Solved PXE-E32 error, unable to boot to fog from pxe

[K.Hays]

I’ll start by saying that I am new to Ubuntu. I’ve been working to create an image that coincides with our network for a few months and finally got it down, to then find out that it does not work with our current imaging software. So i looked into it and decided to try Fog. We had a FOG server implemented a few years back, so it should be possible. I’ve tried multiple different versions of ubuntu and am currently running 12.04. I believe i have worked everything out correctly, because i can ‘get Undionly.kpxe’ from another workstation with no problem. When i try to pxe boot any computer though it will not work. I also have option 66 and 67 changed on both dhcp servers, as we have two.

[Junkhacker]

just stumbled across this thread, felt i should mention that the latest FOG trunk is still working on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[K.Hays]

@Wayne-Workman True, but the reason i posted this was not solved by reloading. In fact reloading hadn’t helped with it at all before posting this, because i did have 14.04 + Trunk at one point and was still getting this error. The issue behind the original post was PXE-E32 error which was solved by changing option 66 and 67 for not only just the dhcp servers, but all of the ip pools also, which is something we hadn’t thought to check until wireshark showed somewhere it was set to the old fog server. But, we now have fog up and running regardless, so thanks everyone! You’re all great!

[Wayne Workman]

@Sebastian-Roth The real issue was Ubuntu 12 with FOG Trunk. Solved by Ubuntu 14 with FOG Trunk.

[Sebastian Roth]

Can’t believe it… this topic got five pages full of posts and dozens of hours of work from different people all in three days. And now this was all fixed by re-installing FOG trunk…

[K.Hays]

So, i reinstalled ubuntu 14.04 and downloaded the trunk version of FOG, and it works! Haven’t tried to imaging anything yet as i am out of time but i will soon. Thanks to everyone who helped out with this problem, i appreciate it!
edit: Just started to upload an image successfully, thanks again for all the help! ill update this as soon as i know it completed without error.

[george1421]

@K.Hays said in [PXE-E32 error:

So, whats the consensus here. What do i need to do to get this setup.

I’d hate to say this, but if you have the time, nuke and pave this installation. If you want to continue with Ubuntu then go with 14.04 LTS. If you want the RHEL variant then Centos 7 (minimum installation). Then install the trunk version directly don’t install 1.2.0 stable first just install the trunk. You may still have external problems, but once we get you on a stable install then we can work on the external issue that may exist. I don’t like it that you’ve spent all this time to get FOG going. Its not that hard to get setup. But there are quite a few parts that the FOG project doesn’t have control over in play here.

[K.Hays]

So, whats the consensus here. What do i need to do to get this setup.

[Wayne Workman]

@george1421 said in [PXE-E32 error:

@Tom-Elliott said in [PXE-E32 error:

@george1421 I try to make them not care really but for 1.3/trunk I’d say 14 or higher for Ubuntu 8 of higher for Debian 6 or higher for rh based and 22 or higher fedora. I don’t think arch really cares lol.

@Wayne-Workman is ^^ this something that should be noted in the wiki pages? (at least on the upgrade to trunk page)

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation#Requirements

[Wayne Workman]

@george1421 Because it’s broad and unbiased and advice that will help you avoid problems, yes.

[george1421]

@Tom-Elliott said in [PXE-E32 error:

@george1421 I try to make them not care really but for 1.3/trunk I’d say 14 or higher for Ubuntu 8 of higher for Debian 6 or higher for rh based and 22 or higher fedora. I don’t think arch really cares lol.

@Wayne-Workman is ^^ this something that should be noted in the wiki pages? (at least on the upgrade to trunk page)

[Tom Elliott]

@george1421 I try to make them not care really but for 1.3/trunk I’d say 14 or higher for Ubuntu 8 of higher for Debian 6 or higher for rh based and 22 or higher fedora. I don’t think arch really cares lol.

[K.Hays]

@Tom-Elliott should i just reboot?

[Tom Elliott]

@K.Hays I think it was from it failing to install the first time. Apache crashed ungrAcefully and the pod it expected to find no longer existed

[george1421]

@Tom-Elliott said in [PXE-E32 error:

@Wayne-Workman I think it’s because he’s on an unsupported Ubuntu now. Lts is good for security but package lists trunk is expecting might not be available

Wow this is quickly escalating to wiping and reloading the OS. Since he made references to trying multiple version of ubuntu. What is the one recommended OS that will work for sure with 1.2.0 trunk (since that will be the future of FOG).

[Tom Elliott]

@Wayne-Workman I think it’s because he’s on an unsupported Ubuntu now. Lts is good for security but package lists trunk is expecting might not be available

[K.Hays]

@Wayne-Workman now i got this
Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully

• Stopping FOG Computer Imaging Solution: FOGMulticastManager
  …done.
• Stopping FOG Computer Imaging Solution: FOGImageReplicator
  …done.
• Stopping FOG Computer Imaging Solution: FOGScheduler
  …done.
  mysql stop/waiting
  mysql start/running, process 25428
• Stopping web server apache2
• There are processes named ‘apache2’ running which do not match your pid file which are left untouched in the name of safety, Please review the situation by hand.

is this because i had my web gui open?

[Wayne Workman]

@Tom-Elliott Right, my issue also started with that failing.

[Tom Elliott]

@Wayne-Workman I highly doubt it as its failing to install Apache.

[Wayne Workman]

@K.Hays said in [PXE-E32 error:

@Wayne-Workman Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/apache2-bin_2.4.16-4+deb.sury.org~precise+4_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/apache2-data_2.4.16-4+deb.sury.org~precise+4_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
thats whats at the bottom sorry not 7084

@Tom-Elliott do you think this error is related to this: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7085/ubuntu-server-14-dhcp-fails

Also, @K-Hays please try re-running the installer now.