IPXE issue
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I have tried every config file on the other thread now with to no avail with our various dell PCs, the one that has been recommended (1312) works intermittently.
I really do love fog, and it has been a MASSIVE tool here at our organisation. But we may have to roll back to 0.33 build.
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what model dells have you been having problems with? perhaps we can get other people testing with the same models
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I have quite a few, all produce the same intermittent issue with the menu.
We have the following models
Optiplex 3010
Optiplex 7010
Optiplex 390
Optiplex 380
Optiplex 760
Latitude E6420 & E6500All the other features of fog work well, we are still capturing and deploying images across the network and just enabling and disabling the boot option in dhcp as and when we need it. (Havent tried any win8 or multipoint 2012 image captures yet, always failed on .33)
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what OS is your server?
checking around the office, we have used the ipxe boot method for, at least, the 3010,7010,390, and E6420 of those -
[quote=“Seb, post: 27647, member: 7969”]I have tried every config file on the other thread now with to no avail with our various dell PCs, the one that has been recommended (1312) works intermittently.
I really do love fog, and it has been a MASSIVE tool here at our organisation. But we may have to roll back to 0.33 build.[/quote]
When you say “roll” back to 0.33 build, do you mean the revision where it was still known as 0.33? I would say that’s likely not going to work in your situation.
Reason being is 1312 IS the undionly.kpxe that was being use.
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[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 27768, member: 7271”]When you say “roll” back to 0.33 build, do you mean the revision where it was still known as 0.33? I would say that’s likely not going to work in your situation.
Reason being is 1312 IS the undionly.kpxe that was being use.[/quote]
Sorry, that was a typo, i meant 0.32b
thanks for all you’re doing guys, we are running a ubuntu 12.04 LTS server, we tried to upgrade to 14.04 but it said our dell 2950 wouldn’t cope.
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I’m having issues where our desktops (using mostly M4A785 boards from ASUS) are hanging at initializing PXE when using our new Ubuntu 14.04 + Fog 1.0.1 server.
I’ll try the new image and see what happens.
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try:
[code]sudo wget -O /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe https://mastacontrola.com/ipxe.kpxe[/code]This should have the drivers for all the cards that IPXE has and should allow initialization of the device.
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Thanks, I was able to get one of the test machines to boot properly. Now I will wait and see if the other ones break again.
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[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 27829, member: 7271”]try:
[code]sudo wget -O /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe https://mastacontrola.com/ipxe.kpxe[/code]This should have the drivers for all the cards that IPXE has and should allow initialization of the device.[/quote]
With this one in a room of 30 dell 3010s every one continually restarts and loops when they get the 040ee119 error.
I tried [URL=‘https://mastacontrola.com/undionly.kpxe’][I][SIZE=12px]https://mastacontrola.com/undionly.kpxe[/SIZE][/I][/URL] and with this one in the same room and around 50% of them got to the menu first time, the others would restart between 2-5 times before working.
I tried this again and it was different pcs every time that worked.
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[quote=“Seb, post: 28247, member: 7969”]With this one in a room of 30 dell 3010s every one continually restarts and loops when they get the 040ee119 error.
I tried [URL=‘https://mastacontrola.com/undionly.kpxe’][I][SIZE=12px]https://mastacontrola.com/undionly.kpxe[/SIZE][/I][/URL] and with this one in the same room and around 50% of them got to the menu first time, the others would restart between 2-5 times before working.
I tried this again and it was different pcs every time that worked.[/quote]
Try all of these if you can, and report back:
[code]wget -O /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/undionly.kpxe
wget -O /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/undionly.kkpxe
wget -O /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/ipxe.kpxe
wget -O /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/ipxe.kkpxe
wget -O /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/ipxe.pxe[/code] -
[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 28248, member: 7271”]Try all of these if you can, and report back:
[code]wget -O /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/undionly.kpxe
wget -O /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/undionly.kkpxe
wget -O /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/ipxe.kpxe
wget -O /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/ipxe.kkpxe
wget -O /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/ipxe.pxe[/code][/quote]All these tests are done in a room of 30 Dell 3010s as they are the most common machines we have.
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[]50% work first time, the rest take 2-10+ retries
[]80% work first time, the rest take 2-10+ retries
[]0% work, restarts continuously
[]0% work, restarts continuously
[*]0% work, restarts continuously
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[LEFT]Just butting in here with some info on the model’s network card:[/LEFT]
[LEFT] [/LEFT]
[LEFT][B]Dell Optiplex 3010: [/B]:eek: two possibilities depending if Standard release or AIO release )[/LEFT]
[I]Realtek 5M02W Integrated Controller[/I]
[I]Broadcom 57XX Integrated Controller[/I] -
[quote=“Wolfbane8653, post: 28273, member: 3362”]
Just butting in here with some info on the model’s network card:[B]Dell Optiplex 3010: [/B]:eek: two possibilities depending if Standard release or AIO release )
[I]Realtek 5M02W Integrated Controller[/I]
[I]Broadcom 57XX Integrated Controller[/I][/quote]Cheers, the ones i’ve looked at are all “[I]Realtek 5M02W Integrated Controller”[/I]
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Well I finally got everything working for me. The issue turned out not to be fog related or kpxe file related at all…The issue was a second DHCP server running on my network - I tracked it down using WireShark. I inherited a mess of a network and should have thought of looking for a rogue DHCP to begin with. Anyways things are working now though it does seem a bit slow I can deal with that I am doing my first upload and it started at about 250MB/min it’s running at 350MB/min right now.
I don’t know what could be the cause of that I have this running on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM on a Hyper-V 2012 R2 Server only one other VM on it that isn’t heavily utilized. Anyways if anyone could point me in the right direction with the speed that would be great otherwise oh well at least its flipping running!
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decreasing your compression rate can speed up uploads, but will have little effect on downloads, which are quite fast anyway
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[quote=“Steven Chew, post: 28339, member: 21664”]Well I finally got everything working for me. The issue turned out not to be fog related or kpxe file related at all…The issue was a second DHCP server running on my network - I tracked it down using WireShark. I inherited a mess of a network and should have thought of looking for a rogue DHCP to begin with. Anyways things are working now though it does seem a bit slow I can deal with that I am doing my first upload and it started at about 250MB/min it’s running at 350MB/min right now.
I don’t know what could be the cause of that I have this running on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM on a Hyper-V 2012 R2 Server only one other VM on it that isn’t heavily utilized. Anyways if anyone could point me in the right direction with the speed that would be great otherwise oh well at least its flipping running![/quote]
VM’s have known “slowness” issues on upload compared to physical systems typically, but as Junkhacker states, the compression affects upload speeds as well. In 0.32 there was no “easy” way to adjust the compression rating, but with 1.X.X, you can specify this in FOG Configuration->FOG Settings->FOG Boot Settings->FOG_PIGZ_COMP slider bar. 9 means MAX compression which basically means it will be the slowest to upload, but compress to the smallest size. 0 means least compression but takes up the most space on the server. You can play with these settings to see if it will help you out.
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Is anyone else getting this issue still? Or have others been sorted out? Maybe there is something wrong with our spec?
We are currently running ubuntu 12.04, should i try going to 13.04/13.10? -
I will talk to Tom today and get some new pxe’s to try out see if we can get it down to one solid file. I’m currently using undionly.kpxe.1312 from release 1312. It seems stable for my machines.
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try the latest undionly.kpxe, a longer max wait time for DHCP responses has been added and it seems to help a lot
