Dell XPS13 with Displaylink DA100
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@george1421 Hi george1421. I did the steps in the link , step6 , I checked everything. and now when I stick the usb in the laptop and boot from usb, I now see “ipxe…initialising devices” which is good news! But then I got the “dhcp failed” message and press s to go to ipxe or reboot.
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@froydo Well that is a bit sad. Do you see any reference to a mac address? If not then iPXE can’t see the nic. What is going on the iPXE kernel doesn’t appear to have the driver for that displaylink adapter.
Do you have an older usb 2 to ethernet adapter? Since we aren’t using the built in PXE firmware we can use any usb to ethernet adapter that is supported by iPXE.
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@Junkhacker no problem Junkhacker at least there are alternatives
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@george1421 Hi george1421 , yes it is sad
I was jumping for joy when I saw the initial ipxe message and it didn’t get very far. And no there was no mac address reference. I’m still using the Displaylink dock DA100 - we only have these types to plug into the usb for the Dell pcs. Anyway I will check with my office manager on Monday if she has other types just in case. -
@froydo this may seem like a silly test, but try having both plugged into the computer and ethernet. i’ve seen situations were a nic was supported by bios for pxe (and would load ipxe) but ipxe didn’t work well with that nic (so it wouldn’t work) but if another adapter was connected that ipxe DID work well with, it would switch over to using that one. after all, ipxe will attempt using all available network adapters once it’s loaded.
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@Junkhacker I plugged in the ethernet into the Dell laptop via the dock and dock to usb when trying to boot via the usb stick where ipxe is on another usb port, and I’ve changed the dock - unfortunately only one type we have over here - so no surprise it didn’t work either - same dhcp fail message. Any other ideas I can try to pursue ? It feels so close but yet so far…
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@froydo Well if Plan B doesn’t work there is a Plan C, but we loose the tight integration between FOG and FOS. It does work but you have to follow the rules. https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7727/building-usb-booting-fos-image
If you USB boot FOS, you MUST tell the FOG server to image/capture before you boot with the FOS USB stick. So if you want to capture an image, you setup the FOG server to capture and have an active task out there pending, then USB Boot FOS and it will work very nice.
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@froydo to get it to work natively, you’ll need to buy a supported adapter. it looks like Dell makes one that will work:
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19621206 -
@george1421 ok thanks george1421, I’ll try this out.
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Many thanks george1421 . The FOS method worked. I was able to capture the image finally
Case closed.
