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    How to PXE Boot Killdisk On Fog

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      novice83
      last edited by novice83

      Hello

      I am trying to pxe boot killdisk on fog, based on the research i have done so far based on various posts i am stuck on a boot loop, the kill disk iso loads 100% then the device (laptop) reboots…

      Running fog 1.5.9 on ubuntu 20.04.4 Lts
      Used Killdisk to create an ISO
      created a fog pxe menu item as follows:

      :killdisk
      initrd http://${fog-ip}killdisk/ActiveBootDisk.ISO
      chain memdisk iso ||

      I am stumped, I cant get it to boot to the ISO, what am i missing? any help is appreciated.

      Thanks

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        Sebastian Roth Moderator
        last edited by Sebastian Roth

        @novice83 Looks like this is a commercial product. So we can’t help you with that as we don’t have access to the ISO to test. Probably best you talk to the company about PXE booting their ISO.

        Just a quick hint on this as a lot of PCs/notebooks are in UEFI mode nowadays. The memdisk iso method is working on legacy BIOS machines only. If you want to make this work you need to look into extracting the ISO and manually set things up to PXE boot it. You can find many examples in @george1421’s thread on PXE booting ISOs: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10944/using-fog-to-pxe-boot-into-your-favorite-installer-images

        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 @novice83
          last edited by

          @novice83 Yeah, I’d like to see a directory tree of all of the files on that disk. That way we can work out a plan to pxe boot it. Its either going to be a linux based software or windows (winpe) based software. Knowing which format we can know what steps to take.

          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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            novice83 @novice83
            last edited by

            @george1421 i can get you a key if you want to try it out,

            basically i created a bootable iso

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            • george1421G
              george1421 Moderator @novice83
              last edited by

              @novice83 Ok good deal. I need to see the contents of a grub.conf file or grub.cfg.

              I need to see the contents of isolinux.cfg from the loader directory.

              One of those contain the key to booting it. It will list the kernel and the file system (virtual hard drive). Its probably that active_liveCD-readonly.sqsh (squash file system) file. But the config files will point to it.

              There is still a risk because of the drm key (bootdisk.key I suspect) to be able to locate that in memory.

              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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