@alperi The bit if detail you are missing is what the kernel parameters were that was sent to the fog client. From what you posted it appears that the FOG server has all of the bits in the right spots.

In the kernel parameters that are passed to bzImage during boot up it lists where the FOS engine can find the deployment server. I would verify the IP addresses are correct. If everything appears correct with the parameters, we can debug this a bit more by debug deploy and then manually interact with the fos engine from the target PC’s console.

Was not sure which ubuntu version of these (20.04, 22.04, or 24.04) was used as the basis for the FOG release v1.5.10.1734.

Thanks, @FOGBreaker101, for the version you are using.

Some software doesn’t use the latest released version of the OS distro, but often one major version back.

@Tom-Elliott Alrighty. So my FOG server at another location is acting up in the same fashion with the failure to check in.

Before we used it I updated to 1.60-beta.2265 to hopefully negate it but I did not drop the fog table from mysql before doing so.

Are there any logs you want me to pull?

Hello,

It’s working again.
I have update to the last version (1.6.0-beta.2273) but I’m not sure it’s fixed with this.
I have also clean DB using this : https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshoot_MySQL#Database_Maintenance_Commands

Thank you.

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.