Latitude 5410 No Legacy boot
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@george1421 If i hit the s button i can get into the ipxe command line. I am able to ping the fog server from there. I can even type in login and it brings up the username and password prompt and i can login there with my fog username and password. It then takes me back to the ipxe screen. All machines that are working on legacy are on the same subnet.
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@John-L-Clark So from a computer on the same subnet as the target computer, can you open a browser and browse to
http://192.168.101.29/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=00:00:00:00:00:00That should give you the text configuration behind the iPXE menu.While sitting at the iPXE command prompt (from the error in the picture where you hit ‘s’) what happens if you
ping 192.168.101.29and then key in
chain http://192.168.101.29/fog/service/ipxe/boot.phpWhat you are telling me should not be happening.
Also I looked through the thread quickly but I didn’t see where I asked what version of FOG are you running?
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@george1421 I can ping the 192.168.101.29 from the prompt and then i type in the chain command and it times out. I can browse to the http://192.168.101.29/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 from my machine on the same subnet I can get there. The version of fog is 1.3.5
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@John-L-Clark said in Latitude 5410 No Legacy boot:
The version of fog is 1.3.5
Well I didn’t see that coming. 1.3.5 is pretty old. If you want to stay in the pre-1.5 version branch you might consider to upgrade to at least 1.4.4 using the tarball method to upgrade. Version 1.5 add quite a bit of enhancements that require more CPU, 1.4.4 was the last stable image in the pre-1.5 world of FOG.
Lets try downloading a more current version of
ipxe.efifrom here: https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/tree/master/packages/tftp the file gets downloaded to the /tftpboot directory on the FOG server. -
@george1421 i downloaded the new ipxe.efi and put it in the tftpboot and renamed the old one .old
It did the same thing. I will have to talk to the team about availability to upgrade fog. This time of year is our busiest. This is a picture of Legacy booting on that same table as the other and it just works. Sorry I am such a problem!!
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@John-L-Clark Is there any possibility to take a single computer, configure it for bios and then take that same computer and configure it for uefi and boot it from the same network jack.
I’m having a hard time understanding why bios works to chain to boot.php but uefi is getting a connection timeout.
We can surely rule out everything before iPXE starts up because iPXE is getting to both systems. So its not pxe boot or most likely not iPXE itself. dnsmasq is not the issue because again the right boot loader is being sent to the target computer.
We can see clearly that the http protocol is loaded in both of the pictures you provided for bios as well as efi.
When you pxe boot and get the connection timeout with the uefi image, look in the apache log directory on the FOG server. It may be in /var/log/apache2 or somwhere in that area. There should be an error_log in that dirctory. Tail that log realtivly close to the time you get the chain load error. See if apache is throwing an error when the target computer requests boot.php, I’m really grabbing at straws here, but it should NOT do this.
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@george1421 ok progresss, the Lenovo E550 that was booting to legacy but installing an EFI image can boot EFI only and has legacy completely disabled. The Dell Latitude 5410 still times out. I will keep testing tomorrow and Will update the Feed. Thank you again for all the help.
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@george1421 I have tried several other machines and we are able to boot to Fog using ipxe.efi. The Latitude 5410 I still can not get it to boot to Fog. I have tried the old ipxe.efi and the new ipxe.efi. I have tried several of the other .efi boot files and i just can not get it to boot. Any Ideas? Thanks
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@John-L-Clark make sure you have the latest version of the firmware installed on this 5510.
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@george1421 We have updated the bios to the Urgent Bios update from the Dell Website. Bios version is 1.1.1 and still get the time out error when trying to download hte default.ipxe.
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@John-L-Clark This is going to be somewhat of a seemingly random question. But what model hard drive is installed in this computer? The reason why I ask is we had another dell earlier in the year on the forum that came with 2 different hard drives. Where one hard drive caused pxe boot to fail and a second hard drive pxe booted fine. In this case the pxe boot issues was with downloading bg.png for the iPXE menu. This is a long shot but the OP contacted dell support and found there was a bios setting that needed to be adjusted when disk X was installed. Let me see if I can find that post.
edit: ref: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/14400/slow-speed-and-timeout-issues/10
Quote from the OP of that thread:
“good news. I had some time to play today and found in the bios if i go to advanced configuration. Then to ASPM. I had to disable that . This controls the handshake between the device and pci express hub to determin the best aspm mode supported by the device. Once that was disabled everything was fast again and i could use the new hard drive and onboard nic.” -
@george1421 Ok here is what i see in the BIOS and i dont see anything about the ASPM. I will try to call Dell today. Thanks
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@John-L-Clark If you don’t get anywhere with Dell then we can try to bypass pxe altogether. You will loose some flexibility but you will be able to image systems.
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@george1421 This is what Dell is asking and I am not sure about the answer.
Hi John,
Do you know off-hand if that’s the same one that would be available here? https://ipxe.org/download
Or would that have been configured any?
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@John-L-Clark It’s the plain mainline iPXE code we use, no patches added. Configuration headers we use you can find here: https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/tree/master/src/ipxe (UEFI and legacy BIOS separate)
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@John-L-Clark I’m not totally sure I understand your question, but if they want the compiled file they can get it from the FOGPROJECT github respository: https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/tree/master/packages/tftp
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@george1421 Still waiting on Dell. They said they are getting in the lab and working on it with the last info you gave me. That being said we have to get these machines imaged so you said there was another option besides PXE booting. We have not captured the image yet so we have to capture the image and then deploy it to 60 laptops. Thank you again for your help.
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@John-L-Clark https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7727/building-usb-booting-fos-image
Read through the entire tutorial and pay attention to the caveats before you start imaging.
Also look at the forum chat bubble for additional hints.
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@george1421 I got the USB created and now working where I can register but I got this error.
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@John-L-Clark Unless your fog server really is at IP address 192.168.1.100, one might think you missed a step in the tutorial.
