"cannot locate boot server" when booting and cant access webUI

[cammykool]

As title says, When booting a client on BIOS PXE it detects FOG and attempts to find the boot server and fails. I also cannot access the fog webUI. Fog is configured with dnsmasq and the server has internet. Pings to it time out.

Is it something i could have messed up in the dnsmasq config?

Ubuntu 20.04
FOG 1.5.9 stable
booting MBR to a Dell Latitude

[george1421]

@cammykool It almost sounds like the fog server’s IP address has changed since FOG was installed. You should be able to ping the fog server even if FOG wasn’t installed.

On the fog server open a command prompt and key in ip a s That will show you the network adapters and the ip addresses associated with. Compare that to the contents of /opt/fog/.fogsettings file. Make sure the IP address is consistent between the two. If the FOG server has changed IP addresses then you will have some fix’n to do. Once you can ping the server as well as connect to the web ui and it still doesn’t pxe boot then we can look at dnsmasq.

[cammykool]

@george1421 The address matches between the files and coming back in this morning, I was able to get to the webUI without trouble, but any laptop i try to get to boot can see FOG but cant find the boot server. I was able to get it to the menu once, but now any machine just cant locate the boot server/file.

[george1421]

@cammykool OK based on the picture and the “Boot to FOG” message I see you are using dnsmasq and its at least running. Please post the dnsmasq config file here. If the config file looks good, then we will perform a packet capture of the dhcp process to see what the target computer is being told to do.