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    • cnewman402C
      cnewman402
      last edited by cnewman402

      For example instead of using Bitdefender, if I want to add in AVG as an option.

      I’ve been reading on the whole memdisk and ipxe iso booting at reverse engineered and ipxe. I see the inefficiencies, and read about why. Really what I’m trying to accomplish is to change from using E2B (Easy2Boot - USB) as an option because its not efficient when working with larger amounts of workstations. I apologize in advance I have not even imaged a workstation yet with FOG. I will Monday when I return to the office.

      So in the wiki I see the DBAN entry. I really need to try this before I understand it, but:

      
      mkdir /iso
      mkdir /var/www/html/dban
      wget -O /iso/dban.iso http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/dban/dban/dban-2.3.0/dban-2.3.0_i586.iso
      mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/dban.iso /var/www/html/dban 
      
      

      So can I use this as a general guide on how to boot iso’s and is it really even efficient?

      I spent some of my weekend standing up a FOG server, and really havent got to test it yet other than booting a blank VM on vmware to see the results. Thanks in advance.

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        Quazz Moderator
        last edited by

        The thing is, not all iso are created equal. With some of them you’ll be able to do it easily and perfectly, others just plain won’t work and so on.

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          Sebastian Roth Moderator
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          @cnewman402 Quazz is absolutely right. ISOs are different and a lot of them need to be handled differently. See the different parameters for Hirens and Bitdefender here: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Include_any_ISO_in_the_FOG_Bootmenu

          With most ISOs you can find information on the internet on how to extract and boot those. Give it a try or let us know which ISO exactly you are trying to boot so we might be able to help.

          Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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          • Wayne WorkmanW
            Wayne Workman @cnewman402
            last edited by

            @cnewman402 The steps you posted are only for getting the dban iso onto the fog server. You’re not done there, FOG needs configured.

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            • cnewman402C
              cnewman402
              last edited by cnewman402

              Test and trials this morning on iso’s. I think I need to understand the menu entries, more specifically the parameters, and if they are always mandatory?
              If so can I utilize memdisk in an entry?
              Do I need to manually place a copy of memdisk in the directory or iso?

              (Linux noob) 🙂

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              • Wayne WorkmanW
                Wayne Workman @cnewman402
                last edited by

                @cnewman402 Depends. Of course it’s mandatory to have an entry, but the parameters of such can be modified sometimes. Please post a screen shot of what you have.

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                • cnewman402C
                  cnewman402
                  last edited by

                  How far Ive gotten:

                  1_1470585492380_avg2lsR.PNG 0_1470585492377_avg1.PNG

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                  • Wayne WorkmanW
                    Wayne Workman @cnewman402
                    last edited by Wayne Workman

                    @cnewman402 You need parameters.
                    You need to figure out where the kernel is on the ISO, and specify it. I don’t know where it is, but normally it ends with a .bzi extension.

                    Two files that stick out for kernel and init are vmlinuz and initrd.lzm that I see in the picture.

                    I don’t know if this will work (it’s just a guess), but put these in the parameters section:

                    :AVG
                    kernel http://${fog-ip}/avg/isolinux/vmlinuz
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/avg/isolinux/boot.cat
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/avg/isolinux/initrd.lzm
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/avg/isolinux/ldlinux.c32
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/avg/isolinux/libutil.c32
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/avg/isolinux/reboot.c32
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/avg/isolinux/syslinux.png
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/avg/isolinux/f1.msg
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/avg/isolinux/isolinux.bin
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/avg/isolinux/libcom32.c32
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/avg/isolinux/syslinux.cfg
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/avg/isolinux/vesamenu.c32
                    imgargs vmlinuz boot=live 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
                    

                    –EDIT–
                    updated the image args.

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                    • cnewman402C
                      cnewman402 @cnewman402
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                      • george1421G
                        george1421 Moderator @cnewman402
                        last edited by

                        @cnewman402 the grab entries is a starting point.

                        I would try to boot the iso directly first. If that doesn’t work then dig into the iso and extract its content to a directory on the fog server and then checkout the syslinux config file or the grub config file

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                        • cnewman402C
                          cnewman402
                          last edited by

                          Im starting to see how the entries are created. Thank you for pointing out each bootable image is unique. I’ll continue to test and see how the different images work. Im pretty new to Linux, with just basic experience from working at a webhost company for a while.

                          Is it possible to use memdisk with iso’s in this build or is it mandatory to extract and build entry into each one?

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                          • george1421G
                            george1421 Moderator @cnewman402
                            last edited by

                            @cnewman402 I did write a tutorial a bit ago about pxe booting a winpe disk that shows two examples. While its a bit off point of what you are doing right now it does show you the steps.
                            https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6284/booting-mdt-2013-litetouch-with-fog

                            I also wrote one that shows how to boot the windows setup via a pxe boot.
                            https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7765/pxe-booting-into-ms-windows-7-setup

                            Couple that with the FOG Wiki that Sebastian referenced
                            https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Include_any_ISO_in_the_FOG_Bootmenu

                            That should get you started. Now understand each iso is different. The ones that are based on linux typically will have instructions on the provider web site on how to pxe boot them.

                            With that information you should be able to build your pxe boot menus nicely with the fog management gui.

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                              Quazz Moderator @cnewman402
                              last edited by

                              @cnewman402 By the way, you don’t (and shouldn’t) put the item identifier :AVG (or similar) in parameters field, FOG will automatically generate the item name based on the Menu Item field (so make sure that one has no spaces or special characters to avoid potential issues)

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                                xfirero @Sebastian Roth
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                                @Sebastian-Roth I want to boot from Windows 7 iso:

                                :MENU
                                menu
                                item --gap – ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
                                item windows Install Windows
                                choose --default windows target && goto ${target}
                                :windows
                                menu
                                item Win7AIK_EN Windows7_32
                                item shell ipxe shell
                                item return Return to Main Menu
                                choose --default Win7_32 target && goto ${target}

                                :Win7AIK_EN
                                initrd http://192.168.1.9/fog/service/ipxe/iso/Win7AIK_EN.iso
                                chain memdisk iso raw ||
                                goto MENU

                                :shell
                                shell ||
                                goto MENU
                                :return
                                chain http://192.168.1.9/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} ||
                                prompt
                                goto MENU
                                autoboot
                                …
                                But client hangs at “Loading Boot Sector…booting…” during boot.

                                It is a “Solved” question https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/5521/add-to-advanced-boot-menu-windows-7-iso but I can’t find anything.

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                                  Quazz Moderator @xfirero
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                                  @xfirero Please check https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7765/pxe-booting-into-ms-windows-7-setup

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                                  • george1421G
                                    george1421 Moderator @xfirero
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                                    @xfirero That way won’t work (as you noticed). Windows will look for a cdrom (hardware) if you do it that way.

                                    Review this tutorial
                                    https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7765/pxe-booting-into-ms-windows-7-setup

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                                      xfirero @Quazz
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                                      @Quazz 10x

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                                        xfirero @george1421
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                                        @george1421 10x

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                                          BedCruncher
                                          last edited by

                                          @cnewman402
                                          Check out what I have done in my server with this iPXE boot menu. I’ve got quite a few ISO’s booting on my setup using memdisk.

                                          :dban
                                          menu DBAN Nuke Menu
                                          item autonuke AutoNuke DoD 3-Pass
                                          item zero AutoNuke 1-Pass Zero Wipe
                                          item choose-disk Single Disk Selection
                                          item return Back to top menu...
                                          item
                                          choose --default return --timeout 10000 target && goto ${target}
                                          :autonuke
                                          kernel http://${fog-ip}/dban/dban.bzi nuke="dwipe --autonuke" silent vga=785
                                          boot || goto failed
                                          :zero
                                          kernel http://${fog-ip}/dban/dban.bzi nuke="dwipe --autonuke --method zero" silent vga=785
                                          boot || goto failed
                                          :choose-disk
                                          kernel http://${fog-ip}/dban/dban.bzi nuke="dwipe" silent vga=785
                                          boot || goto failed
                                          :return
                                          chain ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} || prompt goto MENU
                                          :WHDD
                                          kernel http://${fog-ip}/whdd/whdd.bzi
                                          initrd http://${fog-ip}/whdd/initramfs
                                          boot
                                          :HDT
                                          initrd http://${fog-ip}/hdt/hdt.iso
                                          chain http://${fog-ip}/hdt/memdisk iso raw
                                          boot
                                          :AVG
                                          initrd http://${fog-ip}/avg/avg.iso
                                          chain http://${fog-ip}/avg/memdisk iso raw
                                          boot
                                          :BreakIn
                                          initrd http://${fog-ip}/breakin/breakin.iso
                                          chain http://${fog-ip}/breakin/memdisk iso raw
                                          boot
                                          
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