I am trying to help upgrade a fog installation to 1.5.10 to be honest I am not sure what the old version was. The installed gets to the point where it asks to login into the mysql database and wants the root user password. I enter the root user password and it won’t accept anything I enter.
I know I can log into the DB with it because I can successfully mysql -u root -p and enter the appropriate password and it works just fine. but for some reason the installer doesn’t like it.
Any ideas?
Just Kidding :))))) I just added the other architectures under the helpful little NOTE: and it works just great! I Skim too much and don’t read enough. You guys are great.
@george1421 I already set up the BIOS-UEFI coexistance, but in that article it says there are several other UEFI architectures, I just didn’t know if there was some specific PCEClient:Arch:xxxxxxx architecture That is known to work with VMware
Another Quick question, anyone have any idea what efi file works with Vmware Workstation 12 EFI? do I need to create a seperate policy on the DHCP server for it? It looks like its starts to boot PXE but breaks right after downloading the NBP file
Thanks @george1421 Thats exactly what I expected. I am using VMware Workstation on my Local PC just to keep the images an snapshots and whatnot off from the Datastores.
I was using Workstation10 but it does not support EFI at all so I am upgrading to Workstation 12.5 as I speak 
I will rebuild my image with EFI and GPT Partition tables and we will be good to go for those devices that are EFI only, or even the ones that come EFI but support BIOS, we wont have to downgrade them to BIOS just to image.
Okay so I am sure my problem is the fact that my image is built on VMWare Workstation 10 with the Virtual BIOS and MBR Partition Tables and the Surfaces do not have a BIOS or legacy Mode at all, Just UEFI.
I will swap over to the ipxe7156.efi and see if that is more reliable.
I don’t believe bitlocker encypted the drive. I was able to reinstall the OS with the Windows 10 OS CD you download right from online.
Has anyone successfully imaged a Surface Pro 4? I’ve read through the “Surface Pro” section but everyone is only having issues with getting the image to deploy or upload, I was able to get the image I have built to deploy just fine but I had to turn secure boot off all together to get it to load the ipxe.efi but when it reboots after imaging the screen flickers a bunch and then it just boots into UEFI Wont even get to the “starting windows” icon.
So two questions
1.) Is there a specific EFI file that works with the secure boot turned on,
2.) for those who did get it to work what partition style did you use, MBR or GPT?
Excuse the formatting, I have this section in the XML it has worked in the passed, maybe it rebooted twice and I didnt catch it, maybe it was on the third reboot and set not to auto login.
<AutoLogon>
<Password>
<Value>MAA4ADAAOQBwAHcANABzAHIAcwBkACEAUABhAHMAcwB3AG8AcgBkAA==</Value>
<PlainText>false</PlainText>
</Password>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<LogonCount>2</LogonCount>
<Username>Administrator</Username>
</AutoLogon>
Not a big deal.
Good News,
It looks like clearing out the WinPE section of the answer file allowed it to pass! I just have to figure out the copy profile thing and the autologin, It auto logged in once but that was it. as well as leaving the defaultprofile0 on the machine… but I think i can get that.
You may be able to change the iPXE boot menu exit mode to “exit” or I have had luck changing it to “grub” too
@Quazz, I see what your saying, although I believe that the username is defined under the auto logon, at least that’t what I gathered watching you-tube. Almost as if you define a password for the default admin account it will be enabled by sysprep? What has worked in the passed for us is have the auto login information in there so the default admin account Logs in twice in order to get fog to rename and reboot.
I removed the entire WinPE section and we’ll see if that helps.
@KnightRaven We had a huge problem with AVG in years past with that exact type of thing but we found that if you turn off AVG self protection it will work. We are using the same version as years passed as well so I think I can safely rule that out.
as far as the copy profile thing I am using the system audit mode which I think uses the Administrator profile and copies it to the default user profile when sysprep runs. There are no other profiles on the computer.
Removing the WinPE section removes the drive setup, so I am going to give it another shot and see how hit goes! wish me luck
Unless it was included in the Image in a folder on the 
drive or something. I could try to upload without deleting it and see if that helps
Ohhhh I hate how that happens? Think it might be the CPI Source WIM pointing to a file I deleted? haha not sure how important that is.
You are very right @Quazz I have had AVG cause that problem as well, I remember being able to find a log back when that happened though, in my case you have to disable AVG self protection in order for it to go through the setup.
Would you prefer I attach as text or as an attached file?
I created a unattend.xml using System Image manager and I am having trouble with it and windows 10 Build 1607, after I sysprep and upload and then deploy (which all works fantastic thanks to all the help here) Windows begins to go through the XML file and answers all the setup questions, I then get the annoying popup "Windows has restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error Windows installation cannot proceed. click okay to reboot…blah blah blah.
I’ve searched the internet up and down and everyone just say use the registry editor to set the child completion status to 3 or something like that (I don’t remember exactly) and it will get passed it. although I don’t want to do that because its going to happen on every machine and I don’t want to touch every machine.
I should add that I have checked the Setuperr.log and the setupact.log in C:\Windows\Panther (both are blank) and just about every other log in that folder and got nothing.
Maybe one of you guys that are super good with the answer files could look at it or something see if anything pops out? I am going on round 3 and its very time consuming.
So I am not really sure what I did, it was some combination of commands but it let me install it just fine… I’ll take it.
This can be marked as solved I guess!