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    Boot into FOG on iMac 18,1 with Boot Image or boot Partition

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      RTOadmin @george1421
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      @george1421 thank you.

      I tried to enter the comands on the target computer but the directory lib is not in the fog directory

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        george1421 Moderator @RTOadmin
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        @rtoadmin said in Boot into FOG on iMac 18,1 with Boot Image or boot Partition:

        I tried to enter the comands on the target computer but the directory lib is not in the fog directory

        This is very strange because its the foundation of the FOG code that runs on FOS Linux. I lifted that code directly from the FOG script. Every fog script has that line in it. https://github.com/FOGProject/fos/blob/fda59eca648af1a38ed57c94f65558221e77534f/Buildroot/board/FOG/FOS/rootfs_overlay/bin/fog.man.reg#L2

        I agree if you type that into the FOG server’s linux console that script will not be there, but on the target computer it better be there.

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          RTOadmin @george1421
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          OK,
          as always the problem is between the keyboard and the chair 🙂

          I tried to caputre the wrong Mac…

          Now it Captures…

          Sorry for making taking so much time.

          thank you very much.

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            george1421 Moderator @RTOadmin
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            @rtoadmin Well done on the capture. For my info the system you were able to capture, is that a 2019 or later mac? I’m curious about if the patches to the FOS Linux kernel that supports the T2 chip worked or not. If you captured on an older mac, that is ok. I’m just interested in seeing if FOG should integrate the T2 patches into the official FOG kernel.

            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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              RTOadmin @george1421
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              @george1421
              Ok,
              I looked in the Systemreport in OS X and find out that the iMacs are from 2017.
              This means my reseller sold me in 2021 old stuff because of the latest imac 21,5 is form 2019 as I konow 😞

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                RTOadmin @george1421
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                @george1421
                Hi,
                I tried to get the boot stick on a partiton on every mac.
                I made a knew partition FAT32 and copied the whole stuff from the USB-Stick to the FAT Partition.
                After booting i became an error
                error:no such partition

                Is there a way to fix this and boot from this partition?
                Thank you
                Mathias

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                  george1421 Moderator @RTOadmin
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                  @rtoadmin said in Boot into FOG on iMac 18,1 with Boot Image or boot Partition:

                  After booting i became an error

                  I don’t have a good answer for you. I don’t know Mac computers so I can’t give any guidance.

                  I would think that since its a uefi partition the firmware should see it. Maybe the program you used to write the image file to the usb flash drive, could be used to write the image file to this partition? Once you have that setup working you can use FOG to copy just that partition and then deploy that partition to other computers. Understand I have not thought to much about any failures in this process. But it should work, maybe.

                  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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                    RTOadmin @george1421
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                    @george1421
                    I saw that the boot stick has a masterboot record and the drive in the imac is GPT.
                    Could you imagine that this is the Problem why the FOS linux didnt boot?

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