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    • R
      rubbishfoo
      last edited by

      I have setup FOG Server 0.32 on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 & configured my Active Directory and DHCP properly.

      I can PxE boot just fine from the machines I’ve tested into the FOG menu.

      Here is the weird:

      I have a system that did not complete imaging due to an external drive being connected to it (doh! - forgot to unplug it after moving the unattend.xml to the sysprep folder).
      This system failed to image due to the drive being enormous (2TB external - while the FOG server has about 500gb right now).
      What is incredibly strange… is that each time I boot this system, the PxE boot takes it back into attempting to upload it’s image. No Menu - just attempts to re-run the job EVERY time.
      I can verify that there are no active tasks. The image that I was going to capture no longer exists (I removed it) - the HOST does not even exist in the system any longer.

      Is there anything I can do to “reset” to the normal PxE menu? Also… I am not terribly familiar w/ PxE in general… is this something where the packets or PxE cached a job & will not release it due to never hitting a “complete” or a “return”.

      Thanks - FOG sure is interesting so far!

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      • Jaymes DriverJ
        Jaymes Driver Developer
        last edited by

        look on your fog server in the folder /tftpboot/ look for files that match the mac address of your machine and delete the file, you should then be able to boot into the pxe menu normally.

        WARNING TO USERS: My comments are written completely devoid of emotion, do not mistake my concise to the point manner as a personal insult or attack.

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          rubbishfoo
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          [quote=“Jaymes Driver, post: 24691, member: 3582”]look on your fog server in the folder /tftpboot/ look for files that match the mac address of your machine and delete the file, you should then be able to boot into the pxe menu normally.[/quote]

          Thank you sir - I have found the file, removed it & everything appears to be normal again.

          I dug through the forms a little bit & also the solution here: [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-newbie-trying-to-fix-this-automatic-cloning-state.10110/[/url]

          I wasn’t exactly sure of the terminology involved…

          Your picture looks like me last night w/ my son! Hahah!

          Thanks again for your help!

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          • Jaymes DriverJ
            Jaymes Driver Developer
            last edited by

            Glad I could help, and thank you for using the search button!

            That’s my oldest Daughter in the picture, my girl snapped a picture of us once while we were napping 🙂

            WARNING TO USERS: My comments are written completely devoid of emotion, do not mistake my concise to the point manner as a personal insult or attack.

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