Problem with INIT.xz @ 74%
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Good Day,
I’ve got a problem with fog on a new series of laptops. I thought it might be driver related so I grabbed the latest version of fog from the MASTER branch as IPXE is reporting it’s up to date with the master branch. It downloads the bzimage then when init.xz is running it’s stopping at 74%. I’ve left it running for hours it doesn’t move past this issue. I’ve tried other EFI files and it either doesn’t go anywhere or stops at 19%. I’m running snponly.efi. It takes me to the highest number.
Many thanks
Duane Ashwell -
@dashwell There is two/three things I can think off right away.
I take it this is new hardware that has the issue, where the legacy hardware works just fine? If yes, then the problem is between your target hardware and iPXE. The FOS Linux kernel is not in the picture just yet.
- Make sure there are no firmware updates available for this target computer.
- Since you are running FOG 1.5.10 you should have the latest version of iPXE, but here are instructions on updating iPXE by recompiling it locally: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/15826/updating-compiling-the-latest-version-of-ipxe?_=1679660899460
- You are using snponly.efi. This uses the built in network driver in the firmware of the target computer. Since this is a new target hardware its possible that the built in firmware driver has a few bugs. As a test, switch your boot loader from snponly.efi to ipxe.efi. This ipxe.efi has all of the most common network drivers built in. Lets see if you get a different response trying to pxe boot using this boot loader.
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@dashwell said in Problem with INIT.xz @ 74%:
new series of laptops
Beside the excellent hints George already gave I might ask which make and model exactly are we talking about?
