Just revisited this - I set up a brand new ubuntu desktop and installed nothing but Fog on it - I reformatted the problem laptop and did nothing but put 1 txt document on desktop. I also reset the toshiba bios.

To check fog was working, I took a working laptop and did a quick host, an upload, and a deploy all successfully.

I then took the problem laptop, managed to get the PXE to boot to fog menu, did a ‘quick host’ first time, completed an upload (to a new image file) first time also, went to deploy it - and it got stuck at the same place as the video. Just dispays a ‘#’ when it should go to the blue screen.

I’m about to throw it all out the window.

Hi all.

I’m going to be buying some new laptops for our work place and was wondering if there were any special brands or specs to avoid when it comes to ghosting?

90% of my units are currently Toshiba u500s, and apart from 1 unit (which i swear is possessed!) everything seems to be smooth sailing.

If there are any brands or specs to avoid (purely because of FOG reasons) I’d love a heads up now

(I wont be buying ACER / DELL / HP - I’m more likely looking at Toshiba, ASUS, Samsung at this stage)

thanks

for the record, this was never solved/fixed.

I’ve literally no idea wtf is wrong with this unit. After tax time, I’ll just buy some new laptops and use this line as ‘backup’.

ok two things;

first - no. no usb in laptop.
second - on closer inspection two laptops (1xworking and 1xshitty) have different harddrive hardware ids. I don’t know if that makes a difference. I assume not as two working laptops also have different id’s - AND - i swapped harddrives between laptops.

everything else, settings and hardware wise, is the same.

Still scratching my head over this one.

It’s all good jason. Thanks for the reply.

but yeah. what you wrote is completely correct.

Also, I might add that all laptops can upload. Even the ‘bad’ one. It will upload an image just fine. it just can’t deploy anything.

bump

update : Just swapped the harddrive of the trouble laptop with another one, and the good laptop deployed a treat, the trouble one froze at same place.

I’ve just gone through the bios to ensure that both are identical and still can’t figure it out. :S

I hadn’t done that yet jason, but i have to admit that thought had crossed my mind. it just makes no sense to me that it worked when i setup fog in the first place, but suddenly not one day. Could be corrupt hard drive. I’ll investigate and keep this thread updated.

re-updated the bios to 1.90 and still see no harddrive mode options…which is frustrating because on other bios’ i know exactly what you’re asking me to find…I just dont seem to have access on this piece of ***t.

Angry David

Hi jason. Yeah, I tried it all before christmas and kinda got fed up with it so just banished the laptop to a cupboard, but now we need to start using it again (my boss asked ‘‘i thought we had 5 laptops?’’) so I’ve gotta come up with a solution.

The Toshiba Laptops are ‘Satellite U500 PSU9MA-00K013’

Fog was correctly identifying the bios as v1.70 ((It also correctly identified when i was using 1.90)).

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To be doubly sure, I just created a new image specifically for this laptop, uploaded it without a problem, but when i try to deploy that image on itself, it hangs in exactly the same way. (???wtf???).

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Hi Kevin, The bios the latop is currently using is rubbish and as far as i can see, doesn’t display that information. It’s using the aptio setup utility so if you’re familiar with that, I’m happy to upload pictures or anything that may be useful.

I just loaded the ‘Setup Defaults’, changed boot order back to PXE first and tried - same thing.

Thanks for the help guys. when we nail this, I’ll chuck you all a few paypals for a beer or two

hi jason.

the other 4 laptops are deploying/uploading just fine. they are all using the same image file too (identical laptop specs).

the problem laptop, laptop 5, CAN upload new images. It access the fog menu just fine, and responds perfectly when there is an active task telling it to deploy the master image - it just wont actually go past the menu in the video.

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Since posting, I’ve done a complete new setup. I’ve reformatted both my ubuntu server and all laptops. Started completly fresh and the problem is still happening…This leads me to conclude it MUST be something to do with this laptop specifically - but what I don’t know. It use to work… there’s been no hardware switching. the ONLY difference I can see is it’s using a newer bios than the others…so I’ll try flashing back to a previous bios and see if that fixes anything.

dave

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EDIT : Downgraded bios back to 1.70 and has done nothing. Same errors as before.

EDIT2 : Just upgraded the Kernel to 3.8.8, getting a new error now.

[code]
…same as before…
acerhdf: unknown (unsupported) BIOS version TOSHIBA/Satellite U500/1.70, please report, aborting!
sd 10:0:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
sd 10:0:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 10:0:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
sd 10:0:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 10:0:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
sd 10:0:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through

[code][/code]

keen for this!

Hi there everyone.

I’ve got fog installed and running perfectly on 5 laptops at home. Each laptop has its own image and for a while, all was well. However, one of my laptops has started to not deploy properly.

What happens once a deploy is scheduled and the machine is turned on appears normal. It boots from PXE, displays the FOG TFTP prefix: screen where it lists a few errors (that have always been there and there on the other 4 laptops) … then stops.

It reads;

[quote]

FOG FOG FOG FOG

TFTP prefix:

Trying to load : pxelinux.cfg/00bf56fe-550a-df81-2f6f-e0cb4e88a7bb

Trying to load : pxelinux.cfg/01-e0-cb-4e-88-a7-bb

Loading fog/kernel/bzImage…

…

…

Loading fog/imags/init.gz…

…ready.

[ 0.504051] tps65010 : no chip?

[ 0.896509] acpiphp_ibm : ibm_acpiphp_init : acpi_walk_namespace_failed

[ 0.504051] tps65010 : no chip?

[ 0.896509] acpiphp_ibm : ibm_acpiphp_init : acpi_walk_namespace_failed

[ 0.898344] nvidiafb: unknown NV_ARCH

[ 0.899360] Could not find Carillo Ranch MCH device.

[ 0.899675] uvesafb : failed to execute /sbin/v86d

[ 0.899745] uvesafb : make sure that the v86d helper is installed and executable

[ 0.899827] uvesafb : Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=-2)

[ 0.899898] uvesafb : vbe_init() failed with -Z2

[ 1.9689771] dr./i810 does not support SMP

[ 2.075008] [drm] nouvea 000:01:00.0: Pointer to BIT loadval table invalid

[ 5.248408] Error: Driver ‘mdio-gpio’ is already registered, aborting…

[ 5.255162] cs89x0: request_region(0x320, 0x10) failed

[ 5.256990] LocalTalk card not found; 220 = ff, 240 =ff.

[ 5.344055] wistro_btns: system unknown

[ 5.346386] acer_wmiL bno or unsupported WMI inferface, unable to load

[ 5.346400] acerhdf: unknown (unsupported) BIOS version TOSHIBA/Satellite U500/1.90, please report, aborting!

[/quote]

then it sits there waiting for me to type something.

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[media=youtube]NU59YXyRl60[/media]

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I’ve tried manually removing the process from both the web interface AND /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/ - I’ve tried reformatting the laptop manually, deleting the host/image from FOG, and basically starting again - Neither have worked.

The strange thing is - I was able to perform a ‘backup’, just not deploy to this machine.

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Also, if I type ‘fog’ and hit enter whilst on that screen, it loads for a second then reads;

[code]“Cannot read “/proc/partitions”. (No such file or directory). Then, you must use the command line to run Partition Image. Type ‘partimage–help’ for help.” [/code]

then;

[code] You haven’t accss to /proc/mounts.[/code]

Any ideas?

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Any help would be extremely grateful. The other 4 laptops are still working a treat… :-z

Hi there. Sorry for the massive late reply - this hasn’t fixed the issue. There were no processes waiting or clogging up the system. :-z

When i type ‘fog’ and hit enter whilst on that screen, it loads for a second then reads;

[code]“Cannot read “/proc/partitions”. (No suck file or directory). Then, you must use the command line to run Partition Image. Type ‘partimage–help’ for help.” [/code]

then;

[code] You haven’t accss to /proc/mounts.[/code]

Any ideas?

The youtube video above is still happening (even when I’ve tried reformatting the laptop, re-uploading it to a new image/host - and when i try using an existing image that works on other laptops of the same make/model).

Thanks for the reply - I will try that this afternoon and let you know how it goes.

Can anyone throw any ideas my way? Need to get this laptop back in the game asap.

Strange update – I deleted both the image and host from fog, reformatted the laptop again installed drivers/programs and went to start it to do a host import. This time, even though there was no scheduled task, or even host registered via FOG for that address, instead of displaying the fog menu, it did the same as my OP.

Here’s a video of it doing its thing. I get typing commands so I did a ‘dir’ to see where it was stopping or starting from…

[media=youtube]NU59YXyRl60[/media]

help?

I’ve tried reformatting the toshia manually and making a new image for it - but i still can’t deploy on to it.

Bios has been reset (and PXE put as first load point), there are no logs that I can find that display anything either.

bit of a strange one. :s

Hi there everyone.

I’ve got fog installed and running perfectly on 5 laptops at home. Each laptop has its own image and for a while, all was well. However, one of my laptops has started to not deploy properly.

What happens once a deploy is scheduled and the machine is turned on appears normal. It boots from PXE, displays the FOG TFTP prefix: screen where it lists a few errors (that have always been there and there on the other 4 laptops) … then stops.

It reads;

[quote]
FOG FOG FOG FOG
TFTP prefix:
Trying to load : pxelinux.cfg/00bf56fe-550a-df81-2f6f-e0cb4e88a7bb
Trying to load : pxelinux.cfg/01-e0-cb-4e-88-a7-bb
Loading fog/kernel/bzImage…
…
…
Loading fog/imags/init.gz…
…ready.
[ 0.504051] tps65010 : no chip?
[ 0.896509] acpiphp_ibm : ibm_acpiphp_init : acpi_walk_namespace_failed
[ 0.504051] tps65010 : no chip?
[ 0.896509] acpiphp_ibm : ibm_acpiphp_init : acpi_walk_namespace_failed
[ 0.898344] nvidiafb: unknown NV_ARCH
[ 0.899360] Could not find Carillo Ranch MCH device.
[ 0.899675] uvesafb : failed to execute /sbin/v86d
[ 0.899745] uvesafb : make sure that the v86d helper is installed and executable
[ 0.899827] uvesafb : Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=-2)
[ 0.899898] uvesafb : vbe_init() failed with -Z2
[ 1.9689771] dr./i810 does not support SMP
[ 2.075008] [drm] nouvea 000:01:00.0: Pointer to BIT loadval table invalid
[ 5.248408] Error: Driver ‘mdio-gpio’ is already registered, aborting…
[ 5.255162] cs89x0: request_region(0x320, 0x10) failed
[ 5.256990] LocalTalk card not found; 220 = ff, 240 =ff.
[ 5.344055] wistro_btns: system unknown
[ 5.346386] acer_wmiL bno or unsupported WMI inferface, unable to load
[ 5.346400] acerhdf: unknown (unsupported) BIOS version TOSHIBA/Satellite U500/1.90, please report, aborting!

[/quote]

then it sits there waiting for me to type something.

The strange thing is - I can make more ‘backups’, just not deploy to this machine.

Any help would be extremely grateful. The other 4 still work a treat… :-z