Jefferson Regional Medical Center
Pine Bluff, Ar
1,500+ systems
2 1/2 years

@Sebastian-Roth

Sebasitan, you did it! Thanks x20. Bookmarked for future reference.

Jefferson Regional Medical Center
Pine Bluff, Ar
1,500+ systems
2 1/2 years

@Jaymes-Driver

Late response, I know, but you’re right. I think the Ubuntu updated itself and reverted a change I had made with the link below. I had to go back in and blank out the SQL password again:

Is this Ubuntu 16.04? See here: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ubuntu_16.04#MySQL_password_behavior

Nevermind, I fixed it.

Server

• FOG Version: 13
• OS: Ubuntu 16.04

Client

• Service Version:
• OS:

Description

Updated to the trunk version of Fog a year ago or so (SVN Revision 5948) and all has been well but this morning a co-worker noticed an update message when he accessed the Fog web gui but was unsure about it and closed out the message box. Now, we are getting the below message:

Database Schema Installer / Updater
Your database connection appears to be invalid. FOG is unable to communicate with the database. There are many reasons why this could be the case. Please check your credentials in /var/www/fog/lib/fog/config.class.php. Also confirm that the database is indeed running. If credentials are correct, and the Database service is running, check to ensure your filesystem has enough space.

Any ideas?

The database password hasn’t changed. I restarted the MYSQL database. Drive space is fine.

Some clients get stuck at the below during PXE boot since I got the new Fog server up. I know its version 1.3.0 but I don’t have the rest at the moment since I’m not on-site:

iPXE
Received DHCP answer on interface net0
Please enter tftp server: _

Any idea why some would prompt for the server?

@george1421 said in Chainloading Failed - Fog Menu - Boot HD:

OK we need a bit more info, and a possible recommendation that you update to the 1.3.0 RC series before we do too much debugging.

What is version 13, is that fog 1.3.0 (something)? Since the svn versions became disconnected from the git version I can’t tell if that is current or not.

More to the point of your question, is this a uefi or bios (legacy) based target computer? Also please include the mfg and model number of the target computer.

My mistake, it is 1.3.0 RC and the host is a Dell 790 BIOS based.

@Wayne-Workman

Look at you. I did not noticed those two options in the host menu but I did change them in the iPXE menu hoping that would do something. The host is booting pass the Fog menu now, thanks.

Stay tuned for further posts…

Running Version 13
SVN Revision: 5948

When the Fog menu comes up and it auto selects “boot to disk” it fails with chainloading failed.

Any idea why this is happening? I can F12 and manually boot to the HD, bypassing PXE altogether and it works but via the Fog menu it fails.

Does Fog install the Fog client onto clients after they are imaged? We had an older Fog server that after we imaged computers the fog client was automatically included but I did not set that server up, whereas, I did set up a new Fog server and the Fog client is not installed after a PC is imaged.

@Wayne-Workman

Yulp. That was it. Re-ran the install and it updated the IP address.

Thanks for the help!