REFInd-Initializing - hangs

[Trev-lchs]

@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.

[Trev-lchs]

@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.

[Trev-lchs]

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

[george1421]

@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.

[Trev-lchs]

@george1421 Thanks George that’s very helpful.

[Trev-lchs]

@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?

[Sebastian Roth]

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

[Trev-lchs]

@sebastian-roth Thanks Sebastian

[Trev-lchs]

@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.

[Sebastian Roth]

@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.

[Sebastian Roth]

@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.

[Trev-lchs]

@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!

[Trev-lchs]

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

[Sebastian Roth]

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

[Trev-lchs]

@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

[Trev-lchs]

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

[Trev-lchs]

@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?

[Trev-lchs]

This post is deleted!

[Trev-lchs]

@sebastian-roth I have now carried out everything you have listed and still have the same error with refind Chain loading failed hit s. As this is a new version of fog I will check all the other exit types, you never know!

[Trev-lchs]

@sebastian-roth Not sure if you get any of the donations but if you do, have a beer on me