REFInd-Initializing - hangs

Sebastian Roth

@trev-lchs said in REFInd-Initializing - hangs:

having now tried all the various options of exit in the latest version of FOG I have had no luck, this is with the rEFInd.efi renamed and the latest X64 REFInd file copied over it (0132) and named rEFInd.efi.

The case of the filenames do actually matter on Linux systems!! Not sure but that could be the problem now.

Beside that it’s very hard to help without knowing what exactly has been done. Maybe run the following commands and post output here so we know what it looks like at the moment:

ls -al /var/www/
ls -al /var/www/html/
ls -al /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/

Trev-lchs

@sebastian-roth HI Sabastian
please see below

root@fog-03:~# ls -al /var/www/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  4 root     root     4096 Jul 23 14:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root     root     4096 Dec  1  2016 ..
drwxr-xr-x 10 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 23 14:25 fog
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root     4096 Jul 23 10:00 html
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   52 Jul 23 14:23 index.php

root@fog-03:~# ls -al /var/www/html/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jul 23 10:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  4096 Jul 23 14:23 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 Dec  1  2016 fog -> /var/www/fog/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11321 Jul 23 10:00 index.html

root@fog-03:~# ls -al /var/www/html//fog/service/ipxe/
total 59412
drwxr-xr-x 3 fogproject www-data       4096 Jul 23 16:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data   www-data       4096 Jul 23 14:23 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data       1966 Jul 23 14:23 advanced.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 fogproject fogproject     4096 Jul 23 16:09 backup
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data      16272 Jul 23 14:23 bgdark.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data      21280 Jul 23 14:23 bg.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data       1139 Jul 23 14:23 boot.php
-rwxr-xr-x 1 fogproject fogproject  8950400 Jul 23 16:09 bzImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data    8398784 Jul 23 14:24 bzImage32
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     234697 Jul 23 14:23 grub.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data        592 Jul 23 14:23 index.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data   20591048 Jul 23 14:24 init_32.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data   21178512 Jul 23 14:24 init.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data      25340 Jul 23 14:23 memdisk
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data    1839104 Jul 23 14:23 memtest.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data   www-data     254216 Jul 23 07:46 refind2.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     202624 Jul 23 14:23 refind_aa64.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data      29719 Jul 23 14:23 refind.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     262592 Jul 23 14:23 refind.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     201600 Jul 23 14:23 refind_ia32.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     208776 Jul 23 14:23 refind_x64.efi

Hope this is what you wanted, as always thanks for your help.

Trev-lchs

@sebastian-roth I am running about getting PCs ready to go before the next lot arrive, this is still important to us, but I am juggling things now, just so you don’t think I am not keen to get it fixed.

Sebastian Roth

@Trev-lchs Ok, filesnames and paths all seem fine. Not sure what else you can try. As I said, some hardware does play with rEFInd and some don’t.

Trev-lchs

@sebastian-roth Thats a shame, I can capture from the PC and also write the Image to the PC, so I will just have to turn off boot from network until a refind file comes along that works I guess. Unless there are any other suggestions out there.

Sebastian thank you for all your time with this, if you should hear of anything or find out from another user what the fix might be, please do drop me a line if you can. Are you able to see the email address of members?

Sebastian Roth

@Trev-lchs Have you played with the mentioned refind.conf yet? Search the forum for more hints in this topic.

Which versions of rEFInd have you tried? All of them?

Trev-lchs

@sebastian-roth Thanks Sebastian, to be honest, most of them, with exactly the same result. I will try the conf file and see if that is the answer. I have been busy unpacking and installing PCs for the last few days, I will let you know how I get on.

PeterL

Your issue with rEFInd is because of HPs EFI.
I have exactly the same issue with ProDesk 400 for quite some time.
The workaround to get those systems booting via rEFInd was a downgrade of the rEFInd binaries.

For me a downgrade to rEFInd out of the FOG 1.5.5 package did the trick.

FOG 1.5.5

Path in the ZIP archive: fogproject-1.5.5.zip\fogproject-1.5.5\packages\web\service\ipxe\refind.efi

The binary is dated 15.11.2018

On a Debian system place the file in /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe
Once as “refind.efi” and a second time as “refind_x64.efi”.

PeterL

@peterl said in REFInd-Initializing - hangs:

Your issue with rEFInd is because of HPs EFI.
I have exactly the same issue with ProDesk 400 for quite some time.
The workaround to get those systems booting via rEFInd was a downgrade of the rEFInd binaries.

For me a downgrade to rEFInd out of the FOG 1.5.5 package did the trick.

FOG 1.5.5

Path in the ZIP archive: fogproject-1.5.5.zip\fogproject-1.5.5\packages\web\service\ipxe\refind.efi

The binary is dated 15.11.2018

On a Debian system place the file in /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe
Once as “refind.efi” and a second time as “refind_x64.efi”.

As I’m not allowed to edit my own posts …

I’ve seen this issue on ProDesk 400G5, none the less I think it’s the same problem.
HPs EFI is a real PITA and besides the problem you observed you will (most likely) also stumble upon a changed boot order, once you deployed images to your hardware.

There is a setting for WOL in the “internal devices” section in the EFI, where you most likely will want to setup “PXE” instead of “normal boot”. This way you will be able to remotely work with a machine by shutting it down, waking it up and have it reliably booting to FOG menu/task.

george1421

@peterl FWIW the refind files can be located here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/

For a very log time FOG shipped with 0.11.0 version of refind. This was a very stable, but old release. Based on the image date you referenced that must be the 0.11.4 release of refind. You might also want to try 0.13.2 (newest at the time of writing). To see if the very latest version of refind works for you.

PeterL

@george1421

I did some testing with 0.13.2 and 0.11.4 and BOTH did not work.

0.11.4 files are dated “12.11.2018 21:13:xx”, size of the refind_x64.efi file 208 776 Bytes.

The binary in the FOG 1.5.5 package (refind.efi) is dated “15.11.2018 20:42:17”, size 205 192 Bytes.

Those are not the same files.

Trev-lchs

@peterl Thank you Peter, I will endeavor to do as suggested, currently I have settled for no general pxe boot/network boot on all the PCs, this is a pain, but just means I have to go to a pc locally to boot into fog to deploy an image and I cant just do it from the fog GUI.

WillingMost7

@peterl Ton of thanks to you. I have the exact same model here and I have had this problem.

Now downgraded to rEFInd of fogproject-1.5.5 it is not stuck anymore on “rEFInd-Initializing…”, but it is stuck now on “Scanning for new boot loaders; Please wait…”
Have you made any changes to the refind.conf file?
Mine is set at:

....
scanfor internal
....
timeout -1
....
scan_delay 5
....

It is an improvement, we’re getting somewhere now and soon will solve this. So, thanks for sharing!

quinniedid

@Trev-lchs We are an all HP shop. We have to use rEFInd version 0.10.9 for all of our systems to boot correctly. This is definitely something with HP’s EFI setup.

I ran into this problem myself, which you can reference the post https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11993/refind-pxe-booting-issue

Let me know if you were able to get this working with this version

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