tbh i am running fog on centos 7 so maybe its time to re install the OS to rocky 9.5 or ubuntu 24

what OS do you recommend?

Ok,

I finally figured this out. I know it’s not the best method, but I prefer this than having the wording “plain text” Here’s what I did in case someone needs to do the same.

I read that API tokens do not go well as a securestring. Here are some references:
https://jamesone111.wordpress.com/2020/04/10/transformers-for-powershell-parameters-which-take-secrets/, and https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/issues/25533.

So in order to get past this, I needed to create another variable as show below:

$testapi1 = [pscredential]::new(“token”,$yourtoken)

You’re basically adding the pscredential above like you’re going to setup a username, but you put something like “token” or any wording as a placeholder for the username, then put the token in.

Then after you define the header you do something like this: $testheader.add(fog-user-token’,$testapi1.GetNetworkCredential().password)

Again it’s not the best method, but I also read a way when you do read-host -aseecurestring and save your api there as a variable, you can dispose that variable so it doesn’t stay in memory.

$test.disposeof

If someone has any better ideas, please let me know as I’m always on here learning new things and want to share as well. This basically can be closed out.

any help?

@lucancurtismahoney First let me start with the yada-yada-yada. Imaging over wifi is not supported by the developers of FOG. Imaging over wifi has its use cases but also is not advised because wifi is a shared resource and your entire wifi network will suffer if you try to image over wifi. You would be better served to get a supported (by the manufacturer) usb ethernet adapter and pxe boot over that.

With that said it might be possible to image over wifi if FOS is configured in an (unsupported) way. It will require a custom FOS Linux kernel and some tweaks to the virtual hard drive to add in the needed bits to configure wifi.

Below is a FOG USB debug image that contains a modified bzImage and init.xz files. Use rufus to burn to a 1GB usb drive. The image is less than 500MB so don’t waste a large usb on this boot image.

Understand this boot image WILL NOT WORK out of the box. We will use this for debugging your network adapter. Many network adapters need specific drivers to work with a linux kernel. We will find out what that firmware is with this debug usb.

Use rufus to write the image file to the usb drive. Edit the grub.cfg file with notepad++ (not windows notepad) its located in the /boot/grub directory. At the top set the IP address of your fog server, and half way down the variable add in your wifi ssid and password. Remove the curly braces. Save the config file and then take it to your target computer. USB boot this image file on the target computer. You may see some error messages about networking, but that is expected. After a few screens you need to clear by pressing the enter key you will be dropped to a linux command prompt. See if you can see the wifi adapter with this command ip a s If you see something like wlXXXXX then the driver is loaded and you are done. If you only see the loop back (lo) adapter then continue. Key in the following command it will look through the startup messages for anything that mentions firmware. grep -i -e firmw /var/log/messages My bet is there will be a message from the intel wireless (iwlwifixxxxx) saying that it needs a specific firmware to load. Take a clear snapshot of the name of the firmware name with a mobile phone and post it here. I will patch the kernel with the required firmware and upload it with additional instructions.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1psCrPVzBTvlakLkCMvhdoScAEZp1CKE6/view?usp=drive_link

your right they do support PXE boot i found the option right at the bottom in the bios you can choose between PXE HTTP and iSCSI
i didn’t do enough scrolling down last time i looked.

@MichaelPower said in FOG & iPXE Anywhere - issues from boot menu:

Just wondering if a working bzImage I can use that boots under Secure Boot?

The issue is exactly that. bzImage is not signed so the uefi firmware will not boot it. That is the root of the issue. You could self sign ipxe and bzImage but then you will need to update the certificates in each computer to include your self signed certificate. Its possible but it is quite a bit of work to get it all setup.

@adam1972 FYI, there are no pending tasks… I just tried creatinga snapin bash that uninstalls the client, to see if it would stop repeatedly rebooting… It just sits there. The log has a “a power operation is pending, aborting module”… I can’t find anything that’s is pending… especially after rebooting several times lol

@ReinierG said in W10 Error when capturing image (ACPI Bios Error):

Hey,

I’m trying to capture an image on a Surface Go 2. The process starts off well, but when it reaches 6.79%, the speed drops significantly, and I encounter the following error message:

ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\Tz.TZ00], ZE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/psargs-332) ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PC10.LPCB.ECO._Q14 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20230628/psargs-529)

What can I try to fix this issue? The machine hasn’t been sysprepped, but I also haven’t fully installed the OS yet, so that shouldn’t be necessary. The current installation is at the keyboard/language selection screen. Also stopping and resending the task did not fix this issue.

Thanks in advance!

I tried capturing the image on an HP ProBook G7, and it worked fine. Online, I found some information suggesting that this error might be related to a firmware issue. Could that be the case?

@ReinierG said in Boot Menu: rEFInd Initializes Too Quickly:

@Tom-Elliott said in Boot Menu: rEFInd Initializes Too Quickly:

Pxe Menu Timeout

Hey @Tom-Elliott ,

No, the issue is not that we don’t see a menu. When we start netboot and the main FOG menu opens (where we can deploy an image and access other options), it automatically exits after 3-5 seconds and proceeds to rEFInd, which is not correct.

I allready see the setting, can i just set the timeout as high as i want without issue’s?

@marcolefo not yet, i was running 1.5 on centos 7 and now re installed fog 1.5 on alma 9.5, i will let you know if i get the same issue on new OS

Edit: So, the target PC was not identical after all. It had an optical drive as well. Don’t know why that would change anything. From dracut emergency shell I found that the driver for the SAS controller card (aacraid) was not loaded for some reason. Works fine on other target PCs without the optical drive…

@infotech_22 Generally speaking, if you do setupcomplete.com, you should completely disable the FOGService as re-enable it as the final step of the setupcomplete.com script.

The reason:

FOGService will attempt to start up and perform its actions alongside anything else that’s occurring. Generally, when the system is setup and running just fine, things are okay because there’s no interactions, but when you pair it with the OOBE configuration stuff, where it could be changing ini’s and Registry thigns, then the FOG Client is saying “Hey restart to change the name and join the domain” or “Hey restart because I completed installing this Snapin” or whatever else may be going on, it can leave your machine in an unknown and cause issues.

This isn’t something we’re able to fix in a codified manner unfortunately and we have given instructions many times to allow FOG Client while in OOBE state.

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOG_Client#:~:text=If you plan to use,the image deployment is complete.

I don’t know if this is in the more modern Documentation, but it is in the original documentation as well.