Thanks @george1421, will look into this especially the USB to ethernet (will have to purchase though).

I would like to consult if it will be possible to deploy image using wireless ethernet of laptops. Newer models of laptop nowadays are being produced with no built-in wired ethernet cards and just rely on wireless connection.

However, I can not wrap around myself the idea that laptop will be booting with wireless ethernet, connect to a wireless network (SSID) before it boot to an OS (Windows).

Moreover, just to be more detailed, I am looking to deploy to Lenovo Thinkpad X13 models.

Thank you in advance.

@sebastian-roth Thank you. I have not exchanged .efi for .*pxe, it’s what’s in the configuration by default. I’ve only added the “authoritative;” line and changed the UEFI 64 files to intel.efi instead of ipxe.efi. Also, I’ve also used snponly.efi which returns the same result with intel.efi. I decided to use snponly.efi for the meantime while on testing stage.

Already found the issue. I should have used intel.efi in the dhcpd.conf

Even modifying /opt/fog/.fogsettings## Start of FOG Settings

## Created by the FOG Installer
## Find more information about this file in the FOG Project wiki:
##     https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=.fogsettings
## Version: 1.5.9
## Install time: Tuesday, 07 December, 2021 04:31:05 PM PST
ipaddress='192.168.168.1'
copybackold='0'
interface='eth1'
submask='255.255.255.0'
hostname='fogserver.roxascruztagle.com'
routeraddress=''
plainrouter=''
dnsaddress='192.168.168.1'
username='fogproject'
password='CZlabU9M1Uxla$xzhmjJ'
osid='2'
osname='Debian'
dodhcp='y'
bldhcp='1'
dhcpd='isc-dhcp-server'
blexports='1'
installtype='N'
snmysqluser='fogmaster'
snmysqlpass='GqVzstO7r8I29NkVsgy@'
snmysqlhost='localhost'
mysqldbname='fog'
installlang='0'
storageLocation='/images'
fogupdateloaded=1
docroot='/var/www/'
webroot='/fog/'
caCreated='yes'
httpproto='http'
startrange='192.168.168.10'
endrange='192.168.168.254'
# bootfilename='undionly.kpxe'  --for legacy BIOS only.  For UEFI x64, see next line
bootfilename='ipxe.efi'
packages='apache2 bc build-essential cpp curl g++ gawk gcc genisoimage git gzip htmldoc isc-dhcp-server isolinux lftp libapache2-mod-php7.3 libc6 libcurl4 l$
noTftpBuild=''
sslpath='/opt/fog/snapins/ssl/'
backupPath='/home/'
armsupport='0'
php_ver='7.3'
php_verAdds='-7.3'
sslprivkey='/opt/fog/snapins/ssl//.srvprivate.key'
## End of FOG Settings

Either bootfilename=‘ipxe.efi’ or ‘undionly.kpxe’ still produces same erroneous result of “Jan 5 13:39:26 fogserver in.tftpd[2969]: tftp: client does not accept options”

Fog Server v. 1.5.9 enabled with dhcp (through fog setup)

• VM client using Legacy - working

• VM client UEFI (with or w/o secure boot enabled) - not working.

• NBP file downloaded successfully.

• stuck in initializing devices.

syslog (dhcp) log:

Jan 5 11:41:15 fogserver dhcpd[698]: reuse_lease: lease age 387 (secs) under 25% threshold, reply with unaltered, existing lease for 192.168.168.17
Jan 5 11:41:15 fogserver dhcpd[698]: DHCPDISCOVER from 0e:20:30:cb:fc:1e via eth1
Jan 5 11:41:16 fogserver dhcpd[698]: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.168.17 to 0e:20:30:cb:fc:1e via eth1
Jan 5 11:41:18 fogserver dhcpd[698]: reuse_lease: lease age 390 (secs) under 25% threshold, reply with unaltered, existing lease for 192.168.168.17
Jan 5 11:41:18 fogserver dhcpd[698]: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.168.17 (192.168.168.1) from 0e:20:30:cb:fc:1e via eth1
Jan 5 11:41:18 fogserver dhcpd[698]: DHCPACK on 192.168.168.17 to 0e:20:30:cb:fc:1e via eth1
Jan 5 11:41:18 fogserver in.tftpd[3180]: tftp: client does not accept options

I’m not sure if I am getting the correct DHCP settings (server FOG is using) but below are the settings in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf:

# DHCP Server Configuration file\n#see /usr/share/doc/dhcp*/dhcpd.conf.sample
# This file was created by FOG
#Definition of PXE-specific options
# Code 1: Multicast IP Address of bootfile
# Code 2: UDP Port that client should monitor for MTFTP Responses
# Code 3: UDP Port that MTFTP servers are using to listen for MTFTP requests
# Code 4: Number of seconds a client must listen for activity before trying
#         to start a new MTFTP transfer
# Code 5: Number of seconds a client must listen before trying to restart
#         a MTFTP transfer
option space PXE;
option PXE.mtftp-ip code 1 = ip-address;
option PXE.mtftp-cport code 2 = unsigned integer 16;
option PXE.mtftp-sport code 3 = unsigned integer 16;
option PXE.mtftp-tmout code 4 = unsigned integer 8;
option PXE.mtftp-delay code 5 = unsigned integer 8;
option arch code 93 = unsigned integer 16;
use-host-decl-names on;
ddns-update-style interim;
ignore client-updates;
authoritative;
# Specify subnet of ether device you do NOT want service.
# For systems with two or more ethernet devices.
# subnet 136.165.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {}
subnet 192.168.168.0 netmask 255.255.255.0{
    option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
    range dynamic-bootp 192.168.168.10 192.168.168.254;
    default-lease-time 21600;
    max-lease-time 43200;
    #option routers 0.0.0.0
    option domain-name-servers 192.168.168.1;
    next-server 192.168.168.1;
    class "Legacy" {
        match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00000";
        filename "undionly.kkpxe";
    }
    class "UEFI-32-2" {
        match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00002";
        filename "i386-efi/ipxe.efi";
    }
    class "UEFI-32-1" {
        match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00006";
        filename "i386-efi/ipxe.efi";
    }
    class "UEFI-64-1" {
        match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00007";
        filename "ipxe.efi";
    }
    class "UEFI-64-2" {
        match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00008";
        filename "ipxe.efi";
    }
    class "UEFI-64-3" {
        match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00009";
        filename "ipxe.efi";
    }
    class "SURFACE-PRO-4" {
        match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 32) = "PXEClient:Arch:00007:UNDI:003016";
        filename "ipxe.efi";
    }
    class "Apple-Intel-Netboot" {
        match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 14) = "AAPLBSDPC/i386";
        option dhcp-parameter-request-list 1,3,17,43,60;
        if (option dhcp-message-type = 8) {
            option vendor-class-identifier "AAPLBSDPC";
            if (substring(option vendor-encapsulated-options, 0, 3) = 01:01:01) {
                # BSDP List
                option vendor-encapsulated-options 01:01:01:04:02:80:00:07:04:81:00:05:2a:09:0D:81:00:05:2a:08:69:50:58:45:2d:46:4f:47;
                filename "ipxe.efi";
            }
        }
    }
}
(END)

Is there something I’m missing since UEFI is not booting but legacy does?

Is it FOG server (including DHCP) or client settings which resulted in error “tftp: client does not accept options?”

Looking for guidance.

Thanks!