Change Needed for VM to PXE boot to FOG...

[Jaymes Driver]

[quote=“Jason Shoemake, post: 26194, member: 6565”]Running the latest version of fog .33b and I can confirm this is an issue with Hyper-V. Works fine from VirtualBox[/quote]

In my experiences… HyperV and VMWare don’t work well with fog without alterations.

[SPeedY]

Hi guys, I am experiencing exactly the same issue in an Optiplex 780 and Optiplex 9020. I am running the latest version using bisync. Ver 0.32 worked fine for my Optiplex 780, but not for the 9020 so I decided to give 0.33b a try. I also try downgrading the kernel to 3.8.8 Core and 3.3.3 Core and I get the same error.[IMG]https://www.dropbox.com/s/450k0cceypfcsza/fog.JPG[/IMG]

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[amiller]

I am also receiving this same error message as Speedy, when attempting to pxe boot a Hyper-V VM with Fog 1.0.1. I downloaded kpxe directly through svn (as suggested above) and have tried booting with multiple kernels. I have not experienced any issues using Fog 1.0.1 to pxe boot to physical machines. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

FOG Version: 1.0.1
OS Version: Ubuntu Server 12.04

[TanK203]

Not to be a pain, but is there any update on this? I’m running FOG 1.1.1 with build 1639 of iPXE. I’m getting this error when trying to boot from my Hyper-V VM. Screenshot below.

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[dmft]

[QUOTE]Ok. I just figured out that I had the wrong network adapter booting to iPXE. But now, I’m getting errors when trying to load iPXE.

“Could not configure console: No such file or directory ([url]http://ipxe.org/2d8c203b[/url])”
“Could not boot: No such file or directory ([url]http://ipxe.org/2d8c203b[/url])”

Then it just boots to the VHD like normal.[/QUOTE]

Open your web interface and finish the install…

[sudburr]

[quote=“BigMan99211, post: 24152, member: 21932”]Ok. I just figured out that I had the wrong network adapter booting to iPXE. But now, I’m getting errors when trying to load iPXE.
“Could not configure console: No such file or directory ([url]http://ipxe.org/2d8c203b[/url])”
“Could not boot: No such file or directory ([url]http://ipxe.org/2d8c203b[/url])”
Then it just boots to the VHD like normal.
Any ideas?[/quote]

Has there been any movement on resolving this issue? I am experiencing it also on my Hyper-V 2012. Physical machines have no issue.

Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS x64
Fog Project 1.1.2

Both clean virgin installs.

This is a game stopper for upgrading from 0.32 .

[Tom Elliott]

And you try and use the files found in SVN trunk

[sudburr]

I’ve tried:
[CODE]wget https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/undionly.kpxe -O /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe[/CODE]
and
[CODE]
cd /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/
rm init.xz init_32.xz
wget https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/web/service/ipxe/init.xz
wget https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/web/service/ipxe/init_32.xz
[/CODE]

Plus I’ve tried [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/ipxe-issues-work-around.10727/[/url] . The symbolic link works, but the same error results.

The physical machines I’ve tried so far all work, it is only hanging up with my Hyper-V 2012 VMs with the same two errors as the original poster.

[Tom Elliott]

It will be ugly, but can you try this:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/dell-optiplex-320.10872/#post-31511[/url]

[sudburr]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 32252, member: 7271”]It will be ugly, but can you try this:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/dell-optiplex-320.10872/#post-31511[/url][/quote]

Editing {fogwebdir}/lib/fog/BootMenu.class.php changing line 600:
[PHP]print “console --picture $this->booturl/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80\n”;[/PHP]
to
[PHP]// print “console --picture $this->booturl/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80\n”;[/PHP]
… appears to be working! … oh wait… nvm.
I get to the Control Key prompt to enter, then the username/password page, but then the same error occurs.

[Tom Elliott]

Can you comment out all instances of console within those files? I believe there’s only one but I could be way off.

[sudburr]

There can be only ONE!

ahem… There is only one instance of “console” in that context. There are two other entries as variables “consoleblank=0”

And now, somehow, I’m back to the original condition without getting to the ControlKey and Username/Password.

I read somewhere else, someone was having an issue where they could only get things to work immediately after rebooting the server. So I tried that.

If I time the PXE boot on my VM to hit the FOG server within the first few seconds of restarting, I can get all the way to the PXE menu. I quickly then tried to do a Quick Host Registration.

/bzImage… ok
/init.xz… ok
tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed
The VM window re-sizes to what looks like 1024x768, then if I’m lucky, I might get to:
piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: SMBus base address uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr
… otherwise it’s hanging after the screen re-size.
I then disabled the firewall:
[CODE]sudo ufw disable[/CODE]
My VM is showing CPU usage above idle (12%) while I’m stuck.
Meanwhile we’re looking into the SQL server.

[sudburr]

Alrighty… something’s working.

I’ve been stepping up through the kernels and have landed on unofficial 3.15.3 that appears to be working … okay-ish.

I’m grabbing a linux server vm right now and it spitting up errors like watermelon seeds along the likes of:

bug: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code partclone.image/2520

… but it is still working through the upload.

Now to blow it all away back to bare metal and see what fixes are really needed.

[sudburr]

… but wait! There’s more!

This current configuration with this kernel works but is extremely slow to proceed after “/init.xz… ok” on the physical machines I was using for testing. It eventually pops up a failure to configure the network adapter. (an Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection)

[sudburr]

Alright, here is where I’m at:

01> Login Ubuntu Server 14.04 (x64) / Execute BASH Shell as SuperUser

sudo su

02> Change Hostname

hostname servername

03> Install a new HDD
( [url]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive[/url] )

lshw -C disk
fdisk /dev/sd?
n p 1 <enter> <enter> w

04> Quick Format Second HDD as NTFS

mkfs.ntfs -Q /dev/sdb1
mkdir /mnt/temp
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/temp
ls -la /mnt/temp
umount /mnt/temp

05> Attach Second Volume by Appending AutoMount Entry to File System Table

vim /etc/fstab
“i”

all spacing is tabs

FOGStore for images

/dev/sdb1/imagesntfsdefaults00

[ESC], [SHIFT]“:”, “wq”

06> Create MountPoint

mkdir /images

07> Set permissions on /images

chmod 777 /images

08> Mount the New Volume

mount /images

09> Download latest SVN of FogProject

cd /opt

wget [url]http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/freeghost/FOG/fog_1.1.2/fog_1.1.2.tar.gz[/url]
or ?
wget --no-check-certificate [url]http://mastacontrola.com/fog_trunk.tar.bz2[/url]

10> Extract

tar -zxf fog_1.1.2.tar.gz

11> Disable Firewall for Fog

ufw disable

12> Create DHCP Reservation

reboot

13> Login Ubuntu Server 14.04 (x64) / Execute BASH Shell as SuperUser

sudo su

14> Install Fog

cd /opt/fog_1.1.2/bin/
./installfog.sh

@ What version of Linux would you like to run the installation for?
2
@ What type of installation would you like to do?
n
@ What is the IP address to be used by this FOG Server?
<verify the reservation address>
@ Would you like to setup a router address for the DHCP server?
n
@ Would you like to setup a DNS address for the DHCP server and client boot image?
n
@ Would you like to change the default network interface from eth0?
n
@ would you like to use the FOG server for DHCP service?
n
@ This version of FOG has internationalization support, would you like to install the additional language packs?
n
@ Would you like to donate computer resources to the FOG Project?
n
@ Are you sure you wish to continue?
y
@ Press enter to acknowlege this message.
<enter>
@ Configuring mysql-server-5.5
<password>
@ Did you leave the mysql password blank during install?
n
@ Please enter your mysql password:
<password>
@ Press [Enter} key when database is updated/installed.

Using a browser visit [url]http://0.0.0.0/fog/management[/url]
Select: Install/Upgrade Now
@ Update / Install Successful!

<enter>
@ Send Notification?
n

@ Script done, file is /var/log/foginstall.log

15> Restart

reboot

16> Login Ubuntu Server 14.04 (x64) / Execute BASH Shell as SuperUser

sudo su

17> Update hostname file with server’s new name

vim /etc/hostname
“I”
servername
[ESC], :wq

18> Update hosts file for server’s new name
vim /etc/hosts
“I”
line 2 : 127.0.1.1 servername.domainservername
[ESC], :wq

19> Restart

reboot

20> Configure DHCP Options for PXE for Subnet Scope

Option 066 Boot Server Host Name “0.0.0.0”
Option 67 Bootfile Name “undionly.kpxe”

21> Change Web Interface User Account

Visit [url]http://servername/fog/management[/url]
Login as user: fog password: password
Change username to: <username> / password: <password>

22> WorkAround for Hyper-V iPXE compatability

vim /var/www/fog/lib/fog/BootMenu.class.php
“I”
old line 600 : print “console – picture …”
new line 600 : // print “console – picture …”
[ESC], :wq

23> Update Kernel (from Developer’s site – [url]https://mastacontrola.com/fogboot/kernel/bzImage[/url])

cd /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe
mv bzImage bzImage_orig
mv bzImage32 bzImage32.orig

wget --no-check-certificate [url]http://mastacontrola.com/fogboot/kernel/bzImage[/url]
wget --no-check-certificate [url]http://mastacontrola.com/fogboot/kernel/bzImage32[/url]

24> Update to latest undionly.kpxe

cd /tftpboot
mv undionly.kpxe undionly.kpxe.orig

wget [url]https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/undionly.kpxe[/url] -O /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe

iPXE is working. The problem now is finding a kernel that works on both the physical hardware and Hyper-V virtual machines…

So far I’ve tried for bzImage:
3.15.3 original32 for 1.1.2
3.15.1 original for 1.1.2
3.14.3 original for 1.0.1
3.14.2
3.12.5
I used 3.12.5 on 0.32 successfully.

[netbootdisk]

Had the same problem with 1.1.2 and Hyper-V 2012R2.

I just made the {fogwebdir}/lib/fog/BootMenu.class.php line 600 hack conditional…

[PHP]
if (substr($_REQUEST[‘mac’],0,8)==“00:15:5d”){
print “# Hyper-V MAC address detected - no console background\n”;
} else {
print “console --picture $this->booturl/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80\n”;
}
[/PHP]

…Now all users still see the corporate branded background - and I can still capture master images in Hyper V

[sudburr]

What kernel (bzImage) are you using ?

[sudburr]

Loving the conditional code. All my system samples accept the iPXE 1.0.0.0 (53653) that comes with Fog 1.2.0 (svn 2041) after the conditional code is injected; now at line 601-605.

I will branch off into my own Topic next post as I report on my testing the menu options and kernel.

[SuP3R_Ch1cKeN]

Worked for 1.0.1. Different line number however. Thanks a lot netbootdisk.

[KKTwenty101]

Apologies for grave digging but this seemed to be the best thread for the same issue (I searched on google and on the forum but couldn’t find a homogeneous solution. Anyway for others searching the same issue. I too had FOG 1.2 working fine on physical hardware but my hyper-v VMs were throwing up http://ipxe.org/2d8c203b “could not boot” errors. This is indeed due to a change needed in /fog/lib/fog/BootMenu.class.php - hyper-v cannot render the bg.png apparently.

for me, the line print "console --picture $this->booturl/ipxe/bg.png needed commenting out. Or you can make it conditional (on mac address)

if (substr($_REQUEST[‘mac’],0,8)==“00:15:5d”){
print “# Hyper-V MAC address detected - no console background\n”;
 } else {        
print "console --picture $this->booturl/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80\n";
}

Again sorry for grave digging but since this is top of the google tree then hopefully this can help someone else.