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FOG kernel stalling out after PXE boot

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    Bob Fillmore
    last edited by Feb 2, 2012, 9:35 PM

    OK; I get the same message with the init.gz from the 0.29 package.

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      Bob Fillmore
      last edited by Feb 2, 2012, 10:38 PM

      And just to make sure I did everything right (since Unix is not my primary language):
      /tftpboot/fog/images$ ls -l
      total 36628
      -rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 30971987 2010-05-11 08:25 init.gz
      -rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 6530155 2011-11-30 16:12 init.gz.BACKUP

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        Peter Smee
        last edited by Feb 3, 2012, 3:47 AM

        Hey Bob, I am about to throw an older video card into one of my new machines, I will let you know how it goes.

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          Bob Fillmore
          last edited by Feb 6, 2012, 10:29 PM

          OK, I swapped out the Quadro 2000 and tossed in a Geforce 9800GTX+ and PXE boots past the initial FOG menu. It complaines that the BIOS for the Z400 is unknown, but appears to function as expected. I’m going to pull an image now and see how it goes. 🙂

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            Bob Fillmore
            last edited by Feb 6, 2012, 10:37 PM

            OK, I swapped out the Quadro 2000 and tossed in a Geforce 9800GTX+ and PXE boots past the initial FOG menu. It complaines that the BIOS for the Z400 is unknown, but appears to function as expected. I’m going to pull an image now and see how it goes. 🙂

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              Peter Smee
              last edited by Feb 6, 2012, 11:45 PM

              Hey Bob, I did the same and it worked also, and I get the same unknown error on the MB too. I am lucky to have onboard Intel HDMI out that I just enable to image, I have also found that enabling the onboard video the computers will still image, though they will not show anything on the screen this is using the [FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333]Kernel - 2.6.36.1 Core.[/COLOR][/FONT]

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                Bob Fillmore
                last edited by Feb 7, 2012, 1:28 AM

                Looks like we now have a problem with the RAID. The workstations are using the MOBO built in raid controller to have the 2 HDs in RAID0 to increase performance. The 0.29 kernel didn’t see anything and just crashed, so I switched back to the old kernel and got an image. Unfortunatley, dropping the image back boots to a “Non system disk” error…

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                  Peter Smee
                  last edited by Feb 7, 2012, 4:40 AM

                  Did you build the image on the RAID? If yes try these instructions to see if it’s the boot sector then re-sysprep and re-image from that machine. [url]http://www.heiser.net/posts/3256[/url]

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                    Bob Fillmore
                    last edited by Feb 7, 2012, 9:23 PM

                    Yes; the image was built on a RAID. Tried the steps from the link you provided and the link that page referenced, but as far as DISKPART goes, it thinks the DISK has no partitions so none of that works.

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                      Bob Fillmore
                      last edited by Mar 12, 2012, 6:54 PM

                      At the risk of being accused of Thread Necromancy, I wanted to check in on these issues.

                      Seems that the OP & my initial issue was indeed caused by the Quadro in my case. Since my last post, I have researched Linux kernel-making, and have cooked up a kernel that now boots fine with the Quadro in the machine. Unfortunately, I am still unable to have FOG see the built-in Intel RAID controller properly (Firmware-RAID), and just can’t figure out how to get the kernel to see the RAID container instead of the individual disks… I see many posts about this issue with no solutions, and would very much like to get a solution.

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                        ttcircus
                        last edited by Apr 24, 2012, 3:36 PM

                        Nice one Bob! I had the exact same problem with the same hardware (z400), i swapped the quadro for a cheap geforce and it did the trick! Thanks!

                        [quote=“Bob Fillmore, post: 1085, member: 294”]OK, I swapped out the Quadro 2000 and tossed in a Geforce 9800GTX+ and PXE boots past the initial FOG menu. It complaines that the BIOS for the Z400 is unknown, but appears to function as expected. I’m going to pull an image now and see how it goes. :)[/quote]

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                          Bob Fillmore
                          last edited by Apr 24, 2012, 4:28 PM

                          Glad my efforts helped someone. 😄

                          Unfortunately, the lack of Firmware RAID support was a show stopper for us and I was forced to box my FOG servers and go with Acronis Snap Deploy. 😞

                          I really like what FOG has to offer and I hope that someone will figure out this Firmware Raid issue so that we can go back to FOG in the future. 🙂

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                            Bob Fillmore
                            last edited by Apr 24, 2012, 4:31 PM

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                              Kevin McCaughey
                              last edited by Sep 1, 2012, 5:36 PM

                              Also got a Z68XP-UD3 Gigabyte mobo and no dice for me. Wondering did anyone get it to work?

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