@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.

are they all in a clean shutdown state before starting?
do they already have an OS?

Not sure why I did not just start with trying a pre 6.xx.xx kernel…

Downloaded the the last 5.15.xx Linux kernel slapped it in /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/bzimage-5.15.98 updated the host kernel to bzimage-5.15.98 and BOOM 20GB/min.

Still willing to do some testing if there is anything you need from me to see if this can be fixed in 6.xx.xx.

@Mr_____T Well, I have discovered a work around. According to our consultant, the legacy wrapper message in the 1st or 2nd image was kinda the key. the X360 has no wired nic port and the usb nic adabter is recognized as a legacy booting device. But the unit only boots efi. I followed this link for starters:

Kernel runtime parameter:

Next I added the MAC addresses from each usb dongle I have available. Then, from the fog web interface:

list all hosts
Select the host
Basic Tasks tab
Deploy tab
Task (I first checked debug and followed the bread crumbs no issues)
Imaging commenced.

This is quite a bit more work than I was hoping to do just to image one machine. I was hoping someone out there could come out of the fog (pun intended) and provide some feedback.

So this is not solved. But a work around that does. If you got this far Tx

fixed it by installing gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu on ubuntu and running the script again. compilation errors are not logged to the script shown on screen, but to the bin/error_logs/ directory in the extracted archive.
Update now ran without issues.

@argylega have you restarted the Mariadb and apache services, or the whole server?
I also assume you mean you can’t login to the website. Is there anything in the apache error log?