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    After Deploying Image, reboot loop; Dell e6520; Fog 0.32

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      BryceZ
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      I renamed the article in question to “Boot looping and Chainloading” as that seems like a more appropriate description of the article, and added it to the Troubleshooting section of the wiki.

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        silentsoul
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        Is there anyway to make this work with the gui boot menu? It just hangs at “booting from local disk” if you use the gui menu.

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          BryceZ
          last edited by

          Sounds like there might be a typo on your default file. Would you mind posting your copy of /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default?

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            silentsoul
            last edited by

            It works perfect if i make the changes to default using the text menu. But if i switch to gui it hangs, I think I need a clarification on:

            [LIST]
            [*]Edit /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default to include the following DEFAULT option (only set this if you’re using the text based menu) and LABEL entry:
            [/LIST]

            gui default.

            DEFAULT vesamenu.c32
            MENU TITLE FOG Computer Cloning Solution
            MENU BACKGROUND fog/bg.png
            MENU MASTER PASSWD $1$0VRbLZUP$Jg1l3BT4NEtJmxyFo8MSG.
            MENU HIDDEN
            MENU AUTOBOOT

            menu color title1;36;44 #ffffffff #00000000 std

            LABEL fog.local
            localboot 0
            MENU DEFAULT
            MENU LABEL Boot from hard disk
            TEXT HELP
            Boot from the local hard drive.
            If you are unsure, select this option.
            ENDTEXT

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              BryceZ
              last edited by

              If you just want to modify fog.local so it looks like:
              [CODE]LABEL fog.local
              kernel chain.c32
              append hd0
              MENU DEFAULT
              MENU LABEL Boot from hard disk
              TEXT HELP
              Boot from the local hard drive.
              If you are unsure, select this option.
              ENDTEXT[/CODE]
              Pretty sure that’s what you’re wanting.

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                silentsoul
                last edited by

                That did it, would you mind if i tidied up the page on the wiki to make it a bit more clear?

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                  BryceZ
                  last edited by

                  Go for it! I think I spent all of two minutes typing that up off the top of my head, so any clarifications or better wording would be greatly appreciated.

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                    silentsoul
                    last edited by

                    Updated:
                    [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Boot_looping_and_Chainloading[/url]

                    Thanks BryceZ

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                      ssx4life
                      last edited by

                      Thanks for updating the wiki. 😃 Things seem to be moving in a better direction with these new forums 🙂

                      On a side note most Dell E series have this chain loading issue.

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                        dvlsg
                        last edited by

                        Used BryceZ’s instructions to help resolve my problem with bootlooping as well (we typically only have the Dell Latitude E series in our organization).
                        Just wanted to say thanks for the wiki, it was very helpful.

                        Is there any talk of including chainloading in newer versions of FOG?

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                          BryceZ
                          last edited by

                          Chainloading is a workaround for a bug most often seen with Dell BIOS, and does add additional levels of complexity that do not need to exist for everyone. So the developers are hesitant to build chainloading in. And as long as it’s simple to implement after the fact they’d prefer to keep it that way.

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                            dvlsg
                            last edited by

                            Interesting. Makes sense, though. Thanks for the response! I’ll keep that in mind whenever I’m working with Dell machines.

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                              Nicoli
                              last edited by

                              This is the first issue I ran in to after 3 years of using FOG on a 500+ client network.

                              [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Boot_looping_and_Chainloading[/url]

                              Easy to follow instructions and works a treat! Thanks for all the help everyone

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                                Erik Tank
                                last edited by

                                We have a whole slew of Optiplex 790 Dells, and after applying this fix, the graphical menu displays, counts down from 3, then the countdown starts over again. I am using the exact syslinux version as the guide shows. I have setup a new fog server and tried the setup instructions and it behaves the same way. So either I am doing something identically wrong after following the guide, or perhaps this fix does not work on the Optiplex 790s? Any help?

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                                  Erik Tank
                                  last edited by

                                  For anyone with my problem described - it was due to me spelling kernel improperly… I had kernal chain.c32 instead of kernel chain.c32… live and learn. 🙂

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