IPXE Issues
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first thing i’m going to recommend is that you upgrade to fog version 1.4.0. so many many things have been fixed or improved.
have you migrated your images and database info from the old server to the new? if you get the new server working, will you need the old one at all?
quick and dumb solution for a lot of your issues: put a copy of the default.ipxe file from the new server in the /tftpboot folder of your FOG 0.32 server so that it can always be found and loaded. that file just loads the next file from http. it doesn’t technically need to be on the new server.
oh, and btw, your images didn’t load
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Does your FOG server also function as DHCP server?
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Sorry, should have included that. One of our Windows servers handle dhcp.
I tried to update to 1.40 and it went through most of the installation ok, but it failed at the very end connecting to the database and then the webui wouldn’t load (The page isn’t working. Currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500). I was reading about php5 vs php7 and assumed there was something in the upgrade from 5 to 7 that caused the webui not to work. I took a snapshot of our server before upgrading so was able to rollback to 1.30RC 10.
That was going to be my next issue that I was going to post. Just for kicks and grins I created a brand new Fog Server and installed 1.40. The install went fine, the webpage loaded , but I still had the same issue booting to default.ipxe with the undionly.kpxe boot file.
I have not migrated all of our images and database yet. That is on my list of things to do this summer. I wanted to get the new server working first. Once I get this working, I do not believe we would need the old server.
Sorry about the images. I can see them in my post, but I am not sure how to make them show up for everyone else. Here are links to them. Can you see these?
Picture 1: Failing using the old server address
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/v8XwHa7EvGmlAc-9NqToHtVtsfdfcbDoKR-Q-y0feAsv0D-ahsZHipQqqP77P5y2BJ1WeycTgJyMFs4SpaqKDG64f-YfxHhxPAY6=w1920-h941-rwPicture 2: Failing with undionly.kpxe.INTEL with 5 “dots”
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/iJWYg7W-TOIvJDVcCRDWuGBFcQRXxDrxpyFf3WfgxGJxiZl8cVd-PVGSSLde3PSz15sHYOZeq9DhzT4z6YIFs-n0YsobzVgoISkH=w1920-h941-rwPicture 3: Working undionly.kpxe.INTEL
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/TepDSUE2fgfP3X-73oCdM3RhF9frvxi32xkRI1vTmAzG7ocUjHEeuBxYnjeEEp0PiJ3vTeoVdWs9wEHFSDy4OQRZOoG2fFnMnNba=w1920-h941-rwI will try copying the default.ipxe file to the old server this afternoon and report back.
Thanks!
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Your client does not have permission to get URL /v8XwHa7EvGmlAc-9NqToHtVtsfdfcbDoKR-Q-y0feAsv0D-ahsZHipQqqP77P5y2BJ1WeycTgJyMFs4SpaqKDG64f-YfxHhxPAY6=w1920-h941-rw from this server.(Client IP address: <retracted>) Forbidden That’s all we know. -
3rd time’s the charm…try these:
Picture 1: Failing using the old server address
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6yrqHh_joc2d20tWEZzdWcwMVBhckk4V1dZb0Z4MlVvMkprPicture 2: Failing with undionly.kpxe.INTEL with 5 “dots”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6yrqHh_joc2aENyMnJtRE16aFE/view?usp=sharingPicture 3: Working undionly.kpxe.INTEL
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6yrqHh_joc2WnBhWUdEemFIQVNqZ1dybzk4RTlOeFFmSENn -
@jaoyer those worked. any luck with default.ipxe?
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Copying the file over has worked consistently the last 5 times I booted a test machine, so I am fairly certain that that works. However, I am still concerned why it is pointing at the old server. It is my intention to decommission our old server at some point, and am afraid that it will still look to the old server for the default.ipxe file. To test this, I took our old fog server down so that it was completely shut off and booted my test machine . It was still looking for the the default.ipxe file on our old server even though it was down and it eventually timed out.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6yrqHh_joc2bWdYWkZobTlHSmV3TXQyNk9IcklnRG5YLTZv
Is there any cache or anything that I have to clear out on our switches?
How does the “next-server” part of the script work? Is it something as simple as giving the new server an address that comes before the old server?
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@jaoyer whatever is serving out options 66/67 dhcp options is providing the next-server address.
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So option 66/67 of the DHCP server are set to point at the New fog server?
The Old fogserver’s IP Address in the 66 option would cause the problem. YOu would need to update the option 66 to point at the new fog server.
What’s the contents of:
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Option 66 is set to the new server
Option 67 I have set to either undionly.kpxe or undionly.kpxe.INTEL (I’ve tested both).
Cat returns:#!ipxe
cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param platform ${platform}
param product ${product}
param manufacturer ${product}
param ipxever ${version}
param filename ${filename}
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:bootme
chain http://10.40.22.67/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php##params -
@jaoyer So is that the global options for options 66/67? Is it possible your lan is using “scoped” options to point lans where to get their options 66/67?
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I think that fixed it. I do have split scope dhcp setup on two servers, and only changed the options on one of them. I changed them in both and it seems to be working fine now.
Feel free to call me an idiot
As far as the updating issue going from 1.30RC10 to 1.40 (detailed in my 2nd response), should I create new thread?
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@jaoyer Did you run the installer as
sudo ./installfog.sh?I might suggest rerunning the installer after gaining root first through
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@jaoyer said in IPXE Issues:
As far as the updating issue going from 1.30RC10 to 1.40 (detailed in my 2nd response), should I create new thread?
Yes.
