FOG not PXE boot anymore

[Hunter Bonner]

I am running FOG 1.2.0 on Ubuntu 13.10. I previously was able to capture and image and deploy one. That was about 2 months ago.

I tried to PXE boot today, and the client gets an IP address, and it starts initializing, but then something pops up really fast, so fast that I cannot pause the screen fast enough with an error that says:

Unable to download…unsupported

Then it exits the PXE screen.

[ch3i]

@Hunter-Bonner Hi, If your installation is the same than about 2 month, I think that is not a FOG problem
Is there a new network configuration or DHCP ?

[Hunter Bonner]

well, our DNS servers changed. also DHCP. But again, it’s showing that it’s getting an IP address when it first begins the PXE.

[ch3i]

@Hunter-Bonner What are your 66/67 dhcp options ?

[Hunter Bonner]

@ch3i Sorry I do not know what you mean. I’m a total n00b to FOG.

[ch3i]

@Hunter-Bonner said:

@ch3i Sorry I do not know what you mean. I’m a total n00b to FOG.

To boot your clients on PXE, you need :

• An IP >> it’s OK
• A DHCP option that specified the TFTP server (option 66) : the ip of the server >> NOK
• A DHCP option that specified the boot file (option 67) : pxelinux.0 >> NOK

[Hunter Bonner]

@ch3i How do you verify these options? I mean is this something I should be able to access from the web portal or the server directly and if so where exactly?

What I do know is that I went through the entire setup and did give my server a fixed IP. I’ve PXE booted before and deployed and captured images, but now all of a sudden I cannot.

[ch3i]

@Hunter-Bonner said:

@ch3i How do you verify these options? I mean is this something I should be able to access from the web portal or the server directly and if so where exactly?

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Modifying_existing_DHCP_server_to_work_with_FOG

[Wayne Workman]

It’s likely you just need to set 066 and 067 in your DHCP Scope Options, as ch3i said.

This is done on your Windows DHCP server, under your scope options.

[Hunter Bonner]

@ch3i I remember setting this up, but I just checked again. It’s setup correctly.

[Wayne Workman]

@Hunter-Bonner said:

@ch3i I remember setting this up, but I just checked again. It’s setup correctly.

Is it possible for you to take a short video of the error you’re seeing? Upload to youtube and post here?

[ch3i]

@Hunter-Bonner Could you try to connect the FOG server over TFTP, using WinSCP maybe

[Wayne Workman]

You could also go through this:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshoot_TFTP

[Hunter Bonner]

@Wayne-Workman did that one earlier. Enabled…still not working.

[Hunter Bonner]

@Wayne-Workman http://youtu.be/133MbAc_-pw

[ch3i]

@Hunter-Bonner You have a http error access, could you try to access that url with a web browser ?

[Hunter Bonner]

@ch3i what URL? I cannot even see it. And are you wanting me to try and access it from the client?

[ch3i]

@Hunter-Bonner said:

@ch3i what URL? I cannot even see it. And are you wanting me to try and access it from the client?

Sorryyyyyyyyyyyyyy, it’s the iPXE url error lol

[ch3i]

As I asked :

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/5218/fog-not-pxe-boot-anymore/13

[Hunter Bonner]

@ch3i I just went to ipxe.org. Can access it fine.