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    Trev-lchs @Trev-lchs
    last edited by Jul 22, 2021, 10:57 AM

    @trev-lchs Hi Sabastian, why would you think I was kidding? I have already tried all the options from Fog Config/ipxe general config/boot exit type, none of these have worked, I tried your suggestion on the host of EXIT, but although this did exit, it just said that chainloading failed, hit S. Thanks for the hint about refind.conf I will try that, thanks as always for your help.

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      george1421 Moderator @Trev-lchs
      last edited by Jul 22, 2021, 12:09 PM

      @trev-lchs In the web ui -> FOG Configuration -> FOG Settings then hit the expand all button. In there will be bios exit modes and uefi exit modes. For bios SANBOOT works the best. For uefi rEFInd works the best. For bios SANBOOT should work straight away. For uefi some firmware is a bit flaky in that you may need to adjust the refind configuration file to get refind to locate your efi boot partition.

      So when you pick refind it just hangs at initializing? The first thing I would do is ensure your firmware is up to date. Some early release firmware has bugs in it.

      Its also possible that we might try an updated version of refind. What should be on your version of fog is 0.11.4 I see refind now has 0.13.2. We might want to test by swapping out 0.11.4 with the latest version of refind. See if that addresses the initialization issue. https://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/

      PS:: the “anyone” comment also irritated me a bit. As with most opensource projects we are all volunteers working here on our time, and at our expense. This forum is active but realize we all have day jobs that come first.

      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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        Trev-lchs @george1421
        last edited by Trev-lchs Jul 22, 2021, 7:16 AM Jul 22, 2021, 1:00 PM

        @george1421 OHHHH I see, I Wasn’t trying to upset anyone just in a downward spiral of no time, I sincerely apologies if I caused offence.

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          Trev-lchs @george1421
          last edited by Trev-lchs Jul 22, 2021, 7:16 AM Jul 22, 2021, 1:05 PM

          @george1421 Hi George, what would be the best way to swap this file out, I am not a Linux guru of any sort, I have had a look in the link you very kindly sent, would it be best to download the whole folder or just a file in it, we are using Windows 10, 64 based systems. The PCs are brand new and should be fully up to date firmware wise.

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            Trev-lchs @george1421
            last edited by Jul 22, 2021, 1:10 PM

            @george1421 Hi Again George downloaded the zip, as I guess that makes sense, how would one swap this out?

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              george1421 Moderator @Trev-lchs
              last edited by Jul 22, 2021, 2:50 PM

              @trev-lchs ok if you have the zip file go ahead and extract it. You are looking for refind.efi.

              Now if you are not very good with linux, download and install WinSCP. That is a file mover program you can use to send the file from your windows computer to the FOG server.

              On the fog server the current refind.efi file is in /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe directory. Rename the existing file and then use winscp to copy the new file over in its place. That is all that is needed. See if the updated refind does a better job locating the boot files.

              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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                Trev-lchs @george1421
                last edited by Jul 22, 2021, 3:30 PM

                @george1421 Thanks George that’s very helpful.

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                  Trev-lchs @george1421
                  last edited by Jul 23, 2021, 7:18 AM

                  @george1421 Hi George,Ii have extracted the zip renamed the old one on fog, about to copy over but the filenames in the extracted zip does not contain refind.efi however is does contain
                  Refind_ia32.efi
                  refind_aa64.efi
                  refind_x64.efi
                  I suppose that’s 32 bit, arm64 and X64, I thought about changing Refind_x64 to refind.efi, however I have no idea how fog makes this decision so don’t want to do the wrong thing, could you please advise?

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                    Sebastian Roth Moderator
                    last edited by Jul 23, 2021, 7:24 AM

                    @Trev-lchs Right, unfortunately we didn’t use the original name. Rename refind_x64.efi to refind.efi and give it a try.

                    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)

                    Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

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                      Trev-lchs @Sebastian Roth
                      last edited by Jul 23, 2021, 7:26 AM

                      @sebastian-roth Thanks Sebastian

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                        Trev-lchs @Sebastian Roth
                        last edited by Jul 23, 2021, 7:33 AM

                        @sebastian-roth Hi Sebastian, , Permission denied.
                        Error code: 3
                        Error message from server: Permission denied

                        this when attempting to copy from local PC to server using winscp
                        I am obviously doing something wrong, any advice would be truly welcome.

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                          Sebastian Roth Moderator
                          last edited by Jul 23, 2021, 9:12 AM

                          @Trev-lchs Which Linux OS do you use?

                          Run chown apache:apache /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/refind.efi for RedHat/CentOS systems or chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/refind.efi on Debian/Ubuntu Linux.

                          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)

                          Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

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                            Sebastian Roth Moderator
                            last edited by Sebastian Roth Jul 23, 2021, 3:16 AM Jul 23, 2021, 9:16 AM

                            @Trev-lchs Ahhh, I miss-read your message. You get the error when trying to upload the file to the server?! Which user do you use to upload the file? Maybe just upload the file to /tmp and then run the following commands on the console:

                            sudo -i
                            mv /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/refind.efi /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/refind.efi.orig
                            mv /tmp/refind.efi /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/
                            chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/refind.efi
                            

                            (For Debian/Ubuntu - if you have CentOS/RHEL, then use the other chown ... command posted a minute ago.

                            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)

                            Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

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                              Trev-lchs @Sebastian Roth
                              last edited by Sebastian Roth Jul 23, 2021, 3:25 AM Jul 23, 2021, 9:19 AM

                              @sebastian-rothHi Sebastian I thought id take your advise and upgrade to the latest version of fog, I think the gods are against me today any advice on the below would be most welcome

                                The current *fogstorage* database password does not meet high
                                 security standards. We will generate a new password and update
                                 all the settings on this FOG server for you. Please take note
                                 of the following credentials that you need to manually update
                                 on all your storage nodes' /opt/fog/.fogsettings configuration
                                 files and re-run (!) the FOG installer:
                                 
                                 Press [Enter] to proceed after you noted down the credentials.
                              
                              OK
                               * Backing up user reports.....................................Done
                               * Stopping web service........................................OK
                               * Setting up Apache and PHP files.............................Failed
                                 ###########################################
                                 #                                         #
                                 #      PHP Failed to install properly     #
                                 #                                         #
                                 ###########################################
                              
                                 Could not find /etc/php/7.1/fpm/php.ini!
                              
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                                Trev-lchs @Trev-lchs
                                last edited by Jul 23, 2021, 9:24 AM

                                @trev-lchs rerunning the installer in a vain hope, pray for me

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                                  Sebastian Roth Moderator
                                  last edited by Jul 23, 2021, 9:24 AM

                                  @Trev-lchs Which Linux OS and version do you have? Kind of looks like Ubuntu 16.04?!?!?!

                                  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)

                                  Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

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                                    Trev-lchs @Sebastian Roth
                                    last edited by Trev-lchs Jul 23, 2021, 3:33 AM Jul 23, 2021, 9:26 AM

                                    @sebastian-roth Yes I do believe that’s correct Sabastian
                                    NAME=“Ubuntu”
                                    VERSION=“16.04.7 LTS (Xenial Xerus)”
                                    ID=ubuntu
                                    ID_LIKE=debian
                                    PRETTY_NAME=“Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS”
                                    VERSION_ID=“16.04”
                                    HOME_URL=“http://www.ubuntu.com/”
                                    SUPPORT_URL=“http://help.ubuntu.com/”
                                    BUG_REPORT_URL=“http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/”
                                    VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
                                    UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

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                                      Trev-lchs @Sebastian Roth
                                      last edited by Jul 23, 2021, 9:30 AM

                                      @sebastian-roth Hi Sabastian, installer fails at the same place. fog a bit dead now

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                                        Trev-lchs @Sebastian Roth
                                        last edited by Jul 23, 2021, 1:40 PM

                                        @sebastian-roth Hi Sabastian, thank you so much for the save with fog, it is now back up and I am happy to say we still have the refind issue, happy I can be at that point. On testing it is just saying Chainloading failed , hit S. Should I still rename the file refind_x64.efi to refind.efi and copy that over. I am using the user I would normal use to log into the server with, then I run sudo -s to allow me to do things, the Winscp has the user details that I would normally log into the server with but I guess without sudo -s bit, it wont be able to do anything?

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                                          Trev-lchs @Trev-lchs
                                          last edited by Jul 23, 2021, 1:47 PM

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