Hi there,

For my non-profit I have set-up a fog server and it works great except for a couple of things.

Whenever I set a custom background for the pxe menu, the colors revert back to black/red and no image. (See picture).
When I use the settings -> ipxe menu settings -> name of file.png it displays the red/black screen. But bg.png works.

I’ve copied the image to the same folder as the bg.png (/downloads/fogproject-1.5.5/packages/web/service/ipxe)

Also, sometimes when I image a image with our general win 10 uefi image, it does not apply the windows boot manager. If you add it manually in the bios, then it loads fine. This is not on all systems, but mostly dell ones.

Thanks!

@Sebastian-Roth Thanks again, that fixed it

Hi all,

As some of you know, I installed a fog server with all your help here. Thanks again. However, when I restart my server, mysql is not running. I have to use systemctl restart mysql to enable it again. This is a bit annoying as you can imagine.

I have tried to run chkconfig --level 345 mysqld on but I get the following:

[root@localhost fogserver]# chkconfig --level 345 mysqld on
Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl enable mysqld.service'.
Failed to execute operation: Invalid argument

Also, should I run sudo mysql_secure_installation? Or will this cause issues with fog?

I am running fog server 1.5.5 on centos os 7.

Thanks!

@Sebastian-Roth Alright, i’ll test the ftp server. So best not to mess with any of the passwords, just leave everything at default., don’t want to break it :).

Digged around to find a logfile so I could see what was causing the issue, just have not found it yet. Is that in a config file? Found the imaging log, but that just says the duration and the image used.

Btw, I also figured out what was causing the no boot device errors. The image does not link the new install with the efi.boot file. When I linked it in the bios, it all works. Should I update the host bios exit type and host efi exit type and then make a new image?

@Sebastian-Roth Ok, so I can just change the password from the terminal and then enter that password everywhere in the ftp settings?

Strange that this is not displayed in the installer or you can choose it somehow.

@Sebastian-Roth Now that you mention it, there is another user on my fog server, named fog. I’ve never set-up a password for that account though? Where can I find/change it?

@Sebastian-Roth I see the password I made at the installation, never changed a thing from the default. I see my password in those two files, they are the same, or do you mean the mysql password? I left that blank, easier for me.

Did some further digging:

1: ftp password is set in the tftp settings and my storage settings
2: ftp path is set to /images
3: everything is owned by the fog server
4: the firewall is allowing all traffic
5: the ftp service is running

Only thing I have not tested it a test file to send to the ftp server. The one thing I did notice though is that when the image capture is done, it can’t update the database because the utc time is not set (or something like that) could that be it?

@Sebastian-Roth Yes, on the same machine. Also, was using a different pc (Dell optiplex 990) and even when deleting all the data, it fails with a non boot device found error. But it does copy everything to disk.

This is a uefi system using a uefi image.

Also, when I make a new image, the folder is not created under /images, it does save it somewhere, no idea where.

@Sebastian-Roth Here is what I do.

1: start fog pxe menu
2: deploy image
3: fog starts image process and completes
4: when the pc reboots, it displays a message with no bootable devices found.

This happens if there was another windows install on the disk. Even though it is deleting the tables when imaging.

When i delete everything from the disk, it works, and starts windows.

@Sebastian-Roth thanks, got it fixed by renaming the folder. I tried to image it and that worked, but it only boots on drives without data on it.

If data is on the drive, it returns a error with non bootable media found.