I’ll work on all this and post back tomorrow with results. Thanks again for all this help.

The fog server and the devices are located on the same dumb switch. The dumb switch is connected to the network drop in my office (which comes from the core switches).

Thank you for offering the advice but that doesn’t seem to be the problem here.

Just to confirm I’ve unhooked everything and tried a different dumb switch. Still says network test failed.

I did the Compatibility test:

Dell 3450 - Network - Fail / Disk - Pass

Dell 3040 - Network - Fail / Disk - Pass

Both computers showed the 4.6.2 kernel that I downloaded when they started the compatibility test.

Hi again. I’m back and ready to try this all again.

Here’s where I’m at:

I’m working on 2 different computer types (which I know isn’t a good thing but they are having similar problems).

Dell Latitude 3450:
Using the newest kernal - 4.6.2 and it starts to go through fog, but when it gets to the part where it would actually image, it just gives me a black screen with a cursor blinking at the bottom. This also happens using 4.5.3. However, the computer does register with fog.

Dell Optiplex 3040:
Using the newest kernel - 4.6.2 and it won’t even register the host with fog. Says ‘host unable to register for the following reasons’ and then just goes to a black screen with nothing else (doesn’t list any reasons). Same thing happens on 4.5.3.

I’ve tried other kernel versions as well and none of them seemed to matter. At this point, I don’t know what to do. If anyone has a suggestion, I’m all ears. Thanks for your help so far with all of this!

So here’s where I’m at.

1 3450 laptop imaged using the 4.1 kernel version. The rest say ‘no boot device’ - which is what I’m assuming is expected.

Now when I change the kernel to 4.6.2 both - the 3450 laptops & the 3040 desktops say ‘unable to register host for the following reasons’ (and doesn’t list a reason) and then just sits a a black screen trying to register it.

I’m going on vacation and will be gone for a week, but I’ll be back to this thread after that. Thanks for the help so far, hopefully there will be an easy fix for why it won’t register when I get back.

4.1 is working on the Latitude 3450 laptops.

It is not working on the 3040 desktops. So 4.6 will work with the 3040?

If so, then I’ll leave the kernel at 4.1 until I’m done with the eight 3450 laptops that I need to image, then change it to 4.6 for the 3040 desktops.

Once again, thank you for your help.

@george1421 Ok, so what happened here is that I was also having the same issue on a laptop (Latitude 3450). I was doing all the configuration changes using that instead of the desktop (i forgot I posted about the desktop first). That’s my fault, I’m sorry.

Can you explain how to install the trunk kernels or what that means?

@george1421 Well, seems to be. Maybe it will hang during imaging but it’s going well so far. I’ll come back if things break again.

Thank you for your help

Success!!

I had to actually go back and use kernel 4.10 for it to work. The newest kernel didn’t allow it to register but 4.10 did. It’s imaging now so hopefully it loads up.

Thanks for all the help!!!