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    Tauric
    last edited by Tauric Dec 5, 2023, 7:01 AM Dec 5, 2023, 1:00 PM

    I’m running parallels with bridged networking on an intel iMac, i’m attempting to deploy a windows image to it (successful on other machines and VM’s on the same LAN) but i’m getting the following error:

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    Not sure why this behaves so differently as it shouldn’t be ARM and is EFI like my vmware vm’s, I assume this is an issue with init.xz not being pulled across, but I’m not really sure why

    -Tauric

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      george1421 Moderator @Tauric
      last edited by Dec 5, 2023, 9:48 PM

      @Tauric I have doubts that bzImage is getting transferred to this computer. I can tell you that bzImage will boot even if init.xz is not sent to the target computer. You will get a vfs not syncing error. In the fog configuration->fog settings page. Press the expand all button then search for “log” change the default log level from 1 to 7. Save the setting then try to pxe boot the target computer again. Logging level of 7 will cause the linux kernel “bzImage” to print out a lot of debugging information. That will tell us if the kernel is booting.

      At the ipxe prompt you can download the init.xz file (as a test) by keying in initrd=init.xz and press enter. Lets see if we get any useful error messages.

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        Tom Elliott @george1421
        last edited by Dec 6, 2023, 10:51 AM

        @george1421 There’s the other possibility the system is running 32 bit os and only attempting to load a 64 bit kernel (or vice versa)

        At least that’s the first thing that comes to my mind.

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          Tauric @george1421
          last edited by Dec 6, 2023, 12:35 PM

          @george1421

          Hi George, thanks for the response,

          Apologies if I’m doing things wrong here, the log level was set as 4 in the fog settings, changing it to 7 doesnt seem to have done much here. Also for the initrd=init.xz it returns ‘command not found’ unless i’m entering this in the wrong place or something?

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          As a sidenote, the http transfers are far slower than normal in this parallels environment, I’m testing the Hirens BootCD image I have on the server and its moved the boot.wim 3% in the time I’ve typed this out.

          I have found a workaround for this as parallels does let you import .VMX files from VMware, I have to assume its some kernel incompatability or something.

          Thanks for the suggestions

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            Tom Elliott @Tauric
            last edited by Dec 6, 2023, 4:22 PM

            @Tauric This “parallels” is from a M series mac?

            Just a question.

            The M1/M2/M3 chipsets are ARM based if I recall correctly.

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              george1421 Moderator @Tauric
              last edited by Dec 6, 2023, 8:25 PM

              @Tauric said in Can't deploy/register/debug with parallels:

              Also for the initrd=init.xz

              That is precisely why you should not trust my memory. For a little clarity this is what boot.php file creates for the auto reg function.

              kernel bzImage loglevel=7 initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=275000 web=http://192.168.50.23/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 storage=192.168.50.23:/images/ storageip=192.168.50.23 nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 loglevel=7 mode=autoreg
              imgfetch init.xz
              

              So the command at the IPXE> prompt would be
              initrd init.xz or imgfetch init.xz There is no equals = sign in the command.

              And just to tag along with what Tom said, when I first read your post I was confused if your target computers are ARM or Intel? You menitoned Intel iMac, and then a little later ARM. But I took the ARM reference as it should work because its not ARM based.

              OK by setting the logging to 7 and you don’t see a bunch of text on the screen then the kernel (bzImage) is not starting up. So at the IPXE prompt I would try kernel bzImage to see if it is really transferring it. The boot command at the IPXE> should try to run the kernel.

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