Client boot to HD goes to memtest.
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@AlexMaxwell I don’t suppose you’d be willing to share how you got winPE to work through pxe using an iso? I tried to do that many moons ago to no avail.
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Fog Configuration --> FOG PXE Boot Menu Configuration --> Exit to Hard Drive Type
Exit to Hard Drive Type was set to SANBOOT. I did change it to EXIT and that seems to fix the issue.
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@Arrowhead-IT I started putting together a how to last week so @Wayne-Workman can create a wiki page. Let me get a link to that document.
Here is the outline. Both methods work. I wrote the document from a brain dump, so the instructions may have a few kinks but it does work.
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6284/booting-mdt-2013-litetouch-with-fog
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@Arrowhead-IT
Obviously, you’ll have to adjust paths.- Install windows ADK
- Launch Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment (basically a glorified cmd prompt). I always run this as administrator, but I’m not sure it’s required here.
a. mkdir c:\temp\winpe
b. copyxpe x86 c:\temp\winpe\x86 - (Optional) Add drivers as per https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825070.aspx
a. dism /Mount-Image /ImageFile:c:\temp\winpe\x86\media\sources\boot.wim /index:1 /MountDir:C:\temp\winpe\x86\mount
b. dism /Image:C:\temp\winpe\x86\mount /Add-Driver /Driver:d:\share\winpe10.0-Drivers-A01-6XFM6\winpe\x86 /recurse
c. dism /Unmount-Image /mountdir:C:\temp\winpe\x86\mount /commit - Delete bootfix.bin (to get rid of the ‘press any key’ prompt)
a. del c:\temp\winpe\x86\media\Boot\bootfix.bin - Create ISO
a. MakeWinPEMedia /ISO c:\temp\winpe\x86 c:\temp\winpe_x86.iso - Copy the ISO to the FOG server so we can access it via http
a. mkdir /var/www/html/winpe-build2
b. cp /mnt/myshare/winpe_x86.iso /var/www/html/winpe-build2/winpe_x86.iso - Create a new menu item from the FOG UI Fog Configuration->iPXE New Menu Entry
a. Parameters:
initrd http://${fog-ip}/winpe-build2/winpe.iso chain memdisk iso raw boot || MENU
Like:
- Test
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@Sebastian-Roth I don’t know what is causing it, but I test a few possibilities
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@AlexMaxwell You are a beautiful and wonderful person.
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@Sebastian-Roth This was a new install from Trunk. I am still very new to the Fog project and started with a fresh install of 14.04 server and latest Trunk (5676) at the time. The default setting in PXE boot menu was “sanboot”. I switched it to EXIT per LJedi post and it seems to fix the issue.
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I tried to reproduce this with 5686, and the boot menu looks fine, so I’d call it fixed . For anybody who’s seeing this issue, I’d recommend just changing anything in the iPXE Boot Menu, saving it and changing it back.
Now, to mark this as solved…
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Since this thread wandered a bit, I’m not sure if we really know the root cause here. I understand upgrading to the latest trunk, and then changing the boot menu and changing it back resolved the issue. But its not clear where the issue was introduced.
I guess we will have to just keep this in mind as/if others come across the same problem.
Thank you for reporting back on a solution.
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I added code last night to find out data and always failback to my suggested default in case it isn’t set.