HP Elitebook 830 Gen 6: Issues Capturing Images and Deploying Images
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Now even more confusing is that the image capture of Samsung in a G6 after been in a G5 is now working in other Samsung G6s! I have managed to image 4 laptops so far.
Not so lucky with the Hynix with the same method. Will attempt a RAW capture.
Also I have noticed that these new images within FOG are showing as 0 ib size. But there most be data as I have successfully deployed the Samsung image.
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@rocksteve69 I’m wondering if clonezilla would give you the same results. In this idea use fog to image a G5 with the G6 image. Then turn right around without booting into the windows OS grab an image with Clonezilla and see if you can deploy a clonezilla captured image to a G6 with the impacted disk. Does it image at an acceptable rate? This would be a way around the issue until we can better understand the problem.
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@rocksteve69 said in HP Elitebook 830 Gen 6: Issues Capturing Images and Deploying Images:
Also I have noticed that these new images within FOG are showing as 0 ib size.
FWIW: This in a way is only a label that is updated on a successful upload. The size is added during the capture process and is only used for display. It has no impact on imaging.
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Downloading Clonezilla to give it a test.
Interesting though when I try to capture an image of a G6 with a Hynix it goes through the motion up until Partclone starts takes no data and states capture completed successfully and reboots within a few seconds. No errors reported and reports back that the task is completed to FOG which clears the task.
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@rocksteve69 I’ve looked into this a bit more and there’s some people complaining about NVME speeds declining greatly when they update Linux kernel to a version above 4.9 (4.9 being a version that works fine for them)
So maybe trying an older kernel version can help.
Of course, the problem you can run into then is that other parts of your system aren’t supported, but it’s worth a try!
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We have tried version 4.18.11 and it has had no effect. Still the same issues.
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@rocksteve69 Sorry, can you try Kernel 4.9.11?
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@Quazz said in HP Elitebook 830 Gen 6: Issues Capturing Images and Deploying Images:
Sorry, can you try Kernel 4.9.11?
Hi,
When I go to the Kernel update list there is no 4.9.11 only 4.9.1
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@rocksteve69 That’s fine, try that one. As long as it’s before kernel 4.11
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Unfortunately no difference
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I have also attempted to use Clonezilla on the Hynix. I took an image successfully onto a usb drive was able to successfully deploy to a know G6 that failed to image using FOG with a Hynix drive with no issues.
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@rocksteve69 Which Clonezilla version was this?
@Developers Could this be partition alignment related or was that already fixed ages ago? I can’t remember.
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@rocksteve69 Thanks!
Looks like that version is running on Linux Kernel 5.2.9-2, potentially including some NVME fixes for certain devices.
I am compiling that kernel, hopefully that’s the only thing needed, because otherwise I am unsure where to start looking.
Will post a link here when it’s done.
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@rocksteve69 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WLjXQYKDoZCAxF5Gfjeva2O-MLrfQ40N
Copy to /var/www/fog/service/ipxe
Change kernel in WebUI to bzImage529
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@Quazz said in HP Elitebook 830 Gen 6: Issues Capturing Images and Deploying Images:
Copy to /var/www/fog/service/ipxe
Change kernel in WebUI to bzImage529Excellent, will test and will report back
Cheers again for the help.
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@Quazz
HiWe have attempted the updated bzImage529 and no effect. Same issues. We also started having issues before Partclone starts where intermittently after the ipxe boot it loads the Fog screen, select deploy image, enter creds, select an image and then it hangs at the bzImage529 stuck at 0% and then returns to the Fog screen after 2 minutes.
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Now we appear to have another issue that is effecting every device we attempt to image or capture.
After ipxe into the Fog client, selecting Deploy and then selecting an image we get the following error:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)
We have attempted rolling back the Fog Version to 1.5.7 and the Kernel 4.19.64 and no joy.
Any help would be awesome.
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@rocksteve69 You may have to increase the ramdisk size in the settings on the WebUI
It’s at TFTP settings (set it to something like 275000)
