Imaging with fog from ipxe command line

[Thewafflication]

I am a college student staying in a dorm. I just want to play around with fog. So I installed fog in a fedora 25 virtual machine. I had a few kinks, but no major issues. I do not have access to get a entry made to automatically pxe boot to my server.

I have a laptop connected to the network as well. I was able to register it. I booted from the iPXE cd command line.

chain http://serverip/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php

This brings me to the fog menu where I registered it.
I then went into the management web interface and created an image, assigned it to the host, and scheduled the server to take an image immediately.

I rebooted the laptop. Again with iPXE to

chain http://serverip/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php

Which brings me back to the fog boot menu.
From what I’ve seen online, it should start to image the laptop, but it doesn’t.
If I go to register host, it says the host is already registered and reboots.
In the management interface it shows the task as active.

Any ideas on what to do?
I am running the latest git version btw.

[Tom Elliott]

This is because of your parameters.

You aren’t passing the systems Mac address at all. Take a look at the /tftpboot/default.ipxe file

It will have the same type of chain command followed by ##params I think.

[Tom Elliott]

@Tom-Elliott of course you could simple tftp the file to the client too. Something like:
chain tftp://ipoffogserver/default.ipxe

[Thewafflication]

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[Thewafflication]

@Tom-Elliott I am not super familiar with iPXE or tftp.

chain tftp://ipoffogserver/default.ipxe

resualts with

tftp://ipoffogserver/default.ipxe ... ok
params: command not found
Could not boot .... (error code)

and

chain tftp://ipoffogserver/default.ipxe ##paramd

returns

the same.

[Tom Elliott]

@Thewafflication are you changing out ipoffogserver?

[Thewafflication]

@Tom-Elliott of course! (10.51.4.48)

[Tom Elliott]

@Tom-Elliott are you using a custom ipxe file? We create one for this purpose too.

It’s under the tftpboot folder with the name ipxe.iso

[Tom Elliott]

I’m suggesting this file because the ipxe.iso you are using appears to not allow the params ipxe cmd

[Thewafflication]

@Tom-Elliott I am using the one found here:
http://boot.ipxe.org/ipxe.iso
I dont have any more cd’s, but I will try to burn yours to a usb stick with rufus.
Will take some time.

[Thewafflication]

I do not have a usb drive to spare.
I will buy an extra in next couple of days.

[Wayne Workman]

@Thewafflication You’re at a university. Go find a computer technician and just ask them for a small spare flash drive. I promise they will have an entire box of them just laying around of ones they’ve found while doing their jobs. I would know, I worked at university about 5 years ago as a tech.

[Thewafflication]

@Tom-Elliott @Wayne-Workman I solved my problem with a workaround.
Using my iPXE cd that doesn’t have param, I booted to the ipxe.pxe provided with fog.
From there I was able to boot default.ipxe.
TL;DR
Boot CD.

chain tftp://myip/ipxe.pxe

shoots some error.
I press s to go to command line.

param

returns nothing.

chain tftp://myipdefault.ipxe 

Text flies by, and the computer begins to create an image!

Thanks for the help!

[Wayne Workman]

@Thewafflication Good work. You may think about taking your laptop off of the network so you can run DHCP on your virtualized fog server.