Posts made by Charlee593

@Wayne-Workman Thanks for the help, ill let you know after the update.
0_1447707617587_Server 2008 DHCP BIOS and UEFI Co-existence.zip

@Wayne-Workman Thanks for the help. The highlighted section below are the class options, by default it chooses the User Class. If User class is chosen then it will display ‘None’. I try creating a user class with value ‘PXEClient:Arch:00009’ but it gave me a error saying that the value has already define. What else can I try?

@Wayne-Workman Is the packet highlighted below the option 60 you mentions? It looks like it still requesting ‘undionly.kpxe’.

This how the vendor class is defined.

@Wayne-Workman This the value of the ‘PXEClient (UEFI x64)’ vendor class. I also tried ‘PXEClient:Arch:00008’, ‘PXEClient:Arch:00009’, ‘PXEClient:Arch:00006’, it only boot to bios.

@Wayne-Workman I set up a new vender class call ‘PXEClient (UEFI x64)’ and then set the option 66 of ‘PXEClient (UEFI x64)’ class to my fog server ip address (10.10.1.3) and option 67 of ‘PXEClient (UEFI x64)’ class to ‘ipxe.efi’. But it still only able to load BIOS and not UEFI.

We would like to set the DHCP server to handle booting from legacy and UEFI. But we are on an environment where we have to work on Window 2008 R2. According to the documentation, https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/BIOS_and_UEFI_Co-Existence#Option_003_steps_here, Window 2008 use the option 3. Is not clear how to set it up. Do we just add the router ip address onto option 3? How does the DHCP know if the device needs UEFI or legacy boot file?

fog version 5293

@Tom-Elliott The latest Fog can register the host too ( Fog version 5293 ). Thanks for the help

@Tom-Elliott
Capture and Deploy window 8 in UEFI mode works. ( Fog version 5291 )
Now I gonna try the Fog version 5293.

@Wayne-Workman I gonna try capture and deploy an UEFI Window 8 enterprise image.

Fog version 5291

It is able to register the device now. I reinstalled the fog server and run Sebastian’s ‘ipxe.efi’. Running Fog version 5291. Thanks for the help

Thanks for the replies.
@Wayne-Workman said:

Are you purposely trying to UEFI boot? Have you not tried to put the laptops into legacy mode, or turn legacy option ROM support on?

We are purposely trying UEFI boot, the software that we are testing require window 8 or 10 in UEFI mode. We tried legacy mode and it works.

@Sebastian-Roth said:

There is a setting to enable kernel debug output on the console for booting. Please enable KERNEL_DEBUG and crank up the LOGLEVEL in your FOG Settings (FOG Boot Settings) to 7. Hope we see more messages than just this.

We set it to 7 and it show no more than previous message, no difference.

@Tom-Elliott said:

Can you try some of the other .efi files, for example, try the snp.efi, or snponly.efi.
I tried snp.efi, snponly.efi, intel.efi this time, they all stuck on “init.xz”

@Tom-Elliott said:

That said, of course there’s always the possibility that it’s loading is just taking a while. Not everything is instant. So how long are these sitting there?

It sit on the “init.xz” for around 5 minutes then it goes back to the boot manager of the laptop. Then I check the fog manager, no host has been registered.

@Wayne-Workman

• Lenovo ThinkPad T430s and Dell Latitude E6540
• I’m using the Ethernet port from the laptop

I have more available laptops to test on, which one do you have that is working?

@Tom-Elliott
Thanks for fixing the fog menu. Now it loads to the fog menu. But it has trouble registering the device. After selecting the “Quick Registration” option on the fog menu, it stuck on ‘/init.xz’, like the image below.

• Running on: Fog Project version 5283 (pull from github)
• Kept the option 67 to ‘ipxe.efi’ (Also tried snponly.efi and snponly.efi, same result)

@Tom-Elliott Thanks for the super fast reply. I re-setup the fog server earlier today with the one in svn (Revision 4304), I believe it is fog 1.2.0.

I have trouble booting into the fog menu in UEFI mode. It boots into a prompt asking for tftpboot server. After inputing the fog server ip address, it tries to connect the default file, but then it time out and go back to the boot manager.

I set option 67 to ‘ipxe.efi’.
I’m running the lastest fog pull from svn.
Also I tried snp.efi and snponly.efi.

Please can someone tell me what is happening. Thanks