Hello,

I noticed that efibootmgr is not usable with standard fog kernel (EFI variables are not supported on this system).

I used the documentation https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Build_TomElliott_Kernel#Build_TomElliott_Kernel_for_FOG_0.33b_and_newer to compile the kernel and changed only this option:

    EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) Support
    <*> EFI Variable Support via sysfs

and now efibootmgr is working. Can you activate this option by default in the fog kernel ?

Hello @Tom-Elliott when we deploy new computers we want to configure EFI boot order via postdownloadscripts to modify default entries.

Usually if we just deploy image to the disk (including the EFI partition) it will not boot as-is. We have go to bios and add a new entry (this is for Dell desktop computers and Xubuntu images). If we can use efibootmgr from postdownloadscripts we will script this to avoid manual configuration after first imaging.

Server

• FOG Version: 1.4.4
• OS: Debian 9

Description

After installing fog with –force-https switch ipxe.efi cannot download files via http or https from fog server.

After searching on ipxe side I suspected a certificate validation problem and I managed to get ipxe download via https on the fog web server after compiling it with the web server certificate embedded:

make bin-x86_64-efi/ipxe.efi EMBED=ipxescript TRUST=/var/www/fog//management/other/ssl/srvpublic.crt

I had also to modify the /tftpboot/default.ipxe file by replacing http by https in it because it seems that ipxe does not follow the redirection from http to https…

Is is normal or did i miss something to avoid recompiling ?

Server

• FOG Version: 1.4.4
• OS: Debian 9

Description

After installing fog with –force-https switch ipxe.efi cannot download files via http or https from fog server.

After searching on ipxe side I suspected a certificate validation problem and I managed to get ipxe download via https on the fog web server after compiling it with the web server certificate embedded:

make bin-x86_64-efi/ipxe.efi EMBED=ipxescript TRUST=/var/www/fog//management/other/ssl/srvpublic.crt

I had also to modify the /tftpboot/default.ipxe file by replacing http by https in it because it seems that ipxe does not follow the redirection from http to https…

Is is normal or did i miss something to avoid recompiling ?

Hello @Tom-Elliott when we deploy new computers we want to configure EFI boot order via postdownloadscripts to modify default entries.

Usually if we just deploy image to the disk (including the EFI partition) it will not boot as-is. We have go to bios and add a new entry (this is for Dell desktop computers and Xubuntu images). If we can use efibootmgr from postdownloadscripts we will script this to avoid manual configuration after first imaging.

Hello,

I noticed that efibootmgr is not usable with standard fog kernel (EFI variables are not supported on this system).

I used the documentation https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Build_TomElliott_Kernel#Build_TomElliott_Kernel_for_FOG_0.33b_and_newer to compile the kernel and changed only this option:

    EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) Support
    <*> EFI Variable Support via sysfs

and now efibootmgr is working. Can you activate this option by default in the fog kernel ?