SOLVED Imaging Surface Pro 4 using Fog USB bootdisk

[mandrade]

Hey Guys,

Imaging a Surface Pro 4 using a USB stick with FOG on it. I’m getting an error as can be seen in the attached image.

Any ideas why this could be? USB kernel outdated perhaps?

[Tom Elliott]

@george1421 We did get this working.

ALthough the problem specifically here with not network booting had to do more with the fact the keyboard was not recognizable.

[george1421]

Did you get this working?

There are 2 different ways of booting a device from a usb stick.

1. Via iPXE into the FOG menu (easy or harder way tutorials)
2. Via placing the FOS engine on the USB and booting from there.

I’ve been working with another forum member on option 2 and it seems both have the same issue with hinfo.txt file not being created, or being created incorrectly.

[mandrade]

@Tom-Elliott,

Tried both like I said Rookie

[Tom Elliott]

Trying to catch you in chat.

[mandrade]

@Tom-Elliott ,

Tried with external keyboard no diffrence.

[Tom Elliott]

You tried easy or hard way?

[mandrade]

@Tom-Elliott ,

I tried to follow this article but am unable to create the bootdisk. Granted I could be doing something wrong, I am a noob when it comes to Linux.

[Tom Elliott]

And the only ISO FOG creates is within /tftpboot/ipxe.iso (maybe this is what you were looking for?)

[Tom Elliott]

Further help, in case you need it:

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=USB_Bootable_Media

[mandrade]

@Tom-Elliott ,

keyboard doesn’t seem to work. Yeah tried that!

Perhaps I should try connecting an external keyboard. Will give that a try and will get back to you.

[Tom Elliott]

Beyond that message, you may need to follow the original instructions you used to create the first FOG USB Bootdisk.

[Tom Elliott]

@mandrade Have you removed the device, replugged it back after about 5 seconds, then press the Enter key as it suggests?

[mandrade]

@x23piracy ,

Because if I just pxe boot from the NIC directly I get:

I’m using the snponly.efi bootfile.

[x23piracy]

Why do need to boot from usb stick? There is a usb network card available that supports pxe.
here: https://forums.fogproject.org/post/84600

[mandrade]

@Tom-Elliott said in Imaging Surface Pro 4 using Fog USB bootdisk:

working-1.3.5

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback. I was already running Version 1.3.5-RC-12.

Now I also seem to have corrupted my USB bootdisk You wouldn’t by any chance have an iso for me?

[Tom Elliott]

The init’s up right now have had a minor correction to address the problem presented here.

The issue was a switch from WGET to Curl. As we switched to curl, a piece of extra information was being passed not allowing the request to return the proper data.

I’ve corrected this in the latest, though you will likely need to install the working-1.3.5 branch to see the change. That or you can download the current inits directly with:

wget -O /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/init.xz https://fogproject.org/inits/init.xz
wget -O /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/init_32.xz https://fogproject.org/inits/init_32.xz

[mandrade]

@Wayne-Workman ,

I assume these tutorials are out of date:

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6350/usb-boot-uefi-client-into-fog-menu-easy-way/12

and

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=USB_Bootable_Media

They’re not working for me. Granted I could be doing it wrong!

[mandrade]

Thought as much. Now to try and figure out how to do this. Last time I was provided an iso. Anyway I’ll give that a try! Thanks

[Wayne Workman]

I’d say make a new stick using the latest FOG inits and kernel, lots of changes have been happening with them lately.