Surface 4 Network boot and Image

[Psycholiquid]

OK next snag, I was able to upload the image to the FOG server, no probems there, did all four partitions on a out of the box Surface 4.

Once it reboots and goes to teh FOG menu and I let it sit through the 3 second screen I get the following error:

Chainloading failed, hit ‘s’ for the iPXE shell

Any ideas?

[Tom Elliott]

@Psycholiquid Change the exit type. It’s probably trying to boot legacy style, try the grub_first_found_windows item.

[george1421]

@Psycholiquid That will be the exit type for that specific registered device in fog, its probably not sanboot, try grub.

[Psycholiquid]

@Tom-Elliott OK that is causing it to loop on the menu over and over.

I am trying GRUB_FirstHDD

[Psycholiquid]

No dice there either

[Tom Elliott]

@Psycholiquid What if you use exit?

[Psycholiquid]

@Tom-Elliott Trying it now.

[Psycholiquid]

@Tom-Elliott Back to Chainloading failed

[Tom Elliott]

@Psycholiquid what if you remove the network stuff?

[Psycholiquid]

@Tom-Elliott network stuff?

[Tom Elliott]

@Psycholiquid Yeah, have it boot without being plugged into the network.

[Psycholiquid]

@Tom-Elliott I changed it to SANBOOT and it worked. Testing again to verify

[Psycholiquid]

Excuse me I changed it to REFIND_EFI

[Psycholiquid]

Yep that worked, but what is that?

I am assuming it is just finding the boot partition on the hardware EFI

[Tom Elliott]

@Psycholiquid Yes. That’s why I suggested exit, but why is it trying to chainload?

[Psycholiquid]

@Tom-Elliott No clue

[Psycholiquid]

Testing capture and cloning now that I have most of the kinks worked out. Will report back.

[Psycholiquid]

Arghhh, Surface EFI partition. I got it copying over but that was a pain. Recovery partition next.

[Wayne Workman]

Can we do a summary of what’s been done so far that actually mattered? Have you successfully imaged yet? And, the Exit to HDD type that works is rEFInd ?

[Psycholiquid]

@Wayne-Workman I have no successfully imaged yet, I am afraid that if I image it with my image it will not have the EFI partition nor the recovery partition. If that is needed by the device it might brick it and I will not be able to get back into it.

So this is what I am seeing as partitions:

I am not sure if there is a UEFI section on the board of the device or if it just reads everything off of the disk. If the latter is the case when I put my image on there it wont know what to do. So I am attempting to ad those partitions into my image before I move forward.

I am hoping that if something bad happens I could always just boot from a USB flash drive to reinstall but I am still researching.

This is the Partitioning of my image:

I just added the RAW partition. I have some software here I am going to try and replace it with the partition I pulled off with a quick image form that software. Unless someone has already hit this part and knows a way around it or how to do it correctly.