Can't pxe boot into Fog after restart of server.

[FogNewUser]

I am really new to fog and wanting to fix this fog issue at work.
It was working then another associate moved it by power it off and now pc’s that we have to image are not booting up to the fog. I tried restarting and did some searches on google for several hours.

We don’t have a program called dnsmasq and I tried the command of disabling the firewall in Ubuntu.

Is there an easy fix or do we have to reinstall the fog? We have 20 images so remapping would be an issue. lol.

The guy who setup the fog is not on our team anymore and no one really knows how to work it.

[george1421]

@FogNewUser Ok this one almost tells me what I need to know, from the picture perspective it would be handy to see more to the left edge to get the complete interface name.

But what I see you have built in network adapters (knowing its a P710) helps with the guessing and maybe 3 riser card network adapters. At this point I don’t see any interfaces with IP addresses, so it looks like you have a bunch of unconfigured interfaces.

From the screen shot it looks like you have a debian based OS (could be ubuntu which is debian based). So you will need to use the network manager if you have the gui loaded to define an IP address for your fog server. IF you have fog installed AND it was working you can refer to the file /opt/fog/.fogsettings to what the IP address of the fog server was when FOG was installed. You need to move it back to that IP address or you will have to make several changes to the fog configuration since the IP address is hardcoded in a few spots.

[FogNewUser]

@george1421 also, I decided to try to export the images but the export option is not working. So I am copying all the images from the “image” folder.

[FogNewUser]

@FogNewUser https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ASoimHl5R/?igshid=1lo3horq9bp05

Try this

[george1421]

@FogNewUser Sorry no luck with the insta page.

[FogNewUser]

@george1421 https://www.Instagram.com/p/b2asoimh15r/?igshid=1lsv0wtn4gwvw

[george1421]

@FogNewUser Upload the picture to a file share site (i.e. google drive) or past bin so I can see the output of the ip addr show

[FogNewUser]

@george1421 as for the ip address show command, all I see is lots of Ff.ff.ff.ff.ff. broadcast addresses

[FogNewUser]

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[FogNewUser]

@george1421 Is that under home or computer?

[george1421]

@FogNewUser OK lets catch our breath here.

Since I don’t know your server or how its setup, lets look in a file on the fog server its called /opt/fog/.fogsettings (yes that is a dot ( . ) between the slash and fogsettings.

Look at that file with an editor. Note the fields ipaddress, interface, and submask.

Now lets see your network adapters.
ip address show

post the results here

[FogNewUser]

@george1421 How can I get the network card backup and running? He mistakenly deleted the 192.168.1.1 address to the fog. Now the fog is running on the loopback address of 127.0.0.1. lol. Plus our boss is getting really upset for now we can’t image any new computers and this will put us way behind. :(

[FogNewUser]

@george1421 LOL, that is funny. Well, I just tried to test a command to see if I have that it “dig debian.org @localhost” but it did not work. I can’t get on the web with this server for all the ports can’t get on the web. Plus Fog’s main page will not load unless an ethernet cord, doesn’t matter what to, is plugged in a certain port. Now, my co-worker did some cmd to the network card and we can’t see any ip now with the ifconfig. I would of tried out the dnsmasq but can’t download it without internet connection.

[george1421]

@FogNewUser Are you running the dhcp server on your fog server or are you running dnsmasq on your fog server? You should know the answer to both questions. Hint: if you have to ask what is dnsmasq then the answer is no because you have to intentionally install that application.

[FogNewUser]

@Sebastian-Roth Thanks for responding. I just see the “dhcp. . . . .” as if it is trying to connect but does not

[Sebastian Roth]

@FogNewUser Please take a video or pictures of what you see on screen when PCs Boot up. Post those here so we know to what stage it boots up to.

[FogNewUser]

BTW, it is a stand alone server box that we plugged a switch into. So any pc’s that we plug the ethernet cable into would be directly connected to the fog so I don’t think that it is a DHCP issue but who knows.