Create UEFI ISO and prepare Surface go deployement.

[TheDiskDrive]

Hello,

Today is the D-day, i’m trying to deploy my image and i run into some error, i’m unable to multicast my image with the USB drive.

When i multi cast i got this error

Fatal Error: unknow request type :: Null

Kernel Variables and settings:

Boot_Image=/boot/bzImage loglevel=4 initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 keymap=fr web=10.X.X.XX/fog boottype=usb consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4

I can only Deploy or Capture my image. I have 10 hosts in my tablet group and when i use the deploy task i had invalid storage group error.

so how to make a multicast deployment using usb drive ? ( i think is a grub parameter to add on the menu entry ? )

thank you !

[george1421]

@TheDiskDrive said in Create UEFI ISO and prepare Surface go deployement.:

Fatal Error: unknow request type :: Null
Kernel Variables and settings:

Sorry I didn’t see this til now. The issue with the unknown user request is listed in the caveats. You MUST schedule the task in FOG BEFORE you select option 1 from the menu.

[george1421]

@TheDiskDrive said in Create UEFI ISO and prepare Surface go deployement.:

so how to make a multicast deployment using usb drive ? ( i think is a grub parameter to add on the menu entry ? )

Originally this wasn’t possible. I think there was some kernel parameter changes that now make it possible. I have not tested this feature as of now.

[TheDiskDrive]

@george1421 i have this error even when i created the multicast task.

when i create my multicast task i do this:

I select the computer group, click basic task and select multicast task and select “check Schedule instant”.

then i power on my computer and i have the fatal error unknow request type error after the machine got their IP addresses.

i tried another way

i’ve tried the deploy task to a 10 tablet group and this is not working i have this following error:

Invalid storage group

I looked my fog group storage configuration and is was set to 30 max client.

[TheDiskDrive]

Hi everyone !

Okay i think i have found why i can’t use the task “deploy” on a group of computer.

For some reason there no storage node being used.

very weird…

on a single computer the default storage node is used.

[Sebastian Roth]

@TheDiskDrive Do you use any FOG plugins like “location” or “site”?

[TheDiskDrive]

@Sebastian-Roth No

[Sebastian Roth]

@TheDiskDrive What does your storage node settings look like? Please post screenshots here.

[TheDiskDrive]

Here the screenshot, i’m using the default storage node.

the only thing i have changed is the Image Path and FTP Path

[Sebastian Roth]

@TheDiskDrive Username and Password shouldn’t be empty and definitely are not by default!

[TheDiskDrive]

i’m using the default username and password, they are removed for the screenshot.

[Sebastian Roth]

@TheDiskDrive Re-reading the whole topic I think I have missed an important part. Just can’t keep all the details of all the different posts in my head. So let’s go back a few steps.

Okay i think i have found why i can’t use the task “deploy” on a group of computer.
For some reason there no storage node being used.

I am not sure why but seems like this is normal. I just tried a multicast deploy on my test system and this table column is empty for me as well. I am fairly sure this is not what is causing the issue for you. See what George posted earlier.

@george1421 said in Create UEFI ISO and prepare Surface go deployement.:

Originally this wasn’t possible. I think there was some kernel parameter changes that now make it possible. I have not tested this feature as of now.

The USB boot stuff is not a fully official part of FOG and therefore we might not have noticed that multicast is not working using that. @george1421 would you have the chance to give it a try and see if it fails for you as well. If so I will have a closer look and try to fix it.

[george1421]

@Sebastian-Roth said in Create UEFI ISO and prepare Surface go deployement.:

The USB boot stuff is not a fully official part of FOG and therefore we might not have noticed that multicast is not working using that. @george1421 would you have the chance to give it a try and see if it fails for you as well.

I think it should be possible since the session name is no longer needed. Getting the session name in grub menu wasn’t possible. That is why it didn’t work before. I can test when I’m back in the office. I’m currently on holiday so I don’t have any tools to test at the moment.

[TheDiskDrive]

@Sebastian-Roth said in Create UEFI ISO and prepare Surface go deployement.:

@TheDiskDrive Re-reading the whole topic I think I have missed an important part. Just can’t keep all the details of all the different posts in my head. So let’s go back a few steps.

Okay i think i have found why i can’t use the task “deploy” on a group of computer.
For some reason there no storage node being used.

I am not sure why but seems like this is normal. I just tried a multicast deploy on my test system and this table column is empty for me as well. I am fairly sure this is not what is causing the issue for you. See what George posted earlier.

Is not about multicast deploy but the “Deploy” task, here is my issue

I go to a group of computer then i click on basic task and select deploy task

here is a list of 10 computer from the group

When i launch the task and watching task progression ( in task management section) no working node is used but when i create deploy task to ONE computer ( the first computer named GEII) the defaultMember node is used

When i’ve installed fog on my debian server i’ve changed the path in the Storage node settings to use my 1 tb virtual disk and moved all the data from the default path to my 1tb drive (/data on /dev/sdb)

By the way i have deployed all my tablets, deployement took 5 minutes per machine. Now i want to understand where i’m wrong

[Sebastian Roth]

@TheDiskDrive Thanks for the detailed pictures and explaination. I’ll try to replicate the issue. Won’t be this week but I won’t forget!

[Sebastian Roth]

@TheDiskDrive I have looked into this again and I am still not sure I really get this. You said:

i’ve tried the deploy task to a 10 tablet group and this is not working i have this following error:
Invalid storage group

Where/when exactly do you get this error message? Please take a picture of the error on screen and post here!

When i launch the task and watching task progression ( in task management section) no working node is used

As I said before, the empty column in the web UI is not causing the problem from my point of view. I have just done another test and it deploys perfectly fine on my test systems.

[Sebastian Roth]

Just for the notes: I pushed a fix for populating the “Working with node” column properly. But still I don’t think this is causing @TheDiskDrive’s issue. Please post a picture of the error you see and we should be able to help.