Realtek 8111\8168 & undionly.kpxe -> hangs on Initialising Devices...

[drjam]

[quote=“andjjru, post: 28706, member: 575”]After much trial and error, this one is working well for me.
[url]http://mastacontrola.com/ipxe/f3d42-QUOTA_20-GOOD/undionly.kkpxe[/url][/quote]

Wish I could say the same.
Im using an AsRock MB with NIC Chipset: Qualcomm Atheros AR8171
It does not progress past the issues others mentioned already: ipxe initialising devices…

I can soft reset it.
iPXE works on other pcs.

The weird thing is, i was able to INITIALLY fog this pc. and now it wont log on to fog.
gawdammit some days i want to firebomb technology and software with as dirty-a-nuke as 3rd-world money can buy.

Am using 1.1.2 Fog as well. i did download the files mentioned here as well, and FTP uploaded them to my fog server’s tftpboot dir. I even restarted tft service on the fog server. and rebooted. and cried…i nearly hit my screen but that costs moeny to replace, so more work. sigh. what a run a round. And yes, i have googled till i have bue brass monkeyballs.

Glad others could sort this!

[Junkhacker]

you may have better luck if you upgrade to 1.2.0
the network boot files have been updated

[Excel Group]

Wont have any luck with 1.2.0 either as I’ve just upgraded to the same and having same issue

[Junkhacker]

then try the version in the svn trunk, they’ve been updated since 1.2.0 came out

[Excel Group]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 30923, member: 7271”]It sounds like you’re doing it “right” persay, but doing a lot of extra work.

Really, you can “cheatify it” as such.

No need to stop tftp-hpa or tftpd-hpa or isc-dhcp-server
Doing the first few steps just as you did:
[code]mv /tftpboot /tftpboot.bak
mkdir /tftpboot
cd /tftpboot
wget -r ftp https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/*
[/code]

Then move the undionly.kpxe file to undionly.kpxe_MAIN
[code]mv /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe_MAIN[/code]

Then just create symbolic links to undionly.kpxe from the file you want to try out. For example:
[code]ln -s /tftpboot/undionly.kkpxe /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe[/code]

You don’t have to keep rebooting services to test it. When you’re ready to try another file you simply:
[code]rm /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe; ln -s /tftpboot/<NEWFILETOTEST> /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe[/code][/quote]
When I try this im getting error 404 not found on the wget stage

[Junkhacker]

i’m guessing it’s the https:// try http://

[Excel Group]

Nope did exactly the same, I can click on the link no issue and it comes up in firefox

[drjam]

[quote=“Excel Group, post: 35168, member: 18178”]Nope [/quote]

Damn. I have just tried a different motherboard using realtec NIC hardware…FFS it wont even SEE the fog server now.
Is there a way to simply:
[LIST=1]
[]download the hardware vendor driver (what driver would that be??)
[]inject that driver into Fog somewhere (where?)
[/LIST]

if not, i need to do my work-around that works for the new Fog:

put the new hard drive into an OLD pc.
fog that hdd.
put that HDD into the new pc i WANT to work.
run

Seems a bit painful but it works at least lol.

[drjam]

whoa whoa whoa!!!
The latest issues was a gigabit cable not being compatible with our network…carry on citizens!
(but initial problem stands lol)

[Junkhacker]

[quote=“Excel Group, post: 35168, member: 18178”]Nope did exactly the same, I can click on the link no issue and it comes up in firefox[/quote]

then download it with firefox and upload it to the server. sorry if the instructions i gave were inaccurate, but i just copied/pasted them from another thread on the forum.

[eroneree]

@junkhacker This was exactly my issue. All I had to do was boot the offending laptops into Windows, shut down, and reboot. The “Initialising devices” hang was gone. My thanks, more than 3 years after the original post!

[george1421]

@eroneree What version of fog are you running? I understand the mechanics behind why that worked, but 3 years later those (pita) Realtek nics should be working correctly.

[eroneree]

@george1421 Running Fog 1.4.4. They mostly work correctly but once in a while I get the “Initialising devices” hang.

[philippe.willems]

I have the same issue on the Realtek 8168. But this is all under hyper-v. On my old pc, with intel NIC, everything worked fine, but now on my new PC with the Realtek 8168 I am running FOG as a virtual machine and a PXE client on. All on hyper-v. It looks like hyper-v inherits the properties of the host system, even with private networks. When using EFI it all works, just not on a legacy NIC.