Unable to use FOG for PXE booting because of unresponsive menu

[george1421]

@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.

[quinniedid]

@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

[Tom Elliott]

@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)

[Tom Elliott]

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.

[george1421]

@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…

[quinniedid]

@Tom-Elliott @george1421 Moving those folders and running the installer again has resolved the issues. Thank you again!