Unable to upload image

[albero]

Things are happening!

[EDIT]
Not good things anymore

[Tom Elliott]

So it’s, hopefully, working?

[albero]

I was in the middle of recording what I think was an error when all of a sudden the screen looked like [URL=‘http://ak0.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/529198/preview/stock-footage-television-static-noise-audio-included-black-white.jpg’]this[/URL]. I’m going to try to reproduce it.

[albero]

This post is deleted!

[Tom Elliott]

I don’t see the picture, I’m assuming meant to put in, but no worries,

Just describe what the error message says.

[albero]

So I was able to PXE boot on the Win 7 machine and it produced the following output seen in “2.png” attached below. After a few moments, the screen displayed static that can be seen in “3.png”.

I believed it to be frozen in this state (3.png), but as I was typing this the VM restarted and looks to be functioning again. I’m not sure what happened, but the task is still listed in “Task Management” for all active tasks as “queued” and there is a new empty directory in /images/dev on the FOG server whose name is the same as the MAC address of the machine whose image was to be uploaded.

[EDIT]
Found this post, [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/no-chip-hp-compaq-6910p.202/[/url] ,that may be pertinent. I’m reading through it now myself.

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/450_2.png?:”]2.png[/url][url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/451_3.png?:”]3.png[/url]

[Tom Elliott]

It’s not the error that’s giving you the issue.

Download my kernel:

[url]https://mastacontrola.com/fogboot/kernel/bzImage[/url]

Copy it to your FOG Server with the following commands: (ON THE FOG SERVER TERMINAL OR CONSOLE)
[code]sudo cp /tftpboot/fog/kernel/bzImage /tftpboot/fog/kernel/bzImage.orig
cd /tftpboot/fog/kernel/
sudo wget --no-check-certificate https://mastacontrola.com/fogboot/kernel/bzImage[/code]

Then try uploading again. You may have to recreate the task.

[albero]

Ahh okay, I’ll do that tomorrow or whenever is next possible for me. My FOG server is unable to be connected to the internet, so I’ll need to do some extra work to get the kernel onto the machine.

Thanks so much for the help so far! I didn’t expect such quality help from forums this quickly, but you’ve been great!

[Tom Elliott]

Okay,

I’m sorry about that. The “scribbly screen” as I like to call it, just means it can’t process the kms (kernel mode setting) properly. It should be creating the image though.

[albero]

Hello,

I’m finally able to get started on this again, and hopefully get it working. I’m going to put the kernel you linked above on the FOG server. Just to check, is this a 12.04 64 bit ubuntu kernel?

[Tom Elliott]

No,

It’s the tftpboot/fog/kernel/bzImage kernel.

[albero]

I’ve put the kernel in /tftpboot/fog/kernel/ then I restarted the FOG server and tried to boot from PXE (Onboard Network Controller). Thats when I receive the errors:
[INDENT=1]tps65010: no chip?[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]acpiphp_ibm: imb_acpiphp_init: acpi_walk_namespace failed[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]LocalTalk card not found; 220 = ff, 240 = ff[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]wistron_btns: System unkown[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]acer_wmi: No or unsupported WMI interface, unable to load[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]acerhdf: unkown (unsupported) BIOS version Dell Inc./OptiPlex 96/A14, please report, aborting![/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]Accounting clusters…[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]…[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]Cluster accounting failed at 2031117 (0x1efe0d): missing cluster in $Bitmap[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]…[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]Filesystem check failed! Totally 25936 cluster accounting mismatches.[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]ERROR: NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE![/INDENT]
[INDENT=1] [/INDENT]
I’ve been looking around for solutions on what to do, but none have been successful. Do you have any ideas?

[Tom Elliott]

Try following the instructions:

NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE!

Delete the task you’ve created. Then Boot the system and perform chkdsk /f, reboot the system twice after this has happened. They recreate the task and try again.

[albero]

That seemed to do the trick. Some things that I ran into that gave me unnecessary trouble (I’m partially really dumb):
[INDENT=1]chkdsk /f didn’t actually run fully because some process had the disk locked[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]When booting from the network it looked like it froze after starting to throw the same error as explained before.[/INDENT]
[INDENT=2]I restarted the box instead of letting it continue (which if I had done would have let it finish successfully).[/INDENT]
[INDENT=2] [/INDENT]
Thanks again for all your help! I really like this forum, both for the support and it’s layout. Did you guys make the forum from scratch?!

[Peter Sinclair]

[I][quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 20836, member: 7271”]albero,[/quote][/I][quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 20836, member: 7271”]

[I]On a windows server, this is done in DHCP. Under, I think, option 66, you’ll put the pxelinux.0 file, and option 67, you’ll input your fog server’s IP address.[/I]

Not being cheeky and correct me if im wrong but in Windows server:
[INDENT=1]066 Boot Server Host Name = fog server IP or hostname if you have added it in DNS[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]067 Bootfile Name = pxelinux.0[/INDENT]
Pls let me know if I’m wrong so i can change my DHCP scope options - thx[/quote]

[Tom Elliott]

You are not wrong, I just had my order wrong.

[Leroy Brown]

“unable to start task” and “unable to connect to tftp server”
My current setup is Ubuntu 10.04 *updated/upgraded
Installed Fog with the following settings;
Server is 192.168.1.10
DHCP is 192.168.1.1
DNS DHCP is 192.168.1.2
I’ve installed the DHCP server option for FOG, because I want this on a laptop to make it portable for imaging, along with an 8 port switch. I am totally off the network.

Ubuntu username is fogger
Password is password

Everything installed great, I am even connect to the ‘defaultmember’ storage without problem.
I now get PXE successfully sent to my clients, but only after I sudo \etc\init.d\dhcp3-server start manually after reboot
I am able to do a full host registration, I can see my client and the MAC.
BUT, when I now to go assign a task, (upload in this case) I get the infamous “unable to start task” and “unable to connect to tftp server” error.

I’ve double checked that everything username is “fogger” and “password”. This includes the GUI change and the config.php file.
I’m successful from the command line with ftp’ing with the username and password above.

Any ideas?

[Tom Elliott]

As you’re getting the error when starting the task, what do you get when you try to create a simple directory in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/?

My guess is the permissions are not correct.

To make sure all is fine in the tftpboot directory make sure you run the command:
[code]chown -R fog:root /tftpboot[/code]

This is a very simple command that I find people saying they’ve performed, but in actuality, the they’ve only run:
[code]chown fog:root /tftpboot[/code]

While they look the same, I assure you they are not. The -R tells the chown command so set everything within the directory to change ownership as well.