Posts made by BigDawg986

Hey guys,

Someone uploaded an image on top of one of my images today. I can tell from the timestamp of the image file in Linux. Is there anyway i can find out which host or fog user uploaded that image?

@Junkhacker OK changing the boot exit type solved the problem on my z200/210 trying to boot to SAN. However, I got bad info from my colleague in that the z230 error is prior to the PXE boot menu not after exiting. I have some z230’s that work fine, others hang at the “Intializing devices” message prior to the fog pxe menu. They have the same Intel Boot agent version of 1.4.03 Any ideas why some of these will not PXE boot and others will?

@Junkhacker Ahhh, thanks Junkhacker! That should be easy enough. I will first try changing to grub and see what happens

Tom,

Thank you so much for your very quick response. Please forgive my ignorance but some of the info is not familiar to me. I can figure out how to change .kpxe files, I assume I just grab the .kkpxe rename the old one and copy the kkpxe to the filename undionly.kpxe or do I change the bootfile name in the dhcp scope to the .kkpxe name? But the other info you provided about IPXE statement, grub and exit types is not familiar to me and I’m not sure what to do in that in direction. I am not a linux expert but I have been very comfortable setting up, troubleshooting, changing and customizing whatever I had to do in Linux and fog up through version .32 . I am running Ubuntu 12.04 with fog 1.2 so any details you can provide for this environment to help me get my z series workstation to boot beyond the fog pxe menu is most appreciated.

I have almost 100 HP z200/210/220/230 workstations that worked just fine under Fog .32. Since building a new server with Fog 1.2 these workstations will all PXE boot to the fog menu without issue. However when it exits the fog menu to continue booting to the hard drive the machines hang. Some hang with “Initializing devices” others seem to look for a SAN and hang there. I found some other threads that sound similar to this and my best guess is I need to change the .kpxe file. Can someone point me in the right direction of which file to get and where to update it on the server? Much thanks in advance!

[FONT=Consolas]wget -O /tftpboot/fog/kernel/bzImage [url]https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/web/service/ipxe/bzImage32[/url][/FONT]

You need to use the 32 bit kernel. A search of the forums should find you the link.

I tried both, no dice. When I rename it I get a {trying to load pxelinux could not find bootfile} type message. When I do the sym link I get the same error as in the pic I posted.

I set my new fog box with the same IP as the old one and I am just unplugging/plugging them in when I need production at the moment. I will research the sym link and try if possible, otherwise I will do the dnsmasq. Thanks for your input, your comment about the tftp file is what made me go “oh yeah the pxe file name is different above .32”

I am starting to think this is an issue with the scope settings for the boot filename. 067 needs to be changed from pxelinux.0 to undionly.kpxe since I am trying to move from .31 to 1.2. I set the new fog server up to use dhcp for expediency sake so as not to have to involve the people that manage our dhcp until I had it up. I think I will try DNSMASQ for now and once I can see that I can indeed move my production box to 1.2 I will let theem know to make the change. If 067 is currently set to pxelinux.0 would DNSMASQ with proper settings for iPXE allow me to circumvent that while I test out 1.2?

My current production box is fog .31 on Ubu 10.04. The situation above happens on both my HP6005’s and 6305’s models.

Hi guys,

I setup a new box with Ubu 14.04 and Fog 1.2 I cannot get PXE menu. See the pic included with this post for what i get. After what you see in the picture it boots straight to the hard drive. Any ideas on what I need to check? Is there a key sequence I need to press to access the menu now?[ATTACH=full]1462[/ATTACH]

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While I am running my Fog on 10.04 LTS server I know many people are running it on desktop version. Have you all updated your Ubu to fix the exploit vulnerability? Also, would there be a reason desktop version is less safe than server i.e. out of support etc. 10.04 server goes out of support soon, is desktop already out of support and not eligible for the exploit fix.? Can I just do an in place release upgrade for Ubuntu to 12.04 without having to re-install/configure Fog? All of your input is appreciated.

Cheers,

Dawg

This worked! Thanks Tom. From what I can tell the first time I downloaded this kernel something went awry although I got no error messages and the file was possibly corrupted, only 4655 bytes?. (I used a -no-certificate-check with wget, if i dont use the no cert, i get an SSL error) I noticed this a.m. it was much smaller than a kernel file should be. So this time I downloaded it in my Windows browser and pushed it up to my Fog box via FTP. Success. Thanks a gain Tom!

I think I did, but got it from a different link. I will try again using the address you just provided and report back.

I know there are a couple of other threads related to this but sorting through all of it seems to lead me nowhere.

I ma running FOG .31 We got in a bunch of HP z230 workstations. They have a single 500GB Toshiba SATA3 drive. When trying to register the host with the BIOS drive setting to RAID or AHCI we get the hdparm error. If I set it to IDE, Fog reports it cannot find the drive. So…I manually registered the host and I set it to deploy an image and it tells me my kernel is corrupt or damaged.

I have tried the latest Tom Elliot kernel, the most recent KS kernel (which is ~4 years old) and tried the kernel I use successfully on my z220’s to no avail. Was there ever a definitive resolution to this problem?

[quote=“Jaymes Driver, post: 33964, member: 3582”]No when it says Multiboot I means Multiple Operating Systems on the hard drive, such as Windows and Linux on one machine but being able to choose the OS to boot to at each reboot.[/quote]

Thanks, I should have figured as much but whenever I set up multiboots I always put each OS in a separate partition so that’s why I asked.

I cannot speak for the bandwidth, but in .31 it seems to show GMT instead of the local time of the Ubuntu server.

Please clarify, when this says now supports multiboot re-sizable imaging, do you mean multi-partition resizable?

I am still on version .31 and have been hesitant to upgrade because I am the only tech in a 1,500 PC 3,000 user school and can’t risk the downtime.

[quote=“Albatros, post: 24014, member: 16710”]FOG can run batch files, no need to create a exe file for that. I however create a exe file If I have more than 1 file to run.[/quote]

I have a lot of batch files. I use psexec to push them to all my hosts to deploy software etc. Can someone tell me how to use these batch files as a FOG snap-in?