Posts made by ayoward

@Sebastian-Roth Sorted. Many thanks for your help!!

I know you can set it up at initial install as a DHCP server, but not sure how to go about it after it has been running for a while.

Hi everyone,

Having moved offices to a “hip” location, there is hardly any structured cabling (much to my annoyance) which means I can no longer have my Fog Server on the network like it was so I now need it to be standalone. Is there a way that I can have the Fog Server now be it’s own DHCP server and have it dish out IP addresses to all the machines I plug into the attached switch?

Thanks,

Andrew

@george1421 That has sorted it. Genius!!

Thanks so much

@george1421 I just copied what you put and made the change to the IP address details. The rest is verbatim.

@george1421 said in Adding normal wipe to PXE boot menu:

imgargs loglevel=4 initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=275000 keymap= web=${fog-ip}/fog consoleblank=0 loglevel=4 capone=1 mode=wipe wipemode=fast mac=00:00:00:00:00:00
boot || goto MENU

All seems to be going well until we get the below

Re: Remote wipe

Does this work in the current version of FOG? I have looked at several threads on remote wiping machines, but none of them seem to be conclusive for the current version. Can I have an option on my PXE boot menu that allows me to select normal wipe, or do I need to use DBAN? The native wipe in Fog works fine and I have been using that, but currently my process is

1. PXE boot the machine and select Quick Registration and Inventory
2. Find that new machine in the hosts menu and assign the normal wipe task
3. Reboot machine for PXE to pick it up again and perform the task

Is there any way that I can just add normal wipe to the menu and if so how? Does the post I referenced at the beginning work on the1.5.5 version?

I have looked at:

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10786/dban-fog-boot-menu
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11742/add-wipe-disk-to-the-pxe-menu
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9211/add-wipe-option-to-fog-boot-menu
and https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/4791/fast-wipe-in-advanced-menu

but I not sure any of them cover what I am after.

Thanks

@george1421 @Junkhacker @Sebastian-Roth That has cracked it!! Thanks so much for your help!!

@george1421 and before I added that line into default.ipxe, there was nothing in there. Should I copy what you have in yours into mine?

@george1421 the file is definitely there.

## Start of FOG Settings
## Created by the FOG Installer
## Find more information about this file in the FOG Project wiki:
##     https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=.fogsettings
## Version: 1.5.5
## Install time: Mon 29 Apr 2019 05:41:48 PM EDT
ipaddress='10.60.16.129'
copybackold='0'
interface='ens32'
submask='255.255.255.0'
routeraddress='#   No router address added'
plainrouter=''
dnsaddress='127.0.0.53'
username='fog'
password='***********'
osid='2'
osname='Debian'
dodhcp='N'
bldhcp='0'
dhcpd=''
blexports='1'
installtype='N'
snmysqluser='root'
snmysqlpass=''
snmysqlhost='localhost'
installlang='0'
storageLocation='/images'
fogupdateloaded=1
docroot='/var/www/html/'
webroot='/fog/'
caCreated='yes'
httpproto='http'
startrange=''
endrange=''
bootfilename='undionly.kpxe'
packages='apache2 bc build-essential cpp curl g++ gawk gcc genisoimage gzip htmldoc isolinux lftp libapache2-mod-php7.1 libc6 libcurl4 liblzma-dev m4 mysql-client mysql-server net-tools nfs-kernel-server openssh-server php7.1 php7.1-bcmath php7.1-cli php7.1-curl php7.1-fpm php7.1-gd php7.1-json php7.1-ldap php7.1-mbstring php7.1-mysql php-gettext tar tftpd-hpa tftp-hpa unzip vsftpd wget xinetd zlib1g '
noTftpBuild=''
notpxedefaultfile=''
sslpath='/opt/fog/snapins/ssl/'
backupPath='/home/'
php_ver='7.1'
php_verAdds='-7.1'
sslprivkey='/opt/fog/snapins/ssl//.srvprivate.key'
## End of FOG Settings

Mod Note: Fixed post formating-Geo*

@george1421

Yes, the Fog server is at 10.60.16.129

The result of the command is chain http://10.60.16.129/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php##params

@Sebastian-Roth

Thanks for you help. Looking at the output here I can already see a problem, but which file do I edit?

#!ipxe
set fog-ip 10.60.16.129
set fog-webroot fog
set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}
cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386
goto get_console
:console_set
colour --rgb 0x00567a 1 ||
colour --rgb 0x00567a 2 ||
colour --rgb 0x00567a 4 ||
cpair --foreground 7 --background 2 2 ||
goto MENU
:alt_console
cpair --background 0 1 ||
cpair --background 1 2 ||
goto MENU
:get_console
console --picture http://10.60.16.129/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80 && goto console_set || goto alt_console
:MENU
menu
colour --rgb 0xff0000 0 ||
cpair --foreground 1 1 ||
cpair --foreground 0 3 ||
cpair --foreground 4 4 ||
item --gap Host is NOT registered!
item --gap – -------------------------------------
item fog.local Boot from hard disk
item fog.memtest Run Memtest86+
item fog.reginput Perform Full Host Registration and Inventory
item fog.reg Quick Registration and Inventory
item fog.deployimage Deploy Image
item fog.multijoin Join Multicast Session
item fog.sysinfo Client System Information (Compatibility)
choose --default fog.local --timeout 3000 target && goto ${target}
:fog.local
sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80 || goto MENU
:fog.memtest
kernel memdisk initrd=memtest.bin iso raw
initrd memtest.bin
boot || goto MENU
:fog.reginput
kernel bzImage32 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 web=http://10.60.16.129/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 storage=10.60.16.129:/images/ storageip=10.60.16.129 loglevel=4 mode=manreg
imgfetch init_32.xz
boot || goto MENU
:fog.reg
kernel bzImage32 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 web=http://10.60.16.129/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 storage=10.60.16.129:/images/ storageip=10.60.16.129 loglevel=4 mode=autoreg
imgfetch init_32.xz
boot || goto MENU
:fog.deployimage
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param qihost 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
param sysuuid ${uuid}
:fog.multijoin
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param sessionJoin 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
param sysuuid ${uuid}
:fog.sysinfo
kernel bzImage32 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 web=http://10.60.16.129/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 storage=10.60.16.129:/images/ storageip=10.60.16.129 loglevel=4 mode=sysinfo
imgfetch init_32.xz
boot || goto MENU
:bootme
chain -ar http://10.60.16.129/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php##params ||
goto MENU
autoboot

So, the screenshot is from a linux test box, so I got hold of a test Dell laptop that we have also and I have updated the BIOS on that to the latest from Dell and the same thing happens. It hangs at the same point.

Hi folks,

For some reason, my network boot just hangs at what seems like the first hurdle. I have tried to follow all the instructions, but as a novice, I don’t mind saying there is probably something really obvious that I’m not doing. All I want to do is have the host register with the server so that I can push the disk wiping facility. The default.ipxe just contains

chain http://10.60.16.129/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php##params

So I’m not sure what I need to do next. Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks,

Andrew