@Sebastian-Roth
While snp.efi does let us boot and image the machine, it is far from perfect. As I stated below, none of the other utilities in the boot menu work. While the ability to register the host, run memtest, ect aren’t critical, it’s not what I would say ‘Ideal’ functionality is.
Also please don’t take that as a Dig at FOG, you, or the support that you’ve provided me, which I very much appreciate. The fact that I can image these at all is going to be a huge time saver.
@george1421
Sorry for the delay. Had some other non imaging related things to take care of the past few days.
Unfortunately the UUID is completely different for each of the three machines that I tested.
It is alright though as setting everything to boot using snp.efi for now is fine. We are just looking for a solution to image this specific model of machines right now and it is unlikely that we will move all of our machines over to using fog for imaging as it would mean throwing out many hours of work and customization put into our existing system.
In the future hopefully either fog or our existing imaging solution will have better support for these new model HP’s.
I was able to boot and image using snp.efi. Using ipxe.efi everything in the menu throws errors, including image deployment.
Here are the pictures of the two commands that you asked me to run
ifstat:
imgstat:
@Sebastian-Roth We are using the USB-C to RJ45 Adapters that came with the devices (HP Model# RTL8153-03). I do have some usb to rj45 adapters from other companies that I could try out as well if it will make any difference although they don’t always play nice with pxe booting.
The hardware ID for the adapter is:
USB\VID_0BDA&PID_8153&REV_3000
The text output from the URL with one of the x360 mac addresses is:
#!ipxe
set fog-ip 172.20.0.136
set fog-webroot fog
set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}
cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386
goto get_console
:console_set
colour --rgb 0x00567a 1 ||
colour --rgb 0x00567a 2 ||
colour --rgb 0x00567a 4 ||
cpair --foreground 7 --background 2 2 ||
goto MENU
:alt_console
cpair --background 0 1 ||
cpair --background 1 2 ||
goto MENU
:get_console
console --picture http://172.20.0.136/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80 && goto console_set || goto alt_console
:MENU
menu
colour --rgb 0x00567a 0 ||
cpair --foreground 1 1 ||
cpair --foreground 0 3 ||
cpair --foreground 4 4 ||
item --gap Host is registered as testx360system!
item --gap -- -------------------------------------
item fog.local Boot from hard disk
item fog.memtest Run Memtest86+
item fog.keyreg Update Product Key
item fog.deployimage Deploy Image
item fog.multijoin Join Multicast Session
item fog.quickdel Quick Host Deletion
item fog.sysinfo Client System Information (Compatibility)
choose --default fog.local --timeout 3000 target && goto ${target}
:fog.local
sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80 || goto MENU
:fog.memtest
kernel memdisk initrd=memtest.bin iso raw
initrd memtest.bin
boot || goto MENU
:fog.keyreg
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param keyreg 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.deployimage
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param qihost 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.multijoin
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param sessionJoin 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.quickdel
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param delhost 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.sysinfo
kernel bzImage32 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 web=172.20.0.136/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 storage=172.20.0.136:/images/ storageip=172.20.0.136 loglevel=4 mode=sysinfo
imgfetch init_32.xz
boot || goto MENU
:bootme
chain -ar http://172.20.0.136/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php##params ||
goto MENU
autoboot
Thanks for all your help with this!
snp.efi boots and lets us image with EFI. I’ve just successfully deployed an EFI win10 image using snp.efi. Nothing in else in the fog menu works however.
I’ve tried the debug efi binary you provided and this is the result when I attempt to do anything from the fog menu
I’ve tried both of the following BIOS versions and have the same error:
P80 Ver. 01.06 (3/29/2017)
P80 Ver 01.08 (6/09/2017)
It does boot and function (mostly) as expected in Legacy mode but for obvious reasons that’s not preferable.
Also in case it matters secure boot was off for all tests.
@george1421 I installed the latest firmware as of a few weeks ago when we received them. I can check to see if there is a newer one posted to HP’s site. I can also try one of the ones we haven’t un-boxed and updated yet just to see if it makes any difference. I will post in a bit with the results and Bios version numbers.
@george1421 I’m (re)using the config file from the original post so the X360 should be getting ipxe.efi
@Sebastian-Roth and @george1421 Thanks for the prompt replies with assistance! I’ve actually managed to solve the original problem in my post by re-deploying fog in a new VM from scratch. The Hp Elitebook x360 G2 now does boot to the Fog menu but that is where I’ve run into a second, very similar problem that I haven’t been able to solve.
Doing anything in the menu, or attempting to deploy an image results in this error:
Could not boot: No such device (http://ipxe.org/2c048087)
I couldn’t find a whole lot of posts with this error in them other than one which didn’t contain anything that seemed like it would help out in this particular situation.
Thanks for any help with this new error!
I’m giving FOG a try because our current imaging solution is unable to boot on our new Elitebook x360s but I’m having roughly the same issues with FOG.
I have FOG setup using DNSMASQ 2.76 and have finally gotten UEFI devices network booting to the server.
When the x360 attempts to boot I get the following…
Could not select: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008081)
Could not boot: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008081)
I’ve searched around and tried a few different things to get this to work to no avail.
This is my current ltsp.conf:
port=0
log-dhcp
tftp-root=/tftpboot
dhcp-vendorclass=BIOS,PXEClient:Arch:00000
dhcp-vendorclass=UEFI32,PXEClient:Arch:00006
dhcp-vendorclass=UEFI,PXEClient:Arch:00007
dhcp-vendorclass=UEFI64,PXEClient:Arch:00009
dhcp-boot=net:UEFI32,i386-efi/ipxe.efi,,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
dhcp-boot=net:UEFI,ipxe.efi,,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
dhcp-boot=net:UEFI64,ipxe.efi,,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
dhcp-boot=net:BIOS,undionly.kpxe,,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
# PXE menu. The first part is the text displayed to the user. The second is the timeout, in seconds.
pxe-prompt="Press F8 for boot menu", 10
# The known types are x86PC, PC98, IA64_EFI, Alpha, Arc_x86,
# Intel_Lean_Client, IA32_EFI, BC_EFI, Xscale_EFI and X86-64_EFI
# This option is first and will be the default if there is no input from the user.
# PXEClient:Arch:00000
pxe-service=X86PC, "Boot BIOS PXE", undionly
# PXEClient:Arch:00007
pxe-service=BC_EFI, "Boot UEFI PXE-BC", ipxe.efi
# PXEClient:Arch:00009
pxe-service=X86-64_EFI, "Boot UEFI PXE-64", ipxe.efi
dhcp-range=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,proxy,255.240.0.0
I’m hoping someone on here could point me in the right direction on how to get this working as we are dreading setting up 80+ of these without a networked imaging solution. Any help is greatly appreciated!