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    • C
      chief
      last edited by

      I have a number of Mac Pro late 2013 models I’m trying to PXE boot, but can’t get it to work.

      Pressing the Alt key on boot shows no network option. Have ipxe.efi in the Bootfile Name.

      Anyone any ideas? Thanks

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      • Tom ElliottT
        Tom Elliott
        last edited by

        Pretty sure you need to press and hold the N key for network boot.

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        • C
          chief
          last edited by

          N doesn’t do anything, just normal boot.

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          • Wayne WorkmanW
            Wayne Workman
            last edited by Wayne Workman

            https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201255
            According to that, Option+N

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            • C
              chief
              last edited by chief

              OK. So holding N doesn’t boot to network, just to the OS. Option N I just get a flashing world icon. Are there any settings in FOG I am missing to get it to boot from the network?

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              • Wayne WorkmanW
                Wayne Workman @chief
                last edited by Wayne Workman

                @chief Have you ever imaged a Mac with fog before? How old is this fog server? Has your fog server ever worked? What version of FOG are you running? What’s doing DHCP in your environment?

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                  chief
                  last edited by

                  No. First time testing a mac. Fog server on version 1.3.0-RC-36.
                  It works for PCs. DHCP is controlled by a windows 2012r2 server.

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                  • Wayne WorkmanW
                    Wayne Workman @chief
                    last edited by Wayne Workman

                    @chief It’s probably not getting a valid efi file to boot with. Follow this guide to setup bios & uefi co-existence on your dhcp server: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=BIOS_and_UEFI_Co-Existence

                    For a simple test, you can just change option 067 to ipxe.efi - but don’t be a slacker and manually change it every time you need it, that’s lame. Use the above guide.

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                      chief @Wayne Workman
                      last edited by

                      @Wayne-Workman the option 067 is set to ipxe.efi at the moment.

                      Will set up like the guide. Do I just need to add PXEClient:Arch:00002 etc or others for a MAC?

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                      • Wayne WorkmanW
                        Wayne Workman @chief
                        last edited by

                        @chief said in MacPro6,1 PXE boot:

                        the option 067 is set to ipxe.efi at the moment.

                        If that’s the case - something else is wrong. We should probably do a packet capture on the fog server to see what it is seeing. Give me a minute and I’ll find the command.

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                        • Wayne WorkmanW
                          Wayne Workman
                          last edited by

                          George, I’m stealing your post.

                          @george1421 said in PXE seems to work but Fog Cloning menu not displayed.:

                          OK I want you do this this process.

                          1. Install tcpdump on your fog server.
                          2. key in the following command on your fog server console. tcpdump -w output.pcap port 67 or port 68 or port 69 or port 4011
                          3. When tcpdump starts, then pxe boot your target computer until you reach the error.
                          4. On your fog server press ctrl-c to exit the tcpdump program.
                          5. Either review this pcap file in wireshark or post it here an I will take a look at it. If you don’t have enough credits the FOG Forum may keep you from uploading the pcap file here, so you will then need to use something like dropbox, box.com, or a google drive and share out the pcap file.

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                          • Tom ElliottT
                            Tom Elliott
                            last edited by

                            Is the Mac connected to the network? (preferably via cable as PXE over wifi isn’t something I’m aware of as being possible with the netboot environment)

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                            • C
                              chief
                              last edited by

                              I think the issue is with something else. The cable is connected. DHCP for OS working fine.

                              On booting a windows pc I get “No configration methods succeeded”

                              The pcap file on the windows pc booting is here
                              https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1xRaaq2F0-JNUhXb3N2UTZSRm8/view?usp=sharing

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                              • Wayne WorkmanW
                                Wayne Workman @chief
                                last edited by Wayne Workman

                                @chief All I see is two read requests for undionly.kpxe which is not what we should see if indeed your DHCP server’s option 067 is set to ipxe.efi because if it was, we would see requests for ipxe.efi and not undionly.kpxe

                                Do you have more than one DHCP server in your environment? is dnsmasq running anywhere?

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                                • C
                                  chief
                                  last edited by chief

                                  I have changed the DHCP environment to bios and uefi. So this windows PC should boot to the bios undionly.kpxe

                                  We only have one DHCP server. No dnsmasq

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                                  • george1421G
                                    george1421 Moderator @chief
                                    last edited by george1421

                                    @chief I also see only the tftp request. One is asking if the file exists and the second requesting the download of undionly.kpxe (which we know is only for bios based systems).

                                    Is your dhcp server, fog server and booting target computer on the same subnet (vlan)? That is a requirement if you want the FOG server to listen in on the dhcp messages.

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                                    • Wayne WorkmanW
                                      Wayne Workman
                                      last edited by Wayne Workman

                                      I guess he could always just do a wireshark capture on the dhcp server.

                                      I guess what would be the ultimate best is a third computer connected to the same computer network booting via a hub (not a switch). Just stick the hub between the target computer and the building’s network port, then use one of the hub’s spare ports to do a capture with. This will not work with a switch, only a hub would do it.

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                                      • C
                                        chief
                                        last edited by

                                        It is going between subnets. From server to PC subnets/VLAN.

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                                        • george1421G
                                          george1421 Moderator @chief
                                          last edited by

                                          @chief said in MacPro6,1 PXE boot:

                                          It is going between subnets. From server to PC subnets/VLAN.

                                          Is it possible for this test to get all three on the same subnet. We really need to the entire conversation here. If that isn’t possible, can you setup a wireshark system on the Mac/workstation subnet and collect a pcap of that workstation pxe booting. From this perspective we only need port 67 and port 68 data. We know from the fog server that the file is being requested. We just need the part of the conversation that leads up to the request.

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                                            Sebastian Roth Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            @chief I am wondering if you are aware of the wiki article: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOG_on_a_MAC

                                            As you see there is a kind of special DHCP setup to be able to netboot MACs. There is more to it than simple DHCP - see here https://static.afp548.com/mactips/bootpd.html. I am not aware of windows DHCP server being able to do this.

                                            A different approach would be to bless your MAC clients - setting to boot option to get a boot image from a hard coded TFTP server. Find a short description in the wiki article mentioned above.

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