Unable to get PXE menu?
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@Tom-Elliott No FOG menu again. Same thing as before. I’m uploading a video of what happened to provide some more screenshots…it gets stuck at configuring net (net0: macaddress)… then reboots
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@mikepel Well is your switch setup for STP? Seeing as it’s a separated switch and you’re setup is currently in “Isolated mode” can you simply disable STP?
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@Tom-Elliott I’ll try to get into the switch. I was told there isn’t a config on it, this might take some time to do.
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@mikepel What type of switch is it?
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@Tom-Elliott Its a Catalyst 2950. It was donated from an Air Force Base…so I’d hope it has a wiped config. Know of any Linux programs to console into switches? Is there a putty for linux?
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@mikepel there’s ssh. Console may require a windows system as I don’t know of any command based terminal access via console stuff. That’s not to say there aren’t any, I just don’t know of one off the top of my head.
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@Tom-Elliott Still working on getting into the config. Had to use an old XP laptop, only thing I could find with a serial port.
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It looked like it was a clean config, just to be sure I wiped it again. I don’t think its anything with the switch config…Maybe I should try to rebuild the FOG server from scratch again.
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@mikepel I don’t have the manual for that switch, but MANY cisco switches automatically enable stp by default.
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@Tom-Elliott haha ugh. okay I just put all the console cable stuff away. I did find a USB to console cable so I can use my main PC now at least. I’ll disable it if it’s on by default.
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Okay spanning-tree is disabled now…now I’m getting something different! TFTP timeout…
Here is the switch config…ImageServerSwitch#show run Building configuration... Current configuration : 1067 bytes ! version 12.1 no service pad service timestamps debug uptime service timestamps log uptime no service password-encryption ! hostname ImageServerSwitch ! enable secret 5 asd enable password asd ! ip subnet-zero ! ip ssh time-out 120 ip ssh authentication-retries 3 vtp domain westover vtp mode transparent ! ! spanning-tree mode pvst no spanning-tree optimize bpdu transmission spanning-tree extend system-id no spanning-tree vlan 1 ! ! ! ! interface FastEthernet0/1 ! interface FastEthernet0/2 ! interface FastEthernet0/3 ! interface FastEthernet0/4 ! interface FastEthernet0/5 ! interface FastEthernet0/6 ! interface FastEthernet0/7 ! interface FastEthernet0/8 ! interface FastEthernet0/9 ! interface FastEthernet0/10 ! interface FastEthernet0/11 ! interface FastEthernet0/12 ! interface GigabitEthernet0/1 ! interface GigabitEthernet0/2 ! interface Vlan1 no ip address no ip route-cache shutdown ! ip http server ! line con 0 exec-timeout 0 0 line vty 0 4 password asd login line vty 5 15 password asd login ! ! end -
@mikepel as you’re on a switch you need to enable an ip-helper to tell the switch to redirect dhcp requests to your fog server.
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@mikepel please try to post a photo of where the tftp timeout is occurring. If it’s during PXE it’s the iphelper thing, if it’s from iPXE it’s something else.
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@Tom-Elliott …that was in my OP! I know on SCCM we had to do that which is why I asked.
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ip address helper should point to the DHCP server (in my case the same server where FOG is running)?
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@mikepel Correct, but I’m still wanting to know WHERE the tftp timeout is coming from. Is it coming from iPXE (initializing) or is it coming from PXE with a PXE-E32 error?
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@Tom-Elliott PXE-E32 error.
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@mikepel Yep, then we need the ip-helper setup.
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That PXE-E32 error happened after i setup the IP-Helper (and before). I’m only a help desk tech, I very rarely deal with network switch configs so it might not be configured right. I set it for VLAN 1 and all switch ports are on VLAN 1. Is that okay? I will get a copy of the config in a few minutes…
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19b8JnbScEJ0SC7Nks5z-qFmX4s5nA5DmwQ/view?usp=sharing
