Latitude 5410 No Legacy boot
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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.
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@george1421 I was able to edit the Grub.cfg and add our Fog server IP in and then boot with USB and register and capture and deploy. Thank you again for all the help.
