Thanks aaoyagi, when I realised nfs mount was needed it was easy.
Do you happen to have a working menu for parted magic? I’ve tried both ways with the iso mounted and exported and just path to the iso
Throws an error both times.

UPDATE: looked over it one more time and tried what Tom suggested- removed raw and iso
chain memdisk ||

Working fine, thank you kindly

@george1421

Sorry for the late reply,1) and 2) are both correct recompiled ipxe.efi works fine

@Sebastian-Roth
Lets say I deploy an image to host1 and join it to the domain. I want to image host2 next, so I thought maybe delete or just rename the host1 to host2 and start the deployment?

Looks like that worked, so I am just renaming the host since I’m using the same mac address

@sebastian-roth said in FOG server with dhcp client registration:

@Pikmin I don’t like guessing much so we should just take a look at the facts - the packets on the network that is. So get your client ready but don’t start it yet. Go to your FOG server and install tcpdump (sudo apt-get install tcpdump or sudo yum install tcpdump). Then run the following command and substitute x.x.x.x with the client’s IP address: tcpdump -w /tmp/boot_issue.pcap host x.x.x.x

Leave that command sitting there, boot up the client till it shows the error “Either DHCP failed or …”. Now stop tcpdump (Ctrl+c). Upload the generated file /tmp/boot_issue.pcap to your dropbox/google drive and post a link here or send me a private message if you don’t want to share this with the rest of the world.

I just went through the process of doing this when I discovered that after issuing spanning-tree portfast on all the interfaces it appears to be working now, so that’s the solution like in the other thread.
Thanks again for all your help george1421 and Sebastian Roth, I won’t forget the porfast setting ever again

@george1421

Sorry for the late reply,1) and 2) are both correct recompiled ipxe.efi works fine

@sebastian-roth

I’ve tried snponly.efi and it takes me to the boot menu

I’ve rebuilt the iPXE from source using your instructions and it’s working properly now

Thank you very much

Hi wonderful fog people

fog version 1.5.9

Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
IF: enp85s0 state: down mac: e8:6c:c7:72:04:54

no configuration methods succeeded (http://ipxe.org/040ee186)

The BIOS doesn’t allow the change to Legacy, so in UEFI mode

I’ve tried realtek.efi, no luck

There’s one other similar post on the forum but doesn’t appear to be resolved

Anything I can try to troubleshoot?

@george1421

In BIOS Advanced
Intel Rapid Storage Technology

Intel RST 17.2.0.3790 RAID Driver

Non-RAID Physical Disks:
PCIe 1.0, Micron_2200_something_something

Physical Disk Info
Status: Non-RAID
Controller Type: NVMe
Controller Interface: NVMe

I guess I’ll just set the SATA mode to AHCI for now, good enough for me.

Thank you for your insight and help with the matter

@george1421

Thank you, I’ve tried and no success

 uname -a
Linux fogclient.localdomain 5.5.3 #1 SMP Tue Feb 11 16:53:17 EST 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[Wed Feb 12 root@fogclient ~]# lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ec2] (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3e92]
00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Skylake Gaussian Mixture Model [8086:1911]
00:12.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a379] (rev 10)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a36d] (rev 10)
00:14.2 RAM memory [0500]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a36f] (rev 10)
00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a370] (rev 10)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a368] (rev 10)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a360] (rev 10)
00:17.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Intel Corporation SATA Controller [RAID mode] [8086:2822] (rev 10)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a33e] (rev f0)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a308] (rev 10)
00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a348] (rev 10)
00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a323] (rev 10)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a324] (rev 10)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 0e)
01:00.1 Serial controller [0700]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:816a] (rev 0e)
01:00.2 Serial controller [0700]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:816b] (rev 0e)
01:00.3 IPMI SMIC interface [0c07]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:816c] (rev 0e)
01:00.4 USB controller [0c03]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:816d] (rev 0e)

@george1421

You want me to change back from AHCI to RST with Optane in the BIOS and then check the logs?

I thought I pasted the output of uname -a from the debug

EDIT:

Set the BIOS SATA mode back to RST

Only interesting thing I found is this, note syslog file doesn’t exist

[Wed Feb 12 root@fogclient ~]# cat /var/log/messages | grep -i nvme
Feb 12 10:12:05 fogclient user.warn kernel: ahci 0000:00:17.0: Found 1 remapped NVMe devices.

You’re running the latest stable version: 1.5.7
bzImage Version: 4.19.48
bzImage32 Version: 4.19.48

@george1421 Sorry for taking my time, had to wait for the image to upload

[Wed Feb 12 root@fogclient ~]# uname -a
Linux fogclient.localdomain 4.19.48 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 13:08:14 CDT 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[Wed Feb 12 root@fogclient ~]# lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ec2] (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3e92]
00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Skylake Gaussian Mixture Model [8086:1911]
00:12.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a379] (rev 10)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a36d] (rev 10)
00:14.2 RAM memory [0500]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a36f] (rev 10)
00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a370] (rev 10)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a368] (rev 10)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a360] (rev 10)
00:17.0 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a352] (rev 10)
00:1b.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a32c] (rev f0)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a33e] (rev f0)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a308] (rev 10)
00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a348] (rev 10)
00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a323] (rev 10)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a324] (rev 10)
01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Micron Technology Inc Device [1344:5410] (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 0e)
02:00.1 Serial controller [0700]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:816a] (rev 0e)
02:00.2 Serial controller [0700]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:816b] (rev 0e)
02:00.3 IPMI SMIC interface [0c07]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:816c] (rev 0e)
02:00.4 USB controller [0c03]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:816d] (rev 0e)

Also,

*-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge
             product: Intel Corporation
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1b
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
             version: f0
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:16 memory:8d200000-8d2fffff
           *-storage
                description: Non-Volatile memory controller
                product: Micron Technology Inc
                vendor: Micron Technology Inc
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: 01
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: storage pciexpress msix msi pm nvm_express bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=nvme latency=0
                resources: irq:16 memory:8d200000-8d203fff

1. Switching to legacy doesn’t make a difference

2. I couldn’t see an option specifically for the NVMe but only for SATA, changed it and seems to be a success

Onboard SATA Controller: Enabled
NVMe Port 1: Enabled
Onboard SATA Mode: RST with Optane (other option is AHCI)

Thanks for your help George1421

I just have to work out whether changing the SATA mode will have any problems with my image

Thanks for the debug mode tip, nice to see ssh server is running
Regards,
Pikmin

Hello wonderful people,

I’m unable to create an image due to the hdd not being detected.

lsblk blkid shows no output

The hdd is Micron 2200

From what I’ve read I might have to upgrade to trunk, is there anything else to try beforehand?

Thank you

@astrugatch

It was an upgrade from 16.04, both universe and multiverse are enabled in sources. Good to know
Thanks