PXE boot hanging on HP Compaq Pro 4300 SFF PC + Nuc
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Re: PXE boot hanging on HP Compaq Pro 4300 SFF PC
I have a bit of a strange problem.
I pushed out FOG 1.4.4 on Ubuntu 14.04LTS w/PXE without any issues.
I am able to PXE boot on a VM on the same host. But when I try to PXE boot HP Compaq 4300 SFF PC or a NUC I can get to the menu but I when I try to register (Quick or Normal) I get to the point where it says "Attempting to Register host… And then I get an error has been detected.
I’ve tested with 3 HP Pro 4300 and 2 Intel NUCs.
I would greatly appreciate all of your help.
Thank you
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@joesay Can you please take a picture of the error and post it here.
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Yes sir - Here are the two screen I initially get and then the error - Thanks for your help.
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@joesay Something went sideways when you tried to upload your pictures. I can say a clear screen shot taken with a mobile phone will help set the context of the error.
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@joesay can we get a screen shot of the last picture with the entire kernel parameters.
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@joesay We really need to see the enter screen for the last one.
Also have you run the hardware compatibility test (from the pxe boot menu) on these hardwares?
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@george1421 Will do - Give me 5 mins
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@joesay It also looks like you need to sync that monitor with the computer. since the image we need to see is actually off the left edge of the monitor.
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@sebastian-roth Done - Thank you again for all of your help + feedback.
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@joesay This looks like its passing the tests.
Just for the sake of argument (because we’ve seen a rash of this issue lately) can you place a dumb (unmanaged) switch between the building switch and the pxe booting computer and see if allows you to register? I’m seriously doubting my self on this one, but we need to rule it out.
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@joesay While that is a very nice picture, what does that show us?
The idea of the dumb switch is that if your building switch has spanning tree enabled it may cut off your network connection at an unexpected time. The dumb switch will keep the building switch link port from seeing the wink as the FOS engine boots.
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@george1421 Same thing
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@joesay OK we can then rule out spanning tree (networking infrastructure) from causing this.
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@joesay Ok reviewing your pictures of the network information check (2) the ethernet adapter should have an IP address listed for eth0. I just confirmed on my dev box. Its seeing the mac address, but its not seeing the IP address.
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@george1421 -LMAO- I know what were trying to accomplish
, I just wanted to show you the image to show you what I was doing. Saying done and showing something was actually done are two completely different things.Reaganomics - Trust, but verify
I appreciate you help - Its a great project - If I can get this work work I will support it moving forward - Thanks again
