PXE boot menu then black screen
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From the sounds of it sourceforge was down again today. Hopefully in the near future it will not rely on aoyrcedorge any more.
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I still can’t upload images, or do imaging from my server. I boot PXE into the menu and cannot do any of the menu options it just goes to a black screen on our hosts/desktops and on VM’s it just skips to the HDD after you select any PXE boot menu option. Is there a setting or something I am missing? We have thousands of computers on our network so a network imaging solution like this would really help us. It just never seems to work.
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The only thing that works on my PXE boot menu is memtest everything else after you select it goes to a blank black screen and nothing else happens.
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what tom meant about sourceforge being down is that your install most likely failed to download properly one or more of: bzImage, bzImage32, init.xz, and init_32.xz
you may even seem to have the files, but they may only be partial downloads -
oh so do I need to redo fog?
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rerunning the installer would likely fix the problem, yes.
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I ran the re-install of fog. Now when I perform anything from the PXE boot menu I get a brief init.xz message then black screen still. I just re-did 2 more spare servers and a VM 2 with ubuntu 12.04 and one with ubuntu 14.04.2. Ran the fog installs from 3 different people which were all the same mostly. Still nothing.
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[quote=“saltlife3122, post: 47284, member: 29668”]Ran the fog installs from 3 different people which were all the same mostly. [/quote]
what do you mean by this?
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I mean I followed 3 different how to install fog tutorials from 3 different people who posted them on the web.
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I have an update, my VM desktops seem to be working fine now with fog. They go through to full host registration. I am going to try and upload images now. Why does fog not work from physical desktops though?
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The desktops and laptops all get to the pxe screen then get the init.xz ok and black blank screen nothing else. VM is fine now
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[quote=“saltlife3122, post: 47293, member: 29668”]The desktops and laptops all get to the pxe screen then get the init.xz ok and black blank screen nothing else. VM is fine now[/quote]
how much time did you give the physical machines to boot?
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I used a different desktop, and it takes a while to boot but it does if I wait longer. My old server was .32 fog and it was never this slow to load up. But hey its working somewhat now just slow. Thanks for the help
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what model of computer are you testing with?
speed should be comparable with 0.32 on startup, and i think you’ll find that imaging tasks have sped up a bit -
everything we have are lenovo’s. We get to the PXE menu then it takes about a minute or 2 after for the black screen to go away into the fog prompt.
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would it hurt to go ahead and go into the trunk versions using svn
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I would say no. Everything is really stable in the trunk right now. That being said, back up anything critical if FOG is in production for you.
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Really sounds like its timing out at one of the steps. I second the recommendation to go SVN.
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I already am svn at 3395. I can get hosts to register once. Now when I go back into the pxe boot I get a bzimage error could not boot etc.
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Seemed like from all the installs no one had this many problems getting pxe to boot. So when I register and schedule the host to image it gives me that bzimage error. But all the new computers will register fine but imaging won’t happen because of this error.