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    • george1421G
      george1421 Moderator @Abuelika
      last edited by george1421

      @Abuelika I just had an idea on my commute into the office. I need your help to test something for the FOG Project. You will have to make this by your hands. If it works out we can make it easier for people to boot Mac via usb and keep the benefits of the FOG menus.

      Please do these steps

      1. Format a usb flash drive with fat32 that is at least 512MB in size.
      2. On that formatted usb flash drive create the following directory path EFI\BOOT (case shouldn’t matter, but use uppercase for this test).
      3. Take from the fog server’s /tftpboot directory ipxe.efi and copy it to the usb flash in EFI\BOOT directory.
      4. Rename ipxe.efi (on the usb drive) to BOOTX64.EFI
      5. Take from the fog server’s /tftpboot/i386-efi directory ipxe.efi and copy it to the usb flash in EFI\BOOT directory.
      6. Rename the i386 version of ipxe.efi to BOOTIA32.EFI
      7. Eject the usb flash drive
      8. Take that usb flash to a Mac and usb boot off from it.

      The hope is that you will get the FOG iPXE menu with full functionality with FOG and not the limited functions that you get with the current FOG usb booting.

      Please try this and let us know how/if it works.

      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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      • AbuelikaA
        Abuelika @george1421
        last edited by

        @george1421

        Hi,

        Boot from the USB, and displays the message initializing device and does not continue …

        Tnx George!

        GFG! ¬¬!

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        • george1421G
          george1421 Moderator @Abuelika
          last edited by

          @Abuelika Oh that is a bad results. That will also hurt our ability to join multicast sessions too since we need the iPXE menu to select the session to join. I will have to think of a new idea now… 😞

          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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          • AbuelikaA
            Abuelika @george1421
            last edited by

            @george1421 said in Mac OS Multicast deploy error:

            The hope is that you will get the FOG iPXE menu with full functionality with FOG and not the limited functions that you get with the current FOG usb booting.
            Please try this and let us know how/if it works.

            SOOOOOORRRRRYYYYY!!! GOOOD JOB!!!

            It was my mistake

            GFG! ¬¬!

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            • george1421G
              george1421 Moderator @Abuelika
              last edited by george1421

              @Abuelika OK, now I’m confused, the ipxe.efi idea works or no?

              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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              • AbuelikaA
                Abuelika @george1421
                last edited by

                @george1421

                The USB works and boots the complete menu.
                Now a helpdesk from my team, has gone to test the multi-session in a classroom

                GFG! ¬¬!

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                • george1421G
                  george1421 Moderator @Abuelika
                  last edited by

                  @Abuelika Very good, thank you for testing my idea. If you have success with muticasting please let me know and I will create a tutorial for creating this type of usb boot drive for just the Mac ICT admins to use.

                  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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                  • AbuelikaA
                    Abuelika @george1421
                    last edited by

                    @george1421 said in Mac OS Multicast deploy error:

                    Very good, thank you for testing my idea. If you have success with muticasting please let me know and I will create a tutorial for creating this type of usb boot drive for just the Mac ICT admins to use.

                    Thank you very much!!! 100% WORKING!!!

                    GFG! ¬¬!

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                    • george1421G
                      george1421 Moderator @Abuelika
                      last edited by

                      @Abuelika Very nice. I will work on the tutorial later today. Thank you for your help.

                      Can we also resolve this issue too?

                      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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                      • AbuelikaA
                        Abuelika @george1421
                        last edited by

                        @george1421

                        Yes Solved!

                        GFG! ¬¬!

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