@Priyankha We need a lot more details.

FOG Version

What bootfile is your boot server trying to send?

Is you server sending the right FOG server for option 66/67?

What OS are you trying to capture?

What does the error show or maybe a screen shot? (UEFI Boot looks different from Legacy boot from Mac from arm, etc…)

What type of machine are you trying to image?

What have you tried?

@JJ-Fullmer @edvandro This should be fixed in dev-branch as well, but I agree with JJ here, please upgrade to working-1.6.

@astrugatch Okay thanks and sorry there was that issue.

Can you pull and try installing again?

Thank you!

@Jeremy Good — that rules out the firewall/permissions angle cleanly, thanks for actually checking rather than taking my word for it.

The new symptom is a different failure than before, and it’s outside anything FOG serves: looping on BOOTP with no attempt at Retrieving file... means it’s failing at DHCP/BOOTP negotiation, a step before pxe get would ever run. FOG can’t see that far back — the board never gets far enough to ask FOG anything.

You’ve also moved to a materially different boot path than what we’d been testing: cardless, via the Pi’s own network-boot EEPROM, rather than typing commands by hand at the U-Boot prompt. That matters here, because the EEPROM’s automatic network-boot flow runs its own boot sequence, built into that U-Boot, not necessarily the dhcp / pxe get / pxe boot lines from earlier in this thread — those were for a manually-typed bootcmd. If the EEPROM path uses bootp instead of dhcp, or expects OPNsense to hand it specific DHCP options, that’s a different thing to get right than what we tested manually.

Two things I’d need to actually say anything useful here, since I can’t see either from where I’m sitting:

What’s the board actually running right now — did the nano edit touch a persisted bootcmd (printenv bootcmd), or is this the EEPROM’s own default network-boot sequence with nothing custom in the loop at all? In OPNsense’s DHCP config for that subnet, what are options 66 (next-server) and 67 (filename / bootfile-name) set to? The EEPROM’s PXE client needs those to know where to send its own request in the first place — if they’re pointing at the wrong place, or missing, U-Boot never gets the chance to see FOG at all, and that would produce exactly a BOOTP loop with nothing after it.

That’ll tell us whether this is a boot-script problem (fixable on your end) or a DHCP-options problem (fixable in OPNsense) — right now I genuinely can’t tell which from here.

@maxcarpone I would ask you, if you’re daring/willing (it’s considered beta but uses the same pipeline with a lot more modern ui, I need people testing, and Fog_newb can likely attest the new ui look and feel though I think they ran into an issue and needed to get functional right away so the snapshotted back)

Upgrade to working-1.6.

I have a goal (along with @JJ-Fullmer ) to try to get working-1.6 to be master/stable branch by October.

1.6 has been “stagnant” since around 2017 and was in relatively stable grounds back then even.

With AI (as you undoubtly can see I’m using to help drive some things) it’s allowed us to get a lot more coding/refactoring and will hopefully present a much better experience of things on the UI side. Without testing I cannot fix UI bugs though.

AI can do some cool things, but it doesn’t know what “wrong/right” looks like, and JJ and I are only 2 people.

There are others on working-1.6 but more feedback is always good.

Thank you Tom, I got updated to Working-1.6beta.4105 and that issue is fixed. Not sure if it is just this particular install or not.

Some Issues I am noticing is Host registration is not showing up whether from the fog menu or the client. I can see it is trying but does not appear to be writing to sql.

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Deployment: Getting invalid mac errors it seems on all devices. The task seems to be populating alright.

No viable macs to use

And I can’t add any hosts—whether via the web interface or by booting over the network—; ultimately, the new host doesn’t appear in the database…

Failed to query: Error: SQLSTATE[22007]: Invalid datetime format: 1366 Incorrect integer value: '' for column `fog`.`moduleStatusByHost`.`msHostID` at row 1 Error Message: Error Code: "22007", Error Message: ["22007",1366,"Incorrect integer value: '' for column `fog`.`moduleStatusByHost`.`msHostID` at row 1"], Debug: SQL: [629] INSERT INTO `moduleStatusByHost` (`msHostID`,`msModuleID`,`msState`) VALUES (:hostID_0,:moduleID_0,:state_0),(:hostID_1,:moduleID_1,:state_1),(:hostID_2,:moduleID_2,:state_2),(:hostID_3,:moduleID_3,:state_3),(:hostID_4,:moduleID_4,:state_4),(:hostID_5,:moduleID_5,:state_5),(:hostID_6,:moduleID_6,:state_6),(:hostID_7,:moduleID_7,:state_7),(:hostID_8,:moduleID_8,:state_8),(:hostID_9,:moduleID_9,:state_9),(:hostID_10,:moduleID_10,:state_10),(:hostID_11,:moduleID_11,:state_11),(:hostID_12,:moduleID_12,:state_12) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE `msHostID`=VALUES(`msHostID`),`msModuleID`=VALUES(`msModuleID`),`msState`=VALUES(`msState`)

@Tom-Elliott thanks Tom - using the excellent fog-docker from 88fingerslukee - so will wait to hear his response

@Tom-Elliott I did update to version 1.6.2254 and the first multicast that worked was the first one I tried after the upgrade. This second one is now hanging like the one that prompted this thread.

Where in the logs can I find any clues?

What version of FOG are you running?

@rpycroft Please attempt to update to 2231.

@toschulz So I suspect the problem is due to a divergence of db schema between dev-branch/stable + working-1.6

If you can update yoru Mysql directly:

sudo mariadb -u root fog (if no root password of course - if you have a root password add -p

UPDATE schemaVersion SET vVersion=0;

Then refresh your screen, click the install/update, and hopefully the error will go away.

The way the schema is configured is it will attempt (idempotently) to rerun every single SQL query in the schema chain.

This should fix the problem you’re seeing.

I believe there’s a column on the login history piece being requested that may just simply be missing which would cause the issue with datatables.

I have figured out the issue. I was looking in the wrong place in BIOS for the secure boot setting which was on. Turning off secure boot fixed the process which runs perfectly now.

@Tom-Elliott Hello Tom yes I have installed the compatible Fog client from the Fog server on the reference machine, sys prepped and captured the image and now I am deploying.

@Strahd Have you been able to make progress?

@DiegoP I believe mdadm will still be allowed to work, but I think you’re supossed to use “mdraid=true” for a kernel argument. If this is not set, FOG won’t know to build the array. This would help explain why the disk couldn’t find a partition layout as well since it’s expecting to be part of an array (which then looks/acts as the disk you’re truly working with.

As for “partclone to partimage” I’m not sure I understand.

Fog moved FROM partimage -> partclone way back in the 1.0.0 days as partimage has been obsolete for quite some time now.

Encountered the same issue, version: 1.5.10

I can successfully capture the image and then see the size of it in the web panel but then it’s not being moved to /images/ by fog. Requiring me to move them manually which works but I’m kinda concerned.

FTP works fine even though I am afraid I don’t understand why I need FTP to move some files inside a directory on a singular server.