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    • george1421G
      george1421 Moderator @saftkartoffel
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      @saftkartoffel said in Clear block out of boundary:

      Well I got Fatal: error unknown request type :: Null
      Got a quick fix? need to do the imaging asap

      This is one of the caveats of usb booting. You should reread the instructions for building the FOS Linux USB boot disk. It says that you MUST schedule the task first in the Web UI THEN select option 1 on the grub boot menu. If you don’t you will get the error about Unknown request type Null.

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        saftkartoffel @george1421
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        @george1421 said in Clear block out of boundary:

        @saftkartoffel said in Clear block out of boundary:

        Well I got Fatal: error unknown request type :: Null
        Got a quick fix? need to do the imaging asap

        This is one of the caveats of usb booting. You should reread the instructions for building the FOS Linux USB boot disk. It says that you MUST schedule the task first in the Web UI THEN select option 1 on the grub boot menu. If you don’t you will get the error about Unknown request type Null.

        Did exactly like that, the unicast works flawlessly but the multicast task doesn’t seems to be recognized bye the hosts

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          saftkartoffel @Sebastian Roth
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          @Sebastian-Roth said in Clear block out of boundary:

          @saftkartoffel As I see you are using the USB boot stuff. Not part of the official FOG code but I am sure we can help you! Please post the complete grub configuration you have in boot/grub/grub.cfg on your USB key.

          I only changed the myfogip

          
          set myfogip=10.35.148.134
          set myimage=/boot/bzImage
          set myinits=/boot/init.xz
          set myloglevel=4
          set timeout=-1
          insmod all_video
          
          menuentry "1. FOG Image Deploy/Capture" {
           echo loading the kernel
           linux  $myimage loglevel=$myloglevel initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=275000 keymap= web=$myfogip/fog/ boottype=usb consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4
           echo loading the virtual hard drive
           initrd $myinits
           echo booting kernel...
          }
          
          menuentry "2. Perform Full Host Registration and Inventory" {
           echo loading the kernel
           linux  $myimage loglevel=$myloglevel initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=275000 keymap= web=$myfogip/fog/ boottype=usb consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 mode=manreg
           echo loading the virtual hard drive
           initrd $myinits
           echo booting kernel...
          }
          
          menuentry "3. Quick Registration and Inventory" {
           echo loading the kernel
           linux  $myimage loglevel=$myloglevel initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=275000 keymap= web=$myfogip/fog/ boottype=usb consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 mode=autoreg
           echo loading the virtual hard drive
           initrd $myinits
           echo booting kernel...
          }
          
          menuentry "4. Client System Information (Compatibility)" {
           echo loading the kernel
           linux  $myimage loglevel=$myloglevel initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=275000 keymap= web=$myfogip/fog/ boottype=usb consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 mode=sysinfo
           echo loading the virtual hard drive
           initrd $myinits
           echo booting kernel...
          }
          
          menuentry "5. Run Memtest86+" {
           linux /boot/memdisk iso raw
           initrd /boot/memtest.bin
          }
          
          menuentry "6. FOG Debug Kernel" {
           echo loading the kernel
           linux  $myimage loglevel=7 init=/sbin/init root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=275000 keymap= boottype=usb consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 isdebug=yes
           echo loading the virtual hard drive
           initrd $myinits
           echo booting kernel...
          }
          
          menuentry "7. FOG iPXE Jumpstart BIOS" {
           echo loading the kernel
           linux16  /boot/ipxe.krn
           echo booting iPXE...
          }
          
          menuentry "8. FOG iPXE Jumpstart EFI" {
           echo chain loading the kernel
           insmod chain 
           chainloader /boot/ipxe.efi
           echo booting iPXE-efi...
          }
          
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          • george1421G
            george1421 Moderator @saftkartoffel
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            @saftkartoffel said in Clear block out of boundary:

            but the multicast task doesn’t seems to be recognized bye the hosts

            At the current time you can not use multicast with the USB boot environment. In theory it should be possible but we will need to get GRUB to prompt for the multicast task name. So “today” only unicast is supported when booting via usb.

            I do have to ask why are you booting via USB? Is PXE booting not supported by your hardware?

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              saftkartoffel @george1421
              last edited by saftkartoffel

              @george1421 said in Clear block out of boundary:

              @saftkartoffel said in Clear block out of boundary:

              but the multicast task doesn’t seems to be recognized bye the hosts

              At the current time you can not use multicast with the USB boot environment. In theory it should be possible but we will need to get GRUB to prompt for the multicast task name. So “today” only unicast is supported when booting via usb.

              I do have to ask why are you booting via USB? Is PXE booting not supported by your hardware?

              Unfortunately no, is there a way for imac to boot directly from network though? And more notes for further research. The unicast now does 100% on other identical machine as the golden master, the previous stuck percentage at partclone is done on an older machine but with the same size of hdd. And the final result is a hfs+ formated partitions. So I guess the raw capture doesn’t capture the image as APFS. luckily a time machine backup will fix the format back to apfs

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                Sebastian Roth Moderator
                last edited by Sebastian Roth

                @george1421 said in Clear block out of boundary:

                At the current time you can not use multicast with the USB boot environment…

                I keep forgetting the drawbacks of the USB boot stuff. Now that the latest release is out I might have a bit more time to look into this and maybe make it work. Though this won’t be today.

                @saftkartoffel said:

                And the final result is a hfs+ formated partitions. So I guess the raw capture doesn’t capture the image as APFS. luckily a time machine backup will fix the format back to apfs.

                I can’t imagine RAW capture will convert a partition formated with APFS to HFS+ or anything like that unless APFS has parts of the filesystem stored in NVRAM - which would be really strange.

                Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                • george1421G
                  george1421 Moderator @saftkartoffel
                  last edited by george1421

                  @saftkartoffel Are you willing to try something different to see if we can jump into iPXE via USB? If we can get the iPXE menu loaded then multicasting is an option.

                  Follow these instructions. https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6350/usb-boot-uefi-client-into-fog-menu-easy-way

                  Understand this is an idea and have no understanding if it will work under mac hardware. But the idea is to load iPXE much like we load GRUB from the usb stick.

                  Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!

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                  • george1421G
                    george1421 Moderator @Sebastian Roth
                    last edited by

                    @Sebastian-Roth said in Clear block out of boundary:

                    I keep forgetting the drawbacks of the USB boot stuff. Now that the latest release is out I might have a bit more time to look into this and maybe make it work. Though this won’t be today.

                    I looked into this and grub does have a readline (or similar) that we can grab the task name with. I simply haven’t had time my self to script this up yet. In theory it should work.

                    Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!

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                      kudlab @saftkartoffel
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                      @saftkartoffel going by your photo i am experiencing a very similar if not identical issue, attempting to capture an image from a 2020 MBA using usb key booting with bzImage.T2 (renamed to bzImage)

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                        Sebastian Roth Moderator
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                        @saftkartoffel @kudlab While I can’t test USB booting here in my VM setup quickly I would ask you guys to try out using the last menu point from your USB key GRUB menu 8. FOG iPXE Jumpstart EFI after you’ve scheduled a multicast task.

                        Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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