@Tom-Elliott @george1421 's black magic USB boot image, which he thinks you are correct about “ipxe kernel doing something bad to the init.xz before starting fos.”

@george1421 Thank you, thank you, thank you! and @Tom-Elliott thank you too!!

@george1421 So the force 32bit approach isn’t working, both the xz and uncompressed attempts end with the same error we started with. Any other suggestions?

@george1421 Like this?

Host Kernel: /tftpboot/i386-efi/ipxe.efi or /tftpboot/ipxe7156.efi
Host Init: /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/init_32

@Tom-Elliott You Sir are correct, 100% no help.

@george1421 100% in BIOS mode, secure boot off and in fact when I attempted in UEFI mode it doesn’t even get an IP.

I’m going to attempt the instructions here https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/BIOS_and_UEFI_Co-Existence and report back, thankfully it does appear to be isolated to a specific set of hardware and quite frankly using UEFI mode might make all difference anyways. Thanks again for your help, I’ve monopolized enough of your time and @Tom-Elliott 's for one day.

@Tom-Elliott I appreciate all the help and I’m willing to try just about anything you suggest. I apologize for the confusion of that other thread it was just that person seemed to have a eureka moment by having his inits uncompressed…

@george1421 so I think between @Tom-Elliott and I something got lost in translation. To be clear I’ve ONLY used the undionly.kpxe never *.efi

@george1421 No worries, I can’t imagine keeping all the threads separate…

Yes, I’m booting from a dock. Yes, the firmware has been updated. Yes, other hardware HP or otherwise works without issue.

I’m not very savvy so how does one force the use of the 32bit kernel and inits? I guess this also goes to @Tom-Elliott 's point of trying ipxe7156.efi instead of ipxe.efi again please forgive me but I thought I was using undionly.kpxe as set in dhcp, am I confusing things?

Hi All,

The other forum that I was refferring to that offered the suggestion to use an uncompressed version of inits is here: http://forums346.rssing.com/browser.php?indx=7254081&item=835 the first post by zix.

Please forgive my ignorance but this is roughly the same issue/file(s) in question correct? Is there an easy way for a novice like myself to try this with FOG?