Hey all, apologies if this topic has been covered somewhere. I swear I have been searching for a good hour now, but found nothing!

Setting up my golden image using a Proxmox VM of Windows 11. The typical device I need to image are new Dell Optiplex’, however they come with their ‘RAID’ setting turned on in the BIOS by default.

After deploying my image (post sysprep yada yada), I get a BSOD with error ‘INACCESSABLE BOOT DEVICE’. Turning the BIOS setting to AHCI lets it boot as expected.

Just wondering whether there is a way to allow these devices to correctly boot without having to change the storage option. I’ve tried applying a IRST driver to the driver store before generalizing, to no avail. Whether I’m just going about this in the wrong manner.

Thanks in advance!

@george1421

I’ve reinstalled FOG, using the in-built DHCP server instead of the router.
Worked perfectly first time, after setting the router as a relay instead.

Thank you very much for all your help!

@george1421

We currently aren’t getting an offer packet at all! I’ve triple checked the router settings and can confirm they’re correctly set for 66 and 67.

The only viewable packets are DHCP discover.

@george1421 Scratch that last bit!

Did a release / renew on the windows machine. Captured the bootp packets via wireshark.
Confirmed that both the tftp server option is set to 192.168.19.22, as well as the boot file as ipxe.efi.

Thoughts?

@george1421 Thanks for the assistance! Greatly appreciated

Ran your tcpdump command to output the pcap file. Checked out in wireshark to read it - as suggested. As far as i’m aware, the DHCP server isn’t providing the options 66 and 67 for some reason - they’re just empty.

Confirmed both in the GUI and via Telnet that the options are set in the router, so not sure why they’re not being provided.

Furthermore, turned off windows firewall as suggested. tftp works perfectly fine then!

Hi all, FOG noob here - please excuse if this overlaps with any existing conversations.

Set up a FOG server (without DHCP) on an Ubuntu server virtual machine - through Hyper-V. Virtual switch set up as external and confirmed the web portal is accessible via my own PC.

I have a DrayTek Vigor 2927 working as my DHCP server, and have added the following options;

• option 66: ASCII: 192.168.19.26 (FOG Server)
• option 67: ASCII: ipxe.efi

From this point I’ve been trying to test the PXE boot functionality from a variety of PCs, some physical, others virtual (with the same virtual switch) to no avail. Client computers will only ever be UEFI based.

Running tcpdump on Ubuntu, I can see that the server is receiving requests from the client machine - but I suppose nothing is being sent back?

Additionally, i’ve used TFTP on a windows 11 vm to attempt to get the ipxe.efi file - which times out. Wireshark showed that it was receiving data packets back from the server, but would eventually time out after 8 or so attempts.

I can get some screenshots come monday, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. If some more details are needed, please do let me know.

Thanks in advnace!