PXE Booting: Fog Menu Flashes for a second then boots HDD

[neildaemond]

I Just installed Fog 0.32 to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server. The only settings I changed so far are:

• changed bind-address in /etc/mysql/my.conf to my IP
• added a password to /var/www/fog/commons/config.php since my mysql root password was set.

accessing 192.168.1.130/fog/management works ok.

I have my client PCs connect to the router via switches and my Ubunter server is also connected to the router with static IP of 192.168.1.130. I installed with the following settings:

     Distro: Ubuntu
     Installation Type: Normal Server
     Server IP Address: 192.168.1.130
     DHCP router Address: 192.168.1.1
     DHCP DNS Address: 192.168.1.1
     Interface: eth0
     Using FOG DHCP: 1
     Internationalization: 1

Now, I enabled Network Booting on my Client PC, but when I boot, the Fog graphical menu flashes for a second, then skips to the next boot device. I read that I should maybe try booting in text mode, but I wasn’t sure how. Any suggestions?

thanks in advance

[neildaemond]

SOLVED!

In /tfptboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

I changed
[CODE]TIMEOUT 30[/CODE]

to
[CODE]TIMEOUT 3000[/CODE]

it appears that that timeout value could be in miliseconds~ and only defaulted to 30

EDIT: setting to 3000 gave me 300 seconds, so in 10ths of a second

[Lache]

TIMEOUT of 30 or 3 seconds is probably what you want. If you hit the down arrow while the fog menu is displayed, it will not move on to the secondary boot device. A short display time for the PXE menu, insures that the startup process is not delayed too long.