016, 7:13 PM

                                    @Wayne-Workman
                                    Hi Wayne, sorry been running around abit here lately for the mounting i am using nfs and in the exports:
                                    /images *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=1)
                                    Hopefully helps others out.

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