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Well, it has drive C and D, so thats why it has 3. But that shouldn’t be a problem.My HDD are 1TB (all equal).My computers are i7 4770, in an Asus B85M-G motherboard,mwith 8GB RAM. I have latest BIOS (0908) and UEFI is disabled (legacy mode).After preparing the image (with fogprep and all), I shut down the computer. Then, make an image using Acronis TrueImage and then I upload the image.If I deploy it in Fog, I have the problem of after the Fog menu getting an bkank screen.If I use Acrojis to restore image from external HDD, then image is correctly deployed, name is changed by Fog, and the machine is added to my Active Directory.

Have you tried using undionly.INTEL as your undionly.kpxe file?

Checked /image and all images are there (filetype d1.mbr and d1p1.img + d1p2.img + d1p3.img).
Permissions are 777

Created simple image (just Windows 7 Enterprise)… no drivers, nothing else.
Uploaded image to Fog (image created with “Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable)”.
Then, on te same computer with exactly the same settings, deployed image and after Fog menu… nothing (keeps returning to Fog menu).
Booted with the same DVD media I used to install Windows, and when I press “Rapair computer”, it says this System Recovery Options version is not compatible with the Windows version your trying to repair (…)".
Really stuck here, and desperetly needing to have my new 35 machines working for teaching purposes…

Any help is really welcome. Thank you guys for being available…

[quote=“Baite, post: 28665, member: 24308”]UPDATE: If I deploy the images manually with Acronis TrueImage, I get them to BOOT but ONLY forcing boot from HDD through BIOS. It does not wboot if going through PXE.

Any suggestion?[/quote]
This gets fixed by changing from Exit mode back to Sanboot mode.
So I assume the problem is another - related with deployment of images or the image itself (Fog not supporting something that exists in the image).
Image is from single disk, with severall partitions. Chose that type of image when creting it in Fog (single disk, multiple partition).
As I posted in other place, can it be related to GPT/MBR?

I’m creating a new image only with Windows 7 Enterprise x64 to test deployment and see if it works. I will post results soon.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 28673, member: 7271”]Try upgrading the BIOS and see if that helps out.[/quote]
Thank you for all your help so far, Tom.
BIOS is already latest version… that was one of the first things I checked.

I had to change the Exit type in FOG Configuration -> PXE Menu -> Boot Exit Type back to Sanboot Style, because in Exit style no computer could boot with PXE active.

All of this leads me back to one thing: my images aren’t getting deployed properly, as I assumed.

Read something about MBR and GPT. Does Fog support GPT partitions? I read that if we were using an EFI BIOS, Windows automaticaly creates partitions in GPT mode… is this correct? Could this be the problem?

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 28446, member: 7271”]You can also use any of the ipxe.*pxe files in trunk and this should work for you as well as it’s basically the same.[/quote]
For me to use any of those files, I just need to replace the undionly.kpxe file with that one, right?

[quote=“Baite, post: 28657, member: 24308”]But if I deploy the images manually using other software (Acronis TrueImage) with PXE active, they boot nicely.[/quote]
UPDATE: If I deploy the images manually with Acronis TrueImage, I get them to BOOT but ONLY forcing boot from HDD through BIOS. It does not wboot if going through PXE.

Any suggestion?

[quote=“Gilou, post: 28631, member: 3221”]Does it work when you reboot and force it to boot on the hard drive from the bios/boot menu?

I have a lot of new Dell machines that won’t boot off the disk if they started using PXE, and PXE tells them to use the disk… There’s some doc about it, but it’s annoying as hell :)[/quote]
But if I deploy the images manually using other software (Acronis TrueImage) with PXE active, they boot nicely.

[quote=“TheKoR, post: 28645, member: 24285”]AHCI -> Create
IRRT -> Deploy
AHCI -> Reboot

I have the problem with e6400 with old bios version[/quote]
Well, my system was AHCI when I created the image…
What do you mean with IRRT? In my BIOS I only have IDE/AHCI/Disabled modes in SATA mode selection.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 28647, member: 7271”]Good, that’s how you’re supposed to do it, but the system that’s trying to boot ALSO needs to be in legacy mode.[/quote]
It also is in Legacy mode…
Just deployed new image now, and still not working.

[quote=“TheKoR, post: 28634, member: 24285”]Try to deploy in sata mode : IRRT, and then reboot in AHCI for win7 and Compatible for XP[/quote]
What do you mean with SATA mode? You mean I should create the image withouth AHCI enabled and then after uploading it, I may enable AHCI again? I am trying to deploy Windows 7 Enterprise images (x64)

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 28629, member: 7271”]My guess, the images are set to UEFI boot but trying to go through pure legacy modes?[/quote]
What do you mean by “are set to UEFI boot”? I uploaded the image from a PC with legacy mode enabled.

[quote=“Gilou, post: 28631, member: 3221”]Does it work when you reboot and force it to boot on the hard drive from the bios/boot menu?

I have a lot of new Dell machines that won’t boot off the disk if they started using PXE, and PXE tells them to use the disk… There’s some doc about it, but it’s annoying as hell :)[/quote]
No… if I force boot from HDD in BIOS, it also won’t boot… keeps returning to BIOS

Ok, now it leaves the Foog menu, but all I get is a blank screen (with a white small dash in some of the computers)

Hello to all of you who are reading this thread.
After some fighting, I managed to have Fog working: computers can acess and register themselves in Fog, I can upload images, and so on.
The problem is only in the deployment of images… they are deployed well, but then, when I restart those machines after having their new image, they won’t boot: the Fog menu appears, have a time countdown (3s) and then the menu appears again.
Can anyone tell me what to do? I read somewhere about some code we could add… but don’t know if that’s for my situation.

All images are ok, since I made an Acronis image (from the same computer I uploaded the image), and when I deploy this Acronis TrueImage manually, it all goes well: computer starts, name is changed, it’s added to Active Directory… it’s just the Fog deployment that makes this computers not to boot.

Thank you for all your help.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 28446, member: 7271”]You can also use any of the ipxe.*pxe files in trunk and this should work for you as well as it’s basically the same.[/quote]
Thank you, Tom.

[quote=“tamatech, post: 28445, member: 24111”]Baite:

Here’s my ipxe.kpxe.

Andy[/quote]
Thank you, Tamatech

Just tested tftp client frm Windows 7 in one of these HP dc7900p computers, and it worked.
After testing all this, it’s working.
Don’t ask me why or how… but it started working.
Thank you all for your support.

I’m using latest version of FOG (1.1.0) and undionly.kpxe.INTEL (which I renamed to undionly.kpxe).
My server is a CentOS 6.5 installed from zero, with option Basic Server.
Then downloaded Fog 1.1.0 (via SVN) and installed it through ./installfog.sh.
DHCP is handled by CISCO Switch, in a multiple VLAN environement, but all computers boot at the appropriate VLAN (quarentine VLAN, which is where the eth0 NIC card of the server is configured with static IP 10.1.8.1). All configuration (66 and 67) are present and correctly configured (the proof of this is that my 35 new machines all get access to Fog menu, and receive images).
The problem is only with my HP dc7900p computers, which at PXE boot show this error (PXE-E53). They were working perfectly with Fog 0.32 (it’s 350 of them, and all got imaged severall times).
From a Windows 7 client, I managed to get th undionly.kpxe file using “tftp 10.1.8.1 get undionly.kpxe”.