Infinite booting loop

[neodawg]

[quote=“bardicverse, post: 4361, member: 1314”]actually, that would probably be the case. Dell hard drives come partitioned with a recovery partition, or disk 0, and the next partition is the main body partition, which would probably be disk 1. I’ll have to test that theory out later. currently uploading 2 new images to the server.

I think in future practice, I’m going to wipe the dell recovery partition outright, so I can use the resizable image option. But since we’re already underway with the summer workload, it’ll have to wait.[/quote]

I think I can answer that and say no deleting the recovery/OEM junk partition will not work, as the first thing I do when setting up a new pc from any OEM is put in a Windows disk and remove all that.

I think BryceZ probably means that to the BIOS it is being listed as hd1 vs hd0, as in its possibly connected to SATA port 1 vs port 0. I think it has to be on the server side, as many other people have gotten it to work.

Are you using 4.04 of the syslinux? I tried 4.05 and that didnt work at all.

[bardicverse]

not sure what version of syslinux. To be honest, I can always just use the one time boot menu when i need to reimage, etc. Right now I’m just trying to roll out these images asap.

[Jon Vinther]

I have just set up FOG at my place of work. It has been working fine for all of our computers so far (apart from those running in hardware raid)
We use mainly Dell, and so far it works fine on both Precision T1500 and T3500, STUDIO laptops and a few different Optiplex.

However on out XPS laptops, I get the same cycle spoken about in this post.

It reaches the Gui boot menu, counts down from 3 seconds, and then quits its.
But instead of booting the hdd, it reboots and tries all over again.

From this post I tried to make this change to /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

LABEL fog.local
[B]kernel chain.c32 [/B]
[B]append hd0 [/B]
MENU DEFAULT
MENU LABEL Boot from hard disk
TEXT HELP
Boot from the local hard drive.
If you are unsure, select this option.
ENDTEXT

However that put all of my machines in a cycle inside the Gui instead, continually counting down from 3.

I also tried hd1 and other abbreviations (hd0,0 and so), to no avail.

Also, if I escape out of the Gui, and try to do a hd0 or hd1, it says it cant be found in the kernel.

Could it have another name?

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate on all the machines.

For now I have changed it back to default, so it can be used on the other machines while I figure this out.

Sincerely
Jon

[BryceZ]

Did you add/replace the files listed in the [URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FIX:_Chainloading_alternate_SYSLINUX_to_force_boot_from_first_hard_drive’]chainloading[/URL] article on the wiki?

[Jon Vinther]

[quote=“BryceZ, post: 5243, member: 2”]Did you add/replace the files listed in the [URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FIX:_Chainloading_alternate_SYSLINUX_to_force_boot_from_first_hard_drive’]chainloading[/URL] article on the wiki?[/quote]
I did not, and that was my downfall ^^

After switching out the files, it was an immediate success!

Thanks for the help.

-Jon