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      Viper79 @george1421
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      @george1421
      Thanks for the reply - The thing here is that I have 2 vm’s - The original one upgraded to 1.3.5 and the Centos one is a fresh 1.3.5 with just the database and images copied across. If I just concentrate on the upgraded one (ubuntu) the 2 issues are that after going to 1.3.5 the advanced menu no longer works with the Could not boot - result too large" “Chainloading failed…” - and the fact the upgrade seemed to wipe out subfolders in the ipxe dir…

      I did manage to get passed the “result too large” error by recreating the advanced menu list with starting form the line “Menu” - It would seem to me that there are change’s in 1.3.5 that dont mesh if you have previous populated advanced menu items prior to the upgrade - What was obvious to me what that there seemed to be some enhancements to the menus items in 1.3.5 which may explain the issue - Of course this also could just be something in my environment…Im a software engineer so im fully aware this could be user issue… 🙂

      Thanks!

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        george1421 Moderator @Viper79
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        @Viper79 said in Advanced Menu:

        rror by recreating the advanced menu list with starting form the line “Menu”

        How exactly are you doing this. Is this via the fog web management or via patching the php code (that may have been required with the earlier versions of fog).

        Also what version did you upgrade from?

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          Viper79 @george1421
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          @george1421
          Hey George - from the advanced menu and this was all configured in 1.20 then upgraded to 1.3.5 - I have quite a long list of around 10 items - I use the advanced menu for WINPE booting as well as other useful ISO’s - very useful! - I did notice more options for the advanced menu in 1.3.5…
          Thanks

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          • george1421G
            george1421 Moderator @Viper79
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            @Viper79 ok now we know what you are coming from, the answer is yes the ipxe menu subsystem has changed quite a bit. It is now managed via the web gui. You can do the same exact things, but its managed differently.

            In fog 1.3.x you create new menu entries and populate the parameters and then the last option box is to define what menu you want this new menu entry to be displayed on. The process is a little tedious if you have a lot of custom menu entries. But what you create one or two it goes pretty quick.

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              Viper79 @george1421
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              @george1421
              Thanks I figured as much! - the only other concern for me was the update wiping out my customs ISO’s!.
              Thanks

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                Viper79 @george1421
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                @george1421
                So is it fair to say any Advanced Menu customization will cause issues if configured in previous versions and upgrading to 1.3.x?

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                  george1421 Moderator @Viper79
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                  @Viper79 well the answer really depends on how extensive the previous advanced menus were.

                  The other issue about wiping out your iso, that is something new. I’m not aware that the upgrade scripts will wipe out the ipxe directory. But I’ve been on something more that 1.2.0 stable for almost 30 months now. I can tell you my recommendation would be to not place your custom stuff in the fog directory structure for exactly this reason.

                  In my case I created a new top level directory for my iso images (i.e. /var/www/html/iso which is right next to /var/www/html/fog and is considerably shorter than the full path to the ipxe boot menu of /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe).

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                    Viper79 @george1421
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                    @george1421
                    This approach makes sense! This should be filed under a doc change for best practices when booting from local custom iso’s! 🙂

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                    • Tom ElliottT
                      Tom Elliott
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                      For some help in regards to your lost ISO’s from the updated server, you should find them sitting in /home folder.

                      The /var/www/fog get’s moved out and because of this we typically prefer people with custom iso’s to use the document root so they don’t have their iso’s removed.

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                      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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                        Viper79 @Tom Elliott
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                        @Tom-Elliott
                        Alas they are now found! Always read the doc’s! File this under user error 🙂
                        Thanks Again - Fast and great support.

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                        • Tom ElliottT
                          Tom Elliott
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                          Glad to help. I’m going to guess the “error” you were seeing was simply it couldn’t use those files to boot from.

                          Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG! Get in contact with me (chat bubble in the top right corner) if you want to join in.

                          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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