Also occurring on Dell Latitude 5450 laptops.

@Tom-Elliott Thank you, Tom. The init version is now 2025xxx. I’ll test soon to confirm the SSD info is showing in logs.

@brent could you specify exactly at which point of the installation you see this error? If you notice the installer hangs or fails specifically during the “pinning” stage, it is likely a name resolution issue.

I’ve found a solution for this: you need to manually edit the Windows hosts file at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and add an entry with your FOG server’s IP address followed by the name “fogserver”. This ensures the SmartInstaller.exe recognizes the server and can download the certificate properly.

@CanadienITGuy Just for your and anyone’s fyi the autoexec.ipxe... Not Found is not an error. It’s more of an info message than a warning or error.
I actually have tested adding an autoexec.ipxe, even just an empty file to remove that message but even an empty file or a file that is even just a symlink or copy/paste of our normal ipxe/boot menu files causes things to break in the process.
The autoexec.ipxe is meant for adding customization to the ipxe process without needing to re-build the ipxe binary. But my testing with it within the fog workflow was that it’s best to just let that message exist and to see it as it being not found means the process will not be altered from your expected Fog ipxe workflow

@Kureebow I’ve had this happen to me before. These are the two cases that I’ve seen:

1 - I captured an image in UEFI and the computer that I was deploying it to was in Legacy mode. I also had the inverse of this, where I captured in Legacy and was trying to deploy to UEFI.
2 (the most common for me) - Some sort of RAID or volume management device is enabled in the UEFI. I only use HP so I don’t know what it would be called on Dell, but on HP there is an option that I have to disable “Configure Storage Controller for VMD”.

@bond007fink A new version of ntfs-3g, which is the parent package for ntfsresize, has finally been released last week. That’s after 4 years of no updates. If all goes well, I will be doing an experimental release this weekend with the newer package.

As @Tom-Elliott stated, this is not an issue with FOG itself, instead FOG relies on tools like ntfs-3g and partclone to handle all the NTFS filesystem changes. Hopefully this updated version fixes your issue.
I will update the thread once the experimental release is available.

@romprager The simple answer is depends on the iso image and what OS will boot from the ISO image.

I do have several how tos in the forum that shows how to net boot several different installers.

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10944/using-fog-to-pxe-boot-into-your-favorite-installer-images

Hi Again guys

I have some news about this problem.
I found a work around.

I change the file d1.fixed_size_partitions deleting the recovery Windows partition. This change generated and error when I made the deploy image in Client PC.
But if I cancel the job in the CLI fog server and reset the client machine after fog show the error
It boot ok.

I’ll continue reading …
Thanks

@Tom-Elliott Yep, I caught that workaround in the earlier post. I moved the image folder from /images/dev to /images, but still resulted in the same error.

One thing I noticed this morning, is that the image capture process is hanging at 99% on the task page, as in for at least 45 minutes. Not sure if that is a symptom or the cause.

The previous post was suspect of a very recent init version – but i’m on the most recent dev-branch.

Thank you!

I am confident I have ruled out NFS. I can now connect to the NFS from localhost and Ubuntu to /images & /images/dev without issue and all the permissions that come with it. The only thing failing now is FOG, any guidance would be great!

@Tom-Elliott Thank you so much Tom, as always I appreciate your support and guidance.

@chevengur there is not enough information to help you in that picture. If we could see more of the error message that partclone threw (i.e. just above the top of your picture) we would know what happened. At the point in the script all we know is that partclone wasn’t happy.

Ok so I now have a second system with the EXACT same issue. I purchased a Dell Precision 7875 which has 2 on-board nics. I updated our dhcp server to issue an IP address for one of the two NICs. With the system connected to that interface I PXE booted the system. The first stage of the fog shows as it notices the system is not registered and asking whether I would like to register the system. Yet once I say do full registration that’s it it will not proceed further.

So similar to the issue that I’ve raised prior with multiple NICs and @george1421 suggested I PXE booted the system again but went into DEBUG mode. Well as it appears the unused MAC address is now showing up on the interface that I had configured to connect to the network. Seeing that I did not assign an IP address to the second mac address the system would not proceed any further. The odd thing is that BOTH interfaces show up having the same mac address. It seems that there’s an issue with the FOS with newer Dell systems with multiple NICs.

If I disable one of the two NICs in the BIOS, and do the re-imaging process everything works fine…

Really looking for a fix for this…

Cheers

Jason Naughton