Asus EEE PC Imaging Errors
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@Wayne-Workman Roger that, thats what i was thinking but i wanted to ask the experts.
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So new error I have found. Just wanted you guys to be aware. So the Asus EEE PC that i have been having trouble will eventually not time out and get the pxe image and boot all the way into fog and work. It seems to take multiple;e reboots and/or attempts to connect to the server then it goes right through., Not sure if maybe it’s some type of delay but i’m looking into it and trying to figure out what exactly is going on.
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@EAHarvey said:
So new error I have found. Just wanted you guys to be aware. So the Asus EEE PC that i have been having trouble will eventually not time out and get the pxe image and boot all the way into fog and work. It seems to take multiple;e reboots and/or attempts to connect to the server then it goes right through., Not sure if maybe it’s some type of delay but i’m looking into it and trying to figure out what exactly is going on.
Do you have Dual DHCP ?
Can you look for a potential IP conflict issue with the client and the fog server?
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@Wayne-Workman the ip of the server is 172.29.2.250 and DHCP is giving an address of .2.25 so seems ok as duplicate addresses. I have dual NICS in the machine. One is my FOG network and the other is standard 192.x.x.x ATT network. I wonder if for some reason it’s trying to grab DHCP from the ATT? If it was though, you would think it would be a issue with all the machines and not just these netbooks. Food for thought.
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@EAHarvey said:
@Wayne-Workman the ip of the server is 172.29.2.250 and DHCP is giving an address of .2.25 so seems ok as duplicate addresses. I have dual NICS in the machine. One is my FOG network and the other is standard 192.x.x.x ATT network. I wonder if for some reason it’s trying to grab DHCP from the ATT? If it was though, you would think it would be a issue with all the machines and not just these netbooks. Food for thought.
To clarify, your FOG server has two NICs? The netbooks only have one, right?
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@Wayne-Workman Yes that is correct.
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@EAHarvey have you changed the bootfile to undionly.kkpxe as suggested?
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@Wayne-Workman Was that changing the 0.0.0.0:67 or 69 and trying it? If that is waht you mean then yes i have tried on each setting.
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@EAHarvey Nope. This is done in your DHCP settings (usually).
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@Wayne-Workman Ok let me double check…
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@Wayne-Workman Yes both of my servers are set to filename “undionly.kpxe”;.
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@EAHarvey We are suggesting that you change them to undionly.kkpxe
Note the extension.
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@Wayne-Workman oh crap. lol my bad. checking now.
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@EAHarvey Ok that worked like a champ. I did a little digging and found out that the kkpxe allows the machine to use its Manufacturer. Booted straight up when i did that. Going to do some more testing but it’s looking good. I should have my backup machine finished today or tomorrow.
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@EAHarvey So is there a way to have a debug in place in 1.2 so i can see why my uploads for a single disk are erroring out and rebooting?
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@EAHarvey Yeah but it’s not really user friendly or easily implemented… If you want to debug, I’d suggest moving to FOG Trunk. It’s built right into the deployment window as you see below:
Here are instructions and information on FOG Trunk, I suggest you read through it before you buy.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Upgrade_to_trunk -
You guy’s can mark this solved. I know we talked about a lot of different issues but thank you so much for all of it. I have learned so much more about the software than i knew. I look forward to helping you guys and chatting further on issues. Thanks so much.
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EAHarvey, did you get your Asus Eee PC to upload/download a FOG image? I know this is an old thread, but I have about 30 or so Eee PC N455 computers that I would like to image. When LAN booting, I see the dhcp & pxe configuration but then it simply boots from the hard drive. I never get the FOG menu, any errors, etc. I am running FOG 1.2.0.
Any help would be appreciated.
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@dcorpening You would probably be best off upgrading to FOG Trunk. It would also be helpful if you could post a short video of the boot process so we can see it, or a series of pictures of the last thing the computer is saying before exiting to the local Windows.
