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      ipxefoguser last edited by

      Hello y’all. I love this project and im trying to do something here mostly of POC and to impress myself. I have booted my system into Ipxe which allows connect to pxe servers via http. I get ipxe to connect to my cloud server but thats it nothing happens after it. I wonder if i need to pick a specific directory or port. I am using HTTP maybe it needs to be tftp. I am not sure please let me know how to make this work.

      thanks all

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        Wayne Workman @george1421 last edited by

        @george1421 that’s what I told him too.

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          george1421 Moderator @ipxefoguser last edited by

          @ipxefoguser said in IPXE boot to fog cloud server:

          I made the ipxe usb drive boot from the ipxe site. Maybe there is a different version but i certainly didnt see anything else.

          while I know there was some additional discussions in this thread that I haven’t got to just yet, but this is the problem. You need to use the FOG iPXE files from the fog server, your ipxe files are missing the fog configuration scripts that are embedded into the fog delivered ipxe files.

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            Wayne Workman @ipxefoguser last edited by

            @ipxefoguser Welcome. When I post stuff, it’s both for the OP (you) and for future readers too, hence all the documentation links.

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              ipxefoguser @Wayne Workman last edited by

              @wayne-workman
              I really appreciate all your help over the thread. Sadly this machine has a lot of issues in booting except for the latest linux. I only managed to get debian 10 pre release and gentoo to run. So FOG is probably gonna take a while. The issue is around it recognizing the internal harddrive otherwise it just skips over it on the boot screen and choses the usb drive. I looked around and it seems to be a linux kernel issue that got resolved only in october or so release

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                Wayne Workman last edited by

                Documentation for kernel update:
                https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Kernel_Update

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                  Sebastian Roth Moderator last edited by

                  @ipxefoguser You can update the kernel in the FOG web UI. Go to FOG Configuration -> Kernel Update

                  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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                    ipxefoguser @Sebastian Roth last edited by

                    @sebastian-roth bingo and it has sorta worked but the issue is whatever kernel fog uses to do that system registration is just too old for this brand new machine and it misses the harddisk entirely. This has happened when installing locally as well. So idk what core system y’all use but we need to update it to the most recent

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                      ipxefoguser last edited by

                      @wayne-workman said in IPXE boot to fog cloud server:

                      https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Modifying_existing_DHCP_server_to_work_with_FOG

                      well now my issue again seem to be ipxe since i cant get it to get an ip no matter what i do but thats not FOG. Like I said i wanted to know the directory where files are stored on log and where the scripts are etc because those were not listed anywhere that was part of confusion

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                        Sebastian Roth Moderator last edited by

                        @ipxefoguser You might be able to modify this part of FOG by moving the default.ipxe script to the webserver directory. sudo cp /tftpboot/default.ipxe /var/www

                        Then you should be able to access that file via HTTP: http://54.162.252.75/default.ipxe and also chainload to it: chain http://54.162.252.75/default.ipxe

                        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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                          Sebastian Roth Moderator last edited by

                          @ipxefoguser I think I start understanding what you are trying to do here. You have FOG installed on a publicly accessible server (cloud server) and want to image clients through this. It’s not what FOG is made for but I think it can be used like this.

                          You should be able to chainload the FOG iPXE script like this: chain tftp://54.162.252.75/default.ipxe (but I think the TFTP port is not open on your server as I just tried this and got a timeout)

                          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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                            ipxefoguser @Wayne Workman last edited by

                            @wayne-workman
                            actually it went through fine now. The last issue i have is that it kernel panics once it boots but idk if thats a local hardware issue or part of the server. The key here was to know where to point to the fog php page

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                            • Wayne Workman
                              Wayne Workman @ipxefoguser last edited by

                              @ipxefoguser said in IPXE boot to fog cloud server:

                              i got the boot screen but it kept looping

                              Most likely this problem would go away if you set dhcp to point to the fog instance - which would cause the target system to use the IPXE binaries built & shipped with fog.

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                                Wayne Workman last edited by

                                @Moderators @ipxefoguser change the default login credentials for the fog server please - anyone can log in with the defaults.

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                                  ipxefoguser @Wayne Workman last edited by

                                  @wayne-workman said in IPXE boot to fog cloud server:

                                  https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Modifying_existing_DHCP_server_to_work_with_FOG

                                  actually when i pointed the url to x.x.x.x/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php i got the boot screen but it kept looping. After that it started to time out and now all it does is time out. So im closer but i dont know what else im missing. I can access it fine via a browswer

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                                    Wayne Workman @ipxefoguser last edited by Wayne Workman

                                    @ipxefoguser if the fog instance is all default and you’ve opened it to the world for inbound TCP 0.0.0.0/0 on all ports, then there is nothing wrong with the fog server.

                                    You don’t need any pxe usb device to use fog. The problem is you have not configured dhcp options 66 and 67. Please see this:
                                    https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Modifying_existing_DHCP_server_to_work_with_FOG
                                    Those dhcp options are done on the local network, not the aws dhcp options.

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                                      ipxefoguser @Wayne Workman last edited by

                                      @wayne-workman
                                      on the aws server all ports are open. When i used the prebuilt ipxe test environment it works fine. My guess is something is wrong with the fog server but i used the guide that i linked to before and it doesnt provide anymore details

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                                        ipxefoguser @george1421 last edited by

                                        @george1421

                                        i havent made any changes from stock at all. I dont know what you mean by dhcp option 67. I made the ipxe usb drive boot from the ipxe site. Maybe there is a different version but i certainly didnt see anything else.

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                                          Sebastian Roth Moderator last edited by Sebastian Roth

                                          @ipxefoguser What does this have to do with FOG at all?

                                          The iPXE command chain needs an URL pointing to something it can actually chainload. What exactly are you trying to chainload? A kernel? chain http://54.162.252.75/bzImage Or just another iPXE script served via HTTP? chain http://54.162.252.75/script.ipxe

                                          What exactly are you trying to achieve? What on the cloud server do you want to chainload?

                                          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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                                            george1421 Moderator @ipxefoguser last edited by george1421

                                            @ipxefoguser Can you tell me precisely what you have configured for dhcp option 67?

                                            While that looks like an ipxe boot banner, why is it dropping you to an ipxe command prompt? At this point the fog custom built iPXE kernel should take over. My intuition is telling me something else is going on here than a normal fog ipxe boot.

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