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    Unable to use FOG for PXE booting because of unresponsive menu

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    • george1421G
      george1421 Moderator @quinniedid
      last edited by

      @quinniedid Sorry for my lethargic response. I do see an issue with what you posted.

      At several key points your fog server IP address is not being published.

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      • george1421G
        george1421 Moderator @quinniedid
        last edited by george1421

        @quinniedid As you can see from my home fog-pi server

        #!ipxe
        set fog-ip 192.168.112.24
        set fog-webroot fog
        set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}
        cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386
        goto get_console
        :console_set
        colour --rgb 0x00567a 1 ||
        colour --rgb 0x00567a 2 ||
        colour --rgb 0x00567a 4 ||
        cpair --foreground 7 --background 2 2 ||
        goto MENU
        :alt_console
        cpair --background 0 1 ||
        cpair --background 1 2 ||
        goto MENU
        :get_console
        console --picture http://192.168.112.24/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80 && goto console_set || goto alt_console
        

        Lets start by looking under your FOG Configuration-> Settings-> TFTP Server. Make sure FOG_TFTP_HOST field lists the IP address of your fog server.

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        • Q
          quinniedid
          last edited by

          The fields are all populated in settings. I even clicked on save changes again and checked the file and it is still showing the same thing.

          0_1499727223747_d5f31eb9-8664-4bd7-bc19-61b614dc056f-image.png

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          • george1421G
            george1421 Moderator @quinniedid
            last edited by george1421

            @quinniedid OK there are two other places for the IP address to hide:

            In the fog settings page again under Web Server->FOG_WEB_HOST

            And then in the storage node configuration for the fog server -> IP Address.

            If those are populated then we might need to get the developers involved to tell us where that value comes from. But now that I thing about it, I would lay odds on the FOG_WEB_HOST not being populated.

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            • Q
              quinniedid
              last edited by

              @george1421 I think we found it!

              Is there supposed to be anything else populated in those fields?

              0_1499730156671_6f073313-d615-47da-a9a2-9f30d6dfebda-image.png

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              • george1421G
                george1421 Moderator @quinniedid
                last edited by

                @quinniedid Here is what I have, at least it might get you started:

                0_1499730511173_web_server.png

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                • Q
                  quinniedid
                  last edited by

                  @george1421 That was it!!!

                  Thank you so much for your time on this!!!

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                  • george1421G
                    george1421 Moderator @quinniedid
                    last edited by george1421

                    @quinniedid Thank you for sticking with me on this. I’m trying to take care of some honey-do projects the same time I’m “playing” on the computer. So my responses are a bit haphazard tonight.

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                    • Q
                      quinniedid
                      last edited by

                      @george1421 I have run into one more problem. I cannot image anything. This is the error that I am getting:

                      Could not select: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008001)
                      Could not boot: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008001)
                      Chainloading failed, hit’s for the iPXE shell

                      Any ideas?

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                      • george1421G
                        george1421 Moderator @quinniedid
                        last edited by george1421

                        @quinniedid said in Unable to use FOG for PXE booting because of unresponsive menu:

                        Any ideas?

                        Lots of ideas, none to make me a million dollars overnight though…

                        What system are you trying to pxe boot?

                        Is this device in uefi mode or bios (legacy mode)?

                        What exactly do you have set for dhcp option 67 {boot-file}?

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                        • Q
                          quinniedid
                          last edited by quinniedid

                          @george1421 This is the same PC’s that I have used before in the past to image, should be BIOS. For DHCP, I am using undionly.kpxe.

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                          • george1421G
                            george1421 Moderator @quinniedid
                            last edited by george1421

                            @quinniedid It would help if you posted a clear screen shot of the actual error taken with a mobile phone. The context of the error is almost as important as the actual error message.

                            My intuition is telling me that you are trying to send a bios boot kernel (undionly.kpxe) to a uefi system which is expecting ipxe.efi (or the other way around).

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                            • Q
                              quinniedid
                              last edited by quinniedid

                              @george1421 Apologies for the vague details. The menu comes up now and is able to boot to the first hard drive. It was not able to do that till yesterday which you helped me with resolving. Now the issue is after I select Deploy Image and login, I do get a list of all the images. It is not until I select an image to deploy that this message comes up.
                              0_1499785555024_rsz_1img_20170711_085830_li.jpg

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                              • george1421G
                                george1421 Moderator @quinniedid
                                last edited by george1421

                                @quinniedid I’m getting the idea you have a botched install.

                                Looking at the screen shot I see bzImage (OS kernel) is transferred ok, but I don’t see init.zx (virtual hard drive) being sent to the target computer. They need to be passed in pairs.

                                I wonder if you are missing other values in the fog configuration page for the tftp server contains the correct info (specifically the *Image values)

                                0_1499786028038_fog_settings.png

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                                  quinniedid
                                  last edited by

                                  @george1421 Here are the settings that are currently configured.

                                  0_1499786213360_Capture3.PNG

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                                  • george1421G
                                    george1421 Moderator @quinniedid
                                    last edited by

                                    @quinniedid Has this computer been registered, or are you trying to register it right now?

                                    If you are trying to register it, (stick with me here) manually register this host and then schedule an image capture or image deploy. It doesn’t matter we will not do either. Once the task is schedule, use the url I gave you before, this time use the mac address of the target computer and key that into a browser (you can leave the target computer off for this test). Post the results of the browser query here. As compared to the first time you did this setup, the results from this one should be very small about 5 or 6 lines long. I want to ensure what the client is being told to do.

                                    Also can you confirm the target computer is in bios (legacy mode) and not uefi. If its in uefi mode you will need to disable secure boot and then change your ipxe boot kernel sent by dhcp option 67.

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                                    • Q
                                      quinniedid
                                      last edited by

                                      @george1421 Here is the results of a manual registration and deploy:

                                      #!ipxe
                                      set fog-ip 10.86.96.177
                                      set fog-webroot fog
                                      set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}
                                      kernel bzImage32 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 web=10.86.96.177/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 acpi=off mac=00:26:55:3f:14:45 ftp=10.86.96.177 storage=10.86.96.177:/images/ storageip=10.86.96.177 osid=9 irqpoll hostname=TEST-PC chkdsk=0 img=DISTWIN10 imgType=n imgPartitionType=all imgid=1 imgFormat=0 PIGZ_COMP=-9 hostearly=1 type=down acpi=off
                                      imgfetch init_32.xz
                                      boot
                                      
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                                      • Tom ElliottT
                                        Tom Elliott @george1421
                                        last edited by

                                        @george1421 Can you edit the TFTP_PXE_KERNEL_DIR so it reads as /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe instead of /var/www/html/fogservice/ipxe (missing / between fog and service)

                                        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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                                        • Tom ElliottT
                                          Tom Elliott
                                          last edited by

                                          Also, please let’s make sure the links are all correct.

                                          Would you mind doing:

                                          mv /var/www/fog /var/www/fog_orig
                                          mv /var/www/html/fog /var/www/html/fog_orig
                                          

                                          Rerun the installer. This should help ensure the links are created/setup properly. It nearly sounds like it can’t find the right links.

                                          For simplicity, run the installer with the -y argument so things will be more automated as the fact the tftp server settings were all blank leads me to think the installer wasn’t performed fully.

                                          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)

                                          Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

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                                          • george1421G
                                            george1421 Moderator @Tom Elliott
                                            last edited by

                                            @Tom-Elliott I can/will/did, but how the hell did that / go missing and thing still work? Oh well I guess that is a discussion for another thread…

                                            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!

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