I found out what’s causing the problem. The HP BIOS somehow configured the hard disk as a RAID by default. Removing the RAID, and the machine will boot to Windows after iPXE instead of looping.
Thank you for your input.

@Tom-Elliott Sorry, I was busy lately. I have tried to set the EFI BOOT EXIT TYPE to EXIT. Surprisingly, some of the machines work, but some still do not. Those unsuccessful machines will boot to the Startup Menu after the iPXE timeout. Any idea? thank you

@Tom-Elliott If EFI BOOT EXIT TYPE to EXIT is selected, some desktops either go to the BIOS menu or the Boot menu, and keep looping in this manner.
I’m just wondering why some machines have no issue, is there any special setting missed out!

Some of the HP desktops experienced the “Booting from SAN device 0x08 failed” and it will keep looping. The first boot setting is Network Boot.
The problem appeared If I enabled “PXE Menu Hidden”. If the “PXE Menu Hidden” was disabled, the desktop will auto go to Windows after the ipxe boot.
Has anyone had a similar situation as me and what is the solution? Thank you

I’m trying to upgrade my FOG dev-branch version which is not the most current version. Unfortunately, it keeps prompting me that the Auto-merging is failed. I appreciate it if someone could guide me. Thank you

root@fog-master:/home/user# sudo apt-get install git
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
git is already the newest version (1:2.39.5-0+deb12u2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 45 not upgraded.
root@fog-master:/home/user# sudo apt-get install gif
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package gif
root@fog-master:/home/user# sudo apt-get install git
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
git is already the newest version (1:2.39.5-0+deb12u2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 45 not upgraded.
root@fog-master:/home/user# git clone https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject.git /root/fogproject
fatal: destination path ‘/root/fogproject’ already exists and is not an empty directory.
root@fog-master:/home/user# cd /root/fogproject/
root@fog-master:~/fogproject# git checkout dev-branch
Already on ‘dev-branch’
Your branch is ahead of ‘origin/dev-branch’ by 1504 commits.
(use “git push” to publish your local commits)
root@fog-master:~/fogproject# git pull
remote: Enumerating objects: 390, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (111/111), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (20/20), done.
remote: Total 390 (delta 92), reused 91 (delta 91), pack-reused 279 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (390/390), 405.71 KiB | 8.63 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (260/260), completed with 43 local objects.
From https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject
423a55d2e…f79d7d49e dev-branch -> origin/dev-branch
831a95f32…f151e9dbe stable -> origin/stable
4101c44b9…333e0c8b9 working-1.6 -> origin/working-1.6

• [new tag] 1.5.10.1639 -> 1.5.10.1639
• [new tag] 1.5.10.1634 -> 1.5.10.1634
  Auto-merging SECURITY.md
  Auto-merging lib/common/functions.sh
  Auto-merging packages/web/commons/schema.php
  Auto-merging packages/web/lib/client/fogclient.class.php
  Auto-merging packages/web/lib/fog/fogbase.class.php
  Auto-merging packages/web/lib/fog/fogpage.class.php
  Auto-merging packages/web/lib/fog/host.class.php
  Auto-merging packages/web/lib/fog/system.class.php
  CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in packages/web/lib/fog/system.class.php
  Auto-merging packages/web/lib/pages/fogconfigurationpage.class.php
  Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
  root@fog-master:~/fogproject#

@george1421 Thank you for the information. I have managed to migrate/images, /snapin and the database to another new FOG server. Some steps needed to be done such as replacing the original IP with new IP. Because I intended not to use the original IP for the new FOG server as a backup plan. If anythings goes wrong with the new FOG server and I can revert to the original FOG server.

The following is my FOG layout which is Fog master and another storage node running on version 1.5.10.15.
a) Fog Master with storage = 192.168.1.1
b) Fog storage node = 192.168.1.2

I have a physical box came with a 10G network adapter and I want it to replace the Fog master. I want all the settings from the Fog master such as Host (name and mac), Groups, Images, Storage node and etc migrated to the new physical box. I still want to retain the item b (storage node)
I would appreciate someone could guide me how to achieve. Thank you

@Sebastian-Roth Sorry for late reply. I have discovered some of the clients did not run the task that I configured in the Snapins. Therefore, I would like to re-run the task again but couldn’t find an option to achieve the task.

Is it possible to re-run or force to deploy snapins if they have been deployed before?

I have created a new storage node (Node 1) and some machines cannot perform image deployment from this new node. The following are the errors that appeared during the deployment.

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Starting sshd: touch: cannot touch ‘/var/lock/sshd’ : No such file or directory
OK

• Running post init scripts … (after few minutes)

Reason: mount: mounting xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/image failed: Connection timed out.

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It happened only on one of the VLAN and let’s call it VLAN10. It is strange that the VLAN 10 has no problem deploying images from the master node. But another VLAN has no problem deploying images from Node 1.

Which log file that I investigate?
Has anyone encountered such a problem?
Appreciate it if someone could guide me. thank you

How to change the fogreplicator.log time to local time? Currently, it shows the UTC time. Thankyou

fogreplicator.log
[09-18-23 7:17:36 am] | Image Name:
[09-18-23 7:17:36 am] | There are no other members to sync to.
[09-18-23 7:17:36 am] * Not syncing Image between groups
[09-18-23 7:17:36 am] | Image Name: Win10-Tableau
[09-18-23 7:17:36 am] | There are no other members to sync to.
[09-18-23 7:17:36 am] * Attempting to perform Group -> Nodes image replication.
[09-18-23 7:17:36 am] * Not syncing Image between nodes
[09-18-23 7:17:36 am] | Image Name: Win10-Tableau
[09-18-23 7:17:36 am] | There are no other members to sync to.

root@Fog-Master:/opt/fog/log# timedatectl
Local time: Mon 2023-09-18 15:19:28 +08
Universal time: Mon 2023-09-18 07:19:28 UTC
RTC time: Mon 2023-09-18 07:19:28
Time zone: Asia/Singapore (+08, +0800)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: n/a
RTC in local TZ: no
root@Fog-Master:/opt/fog/log#

@george1421 Thank you for the guide link. The FOG is able to mount the external NFS as a storage node. However, there were errors that appeared after the end of the cloning. It doesn’t seem stable to me. Also, understand that the storage node might break if the FOG version is upgraded to the next version.
Therefore, at this moment, I have set up a physical machine instead of a VM to eliminate the issues.

I’m just set up Fog on Debian OS and installed it on the ESXi 7. Due to limited storage space, I would like to add an external NAS (Synology) as a storage node.
Upon PXE boot from the client, the NFS failed to mount and below is the message.
Reason: mount: mounting 172.20.149.70:/volume1/Fog-Master/dev on /images failed: Permission denied.
But I was able to mount it from the Debian which hosts the Fog server. Below is the command.
mount -t nfs 172.20.149.70:/volume1/Fog_Master /mnt (configured Synolog NFS to accept anonymous)
Below is the Fog Storage setting.
IP Address: 172.20.149.70
Image Path: /volume1/fog_Master
Management Username: Synology admin ID
Management Password: Synology admin password

Why is Debian able to mount but Fog can’t?
I appreciate it if someone would advise me on what I miss. Thank you

@astrugatch
Thank you for the url link and the link is a guide of how to add extra storage into VM as a local disk.
But I want is to map and connect direct to NetApp as a additional storage.

I am new for FOG and have just installed FOG 1.5.9 on the VM. I have no problem captured image into local disk. But due to limited local disk space, I configured NetApp storage as a additional storage for FOG server. Unfortunately, the image capturing always failed and the error message was either “no such file and directory” or “Permission denied”. I ever tried mounting the nfs from FOG server. Did I miss something?
I’m grateful if someone could guide me on how to create/add extra storage.