Posts made by Ben Warfield

@Wayne-Workman Yeah I’ve tried all the .efi files in the tftpboot directory, all with the same results. I’ll keep looking around. Thanks!

Hi,
Has anyone been successful using fog to image a Microsoft Surface 3? Not a pro, just a 3. I’m stuck on the step during imaging where it says looking for hard disks… an error has been detected, cannot find HDD on system. I searched the forum but only see posts relating to the pro. I’m currently on fog version 4290

I think I found a bug in group service settings, coupled with AD settings. When I’m editing a group and make a change in the active directory page, the services are cleared for all hosts in the group. I’m currently on r3511.

That didn’t work for me, but in another way. I installed r3500 yesterday. When I upload, something fills up the remaining hard disk space. I went from 200gb free space to 0kb free space, my server crashed, and I had to revert to a snapshot.

Edit: I found out the hard disk space issue was unrelated to fog. We had a disk fail in the SAN and our network guy was in the process of replacing it.

One definite bug I did notice in r3500 is full registration and imaging now. When I full register a host, if I select yes to image now and put in my username and password, the task is not started.

I’ll see if I can give that a try at home over the weekend. Our server here at work is pretty much off limits for testing right now since we’ll be hitting it fairly hard in the coming weeks.

The problem is happening on any new images I upload with multiple partition, single disk - regardless of machine type. But at least I figured out what’s going on. So after I upload, I just have to copy the d1.mbr file from an older image and then the new one downloads okay. Thanks for helping.

Unfortunately I’m at the point in the year where I don’t have the time to troubleshoot further or update to newer trunks. I’ve made my images and next week we’ll begin deploying to around 3000 machines. I’m looking forward to new and exciting fog updates when I get to experiment more at the end of summer. Thanks for all everyone does!

Hmm, all the permissions are correct. Everything is set to 777. I did a lot of testing yesterday, and after a good nights sleep, I’ve come to the conclusion that something is wrong with the d1.mbr file. If I copy the d1.mbr file from an older image from the same machine, to the new image directory, I am able to download the new image. Thoughts?

Yep. I’ve uploaded images from this machine before but I can’t put my finger on anything that has changed. I’m able to upload/download from other machines with no issue - different image, but same image type and everything.

Sorry if this is a duplicate post… having some trouble searching the forum.

I’m on fog r3400, Ubuntu 12.04.
I’m trying to download an image and see a message go by:

Cannot open file for reading /images/NSLabsMay2015/d1.minimum.paritions
Restoring partition files, improper backup file.

Then the system reboots without restoring the image.

This is what the images directory looks like:

root@FOG2:/images/NSLabsMay2015# ls -l
total 24545160
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 105906176 May 26 13:47 d1.mbr
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 26 13:47 d1.original.swapuuids
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25028325947 May 26 14:21 d1p1.img

Am I doing something wrong when uploading? Image type is Multiple partition image - single disk (not resizable)

Love the speed increase. Download speeds went from 4gb/min to 8gb/min.

What the… nevermind, I’m not going to ask why that worked. It’s back now. Thanks

Haha okay, it just caught my eye and I thought it was odd that (seemingly) simple text disappeared.

Super minor detail… I went from r3318 to r3320, and now on the active tasks page the “pause auto update” button is just blue. The text is gone.

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Finally got a chance to get back to this!
Setting the usb nic flag doesn’t make a difference.

Hmmm… you lost me there. Or I’m having a brain moment. How do I set the USB nic flag?

Sure, these are the files currently working for me:

bzImage: [url]https://www.dropbox.com/s/m9ti2dieab1eqn9/bzImage?dl=0[/url]
init.xz: [url]https://www.dropbox.com/s/r3lsc4301h58jwx/init.xz?dl=0[/url]

Yep! - finally making progress haha

uname -rm returns this: 3.18.5 x86_64

[QUOTE]Where is this new r2961 build located, physically? Building “A” or the troubled building “B”[/QUOTE]
The new server is physically located in building A. All of our virtual infrastructure is there.

So I do have good news - it’s working, with some recovered files. Undionly.kpxe appears to have nothing to do it. The problem appears no matter which version of that I have.

The culprits seem to be init.xz and bzImage. I restored both of them from a backup from 2 weeks ago. When those restored files are in place, everything works happily on both r2961 and r3278. As Tom pointed out earlier, it looks like the revision version of FOG does not apply to these 2 files. It’s worth noting that replacing one or the other didn’t fix the problem - I had to replace both of them for it to work.

I see one major difference in debug mode, I attached a picture for clarity. The difference is I see the sending discover. It sends one discover, then the link comes up, another discover, and bingo - it gets an IP. That sending discover process does not show up in the bzImage/init.xz file combination that the installer script is currently downloading.

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Okay, good to know. I’m going to try to get those files off the VM backup just to see if they make a difference.

[QUOTE]What’s most intriguing to me is that it doesn’t work at one level but works fine elsewhere?[/QUOTE]
That’s very interesting to me too. And yet there are other machines connected to the same switch that are working, exact same port configurations.

So the latest update: I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 and fog r2961. Much to my surprise, I’m seeing the same behavior - the network is starting before the link is up, and it’s not getting an IP. “Downloading kernels and inits…OK” Is it downloading the latest and greatest kernel/init, no matter which revision I’m on? I did go into settings and revert back to a kernel from February, but same results. What does the init.xz file do, and is there a way I can get a version of that from back in February?