Solved Trouble with booting to windows

[george1421]

@JerJer Well then this is interesting. How is refind even in the picture here? if you search the entire iPXE menu using “find” in the browser is refind even mentioned?

Is the target computer using refind as some kind of boot manager, like in a dual boot configuration (windows and ubuntu)?

[JerJer]

@george1421

same with both macs

[george1421]

@JerJer well lets take a different approach.

From a browser key in the following url, but replace the IP address of your fog server. http://<fog_server_ip>/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=00:00:00:00:00

This is going to print out the fog iPXE menu.

Look down the page after the menu items

item fog.local Boot from hard disk
item fog.memtest Run Memtest86+
item fog.reginput Perform Full Host Registration and Inventory
item fog.reg Quick Registration and Inventory
item fog.deployimage Deploy Image
item fog.multijoin Join Multicast Session
item fog.sysinfo Client System Information (Compatibility)
choose --default fog.local --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}
:fog.local
sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80 || goto MENU

For the :fog.local menu item, does it say sanboot like above?

Do the same test but replace the mac address of 00:00:00:00:00 with the mac address of the target computer you are testing with.

[JerJer]

@george1421 Still goes into refind

[george1421]

@JerJer OK in your second picture.

Set host bios exit type to SANBOOT

[JerJer]

@george1421 I don’t exactly understand what you mean but these are the settings im using currently

[george1421]

@JerJer OK if the computers are in bios mode you should NOT see refind since that is for uefi.

There are global exit modes which I gave you instructions for in the previous posts, but you can only define host specific exit modes that override the global settings. If you are still getting refind then look at the host definition exit mode for that single computer in question. Bios needs SANBOOT and UEFI need REFIND.

[JerJer]

@george1421 The computers are running on bios. I did the changes above but selecting the boot from hard disk only gets me to the rEFInd about screen. Going back to the rEFInd main menu there are only options for about, shut down, reboot and reboot with system utility

[george1421]

The first thing is to just start with one computer.

Understand what mode that computer is running in (bios or uefi).

From there I would go into the FOG Configuration->FOG Settings->FOG Boot Settings menu.

Configure:
EFI BOOT EXIT TYPE: REFIND_EFI
BOOT EXIT TYPE: SANBOOT

Save the settings.

Next pxe boot the computer into the fog menu. The default menu item is “Boot from hard disk” after the timeout that first computer should exit to the hard drive using one of the 2 methods you configured. If the computer is bios based it should call SANBOOT to locate the boot partition. If the computer is uefi based it should call rEFInd to locate the boot partition.

If it doesn’t then we’ll need to see a screen shot of the error to understand what is not going right.