Boot from Hard Disk from Fog Server PXE doesn't work

[engineerfranko]

Hi there,

New to Fog here, I’ve managed to get it to load the PXE server, grab an image. However the automated boot to hard disk doesn’t appear to work, it just loops.

In the host options, I’ve tried all the combinations SANBOOT, GRUB_FIRST_HDD, GRUB_FIRST_FOUND_WINDOWS e.t.c - I even loaded Grub onto my Windows boot disk. I added \efi\microsoft\boot\bootmgfw.efi to my Host Primary Disk and still no joy.

The primary disk is an M.2 SSD0 - i wonder if this is why it can’t find it?!

Any help here would be amazing!

[engineerfranko]

@Sebastian-Roth

Managed to get this to work by downgrading rEFInd to version 11 as per this:
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11993/refind-pxe-booting-issue

[engineerfranko]

I noticed that Partdisk calls up this as the main disk:
/dev/nvme0n1p3

so added it to host primary disk, alas no joy.

[Sebastian Roth]

@engineerfranko Welcome to the forums.

However the automated boot to hard disk doesn’t appear to work, it just loops.

The so called chainloading process depends on hardware, BIOS mode (legacy or UEFI) and OS installed on disk and can be a it tricky. From what you wrote I get you have Windows installed, right? Is this machine legacy BIOS or UEFI? Have you tried other hardware to see if those can chainload into Windows?

so added it to host primary disk, alas no joy.

This setting does not play a role when chainloading the OS from disk. It’s only important when you have several drives in a machine and want to image/deploy the secondary one

[engineerfranko]

@Sebastian-Roth thanks for this, I will look into the chainloading. Is this something you can configure via the web gui?

[Sebastian Roth]

@engineerfranko said in Boot from Hard Disk from Fog Server PXE doesn’t work:

Is this something you can configure via the web gui?

Well you can switch between the chainloading options you mentioned, like SANBOOT and so on.

On top of that some options have special settings like REFIND can be tuned in a config file /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/refind.conf.

Once again I may ask if you have legacy BIOS machines or UEFI? There are two different settings in the web UI for those?

[engineerfranko]

@Sebastian-Roth

Hi Sebastian,

Apologies, these are UEFI devices.

[engineerfranko]

@Sebastian-Roth

Managed to get this to work by downgrading rEFInd to version 11 as per this:
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11993/refind-pxe-booting-issue