Posts made by bishoptf

[quote=“PatinMT, post: 12136, member: 913”]@bishoptf - are you using the chainloading solution on the 3010s, or can you get successful pxe boot without that?

Thanks, Pat[/quote]
Yeah I have been using chainloading for sometime, I was having issues with some vostros, even now though sometimes it doesn’t always want to boot off of the Hard drive sometimes, but a reboot usually corrects that. I am also using SSD’s so that may add to what I am seeing. The other thing to note is that I do not have mine always boot through the FOG loader on startup, I use it more of a backup and imaging tool so I usually only boot into fog from a wol wakeup, so that way most users never see the fog screen. Although the new Dell bios with the 3010 seems to boot whatever you did the last time even though it is not selected.

Update, I have a newer kernel that appears to be working for the Dell 3010’s, I thought I had already posted this but it appears not. Took me a long time to get it to working and so far it is also working for my other Dell opti’s. If anyone is in the need of the custom kernel shoot me a PM.

The only thing that is still odd is that on the 3010 when it boots it gets to one point and pauses (about a minute) or times out before carrying on, not sure what is the issue but it does work, but for now just happy to be getting images of all of the desktops.

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 10833, member: 18”]When I rebuilt my kernel, I chose to use the core.config from FOG, remove a few things I didn’t need and added a few things I did, including new source files for the ASIX usb networking drivers.

Compiling a custom kernel doesn’t take long once you’ve got the source files downloaded and the workstation configured. If the kernel for one of the newer ubuntu versions work, see if you can zcat /proc/config.gz to get the config out of it. You can also lsmod to see what modules are loaded so you know what you need to have selected when you compile your kernel.[/quote]

Chad,

I have good kernels that will boot the 3010, what I would like to know is what are the required kernel .config variables that I need to add. Looking at the core.configs I know I need nfs support and probably ntfs support but what are the other variables that I need to have loaded in order for everything to work.

I have looked and search but it does not appear to be listed, as for what are the minimum required .config variables that you need to have. I would assume a developer would be able to answer this quickly but not sure the best place to post…thanks.

Well the ubuntu .config witht the latest linux sources did not work either, however I do know that Ubuntu boots fine on the computer so it must be a driver conflict since most of its drivers are modules (ubuntu that is) and only load when needed vs loading all of them in the kernel.

My next plan of action is to figure out which modules I need for the 3010 and the other opti’s that I have and see if I can get something that works for all of them, at least try, otherwise I will have to have 2 kernels.

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 10833, member: 18”]When I rebuilt my kernel, I chose to use the core.config from FOG, remove a few things I didn’t need and added a few things I did, including new source files for the ASIX usb networking drivers.

Compiling a custom kernel doesn’t take long once you’ve got the source files downloaded and the workstation configured. If the kernel for one of the newer ubuntu versions work, see if you can zcat /proc/config.gz to get the config out of it. You can also lsmod to see what modules are loaded so you know what you need to have selected when you compile your kernel.[/quote]

You can find the .config files in the /boot directory, I’m building now as we speak, I used their config and just turned of the makke modules option so it compiles with the drivers, we will see if it works or not…

So I am in the process of trying to get one kernel for a bunch of Dell’s, and the newer ones are having issues and will not boot with the other kernel. So I know the kernel is monolithic in that it contains all of the drivers it needs and the wike refers to using one of the .config files to start with, what I am trying to understand is what is in the baseline .conf and what is required. Is there any reason that I could not take a baseline ubuntu .config file and re-complile and select monolithic and use that one?

The reason I ask is that the newer Ubuntu versions boot on the machines and work just fine, so I know they can work just wanting to understand more about the requirements for the kernel.

I’ve looked and looked and done this more than once on centos 5.x machines, but I am having an issue getting centos 6.2 up and working…all of the packages are downloading fine but I get an error when it gets to setting up and starting Apache Web Server…Iptables and selinux turned off…

Configuring services.

• Setting up fog user…Exists
• Setting up and starting MySql…OK
• Backing up user reports…OK
• Setting up and starting Apache Web Server…Failed! (2)

Not sure what the error (2) means I have looked at the functions script and it looks straight forward, just not sure what the deal is…any suggestions would be great, thanks!

********Solved, geez you can waste more time on the simple things…so it was my hostname wasn’t set for some reason, fixed that and we are good to go…

service httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for xxxx.xxx
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName