Defined NIC boot first in BIOS, then it wont boot automatically thru pxe menu to HDD

[arnaudrigole]

Hi Fog Community!

Need your help for another problem…
All my test clients encounter the issue, Latitude E5510, E5450, E7240, Optiplex 390…

I defined the “NIC Boot” first in the bios and HDD in second, deactivated all the other options. When i start the computer, it look for an IP address, contact and boot on the fog pxe menu, then automatically “Boot on hard drive”.
At this step, i got a black screen, and just a dash flashing at the top left corner … pressing ctrl+alt+suppr to reboot won’t work, i need to press the power button to shutdown.

The only way to boot on Windows is to press F12 when it start and boot manually on HDD…

Anyone can help me ?
Thanks forward!

Arnaud

[Quazz]

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[Wayne Workman]

Sounds like they are all failing to PXE boot. Have you configured DHCP in your environment with options 066 and 067? We have wiki articles about this, there is also one on “Troubleshoot TFTP” that might help.

[arnaudrigole]

@Wayne-Workman

Hi, thanks for your reply.
I think you dont undestand. I’m able to boot on PXE, it works, the FOG menu is displayed, i cant perform an inventory of the computer or anything else.

But my computer boot first on it, and it should automatically boot from the hard drive after 3 seconds spent on “boot from hard disk” highlighted in this menu… but it doesn’t.

[Quazz]

What exit to hard drive type do you use? (under iPXE Boot Menu on WebGUI)

[Wayne Workman]

@arnaudrigole said:

I think you dont undestand.

yup, I misunderstood. Quazz is on the right path though.

[arnaudrigole]

@Quazz

“SanBoot style” is defined on “Exit to Hard Drive Type” option, is it good?

@Wayne-Workman
No problem, i’m french and i think that i don’t write english very well so … i understand why you dont understand me

[Sebastian Roth]

@arnaudrigole Well then, try different exit styles and see if this works for your machines.

[Tom Elliott]

@arnaudrigole dells especially seem to hate sanboot exit. Please try grub or exit style. I think it will help.

[Wayne Workman]

Optiplex 7010 in Legacy mode - sanboot
Optiplex 9020 in Legacy mode - grub
Optiplex 9020 in UEFI mode - rEFInd
Optiplex 380 - sanboot
Optiplex gx745 - sanboot

Soon I’ll have info on the Optiplex 7040.

[arnaudrigole]

@Wayne-Workman
@Sebastian-Roth

Ok thanks, i’ll try with another exit style. But its not very practical to define this parameter to the 500 hosts 1 by 1 ^^’ … we will see.

Have a good day.

[Wayne Workman]

@arnaudrigole said:

its not very practical to define this parameter to the 500 hosts 1 by 1 ^^’ … we will see.

That’s what groups are for.

[Tom Elliott]

@arnaudrigole there’s groups to individually set, and global if all systems are showing the same issues.