Unable to get PXE menu?

[Tom Elliott]

@mikepel Is it working now?

[mikepel]

@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

[Tom Elliott]

@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?

[mikepel]

@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.

[Tom Elliott]

@mikepel What type of switch is it?

[mikepel]

@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?

[Tom Elliott]

@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.

[mikepel]

@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.

[mikepel]

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.

[Tom Elliott]

@mikepel I don’t have the manual for that switch, but MANY cisco switches automatically enable stp by default.

[mikepel]

@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.

[mikepel]

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

[Tom Elliott]

@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.

[Tom Elliott]

@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.

[mikepel]

@Tom-Elliott …that was in my OP! I know on SCCM we had to do that which is why I asked.

[mikepel]

@mikepel said:

helper

I will in a minute. Setting the IP helper and will try

[mikepel]

ip address helper should point to the DHCP server (in my case the same server where FOG is running)?

[Tom Elliott]

@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?

[mikepel]

@Tom-Elliott PXE-E32 error.

[Tom Elliott]

@mikepel Yep, then we need the ip-helper setup.