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@george1421 secure boot is disabled (red bar with the lock unlocked at the top)

@george1421 I updated the firmware just yesterday which is what allowed me to boot from pxe. Before it wouldn’t even register that the surface adapter was bootable.

Yes I have, all of those links are purple because I have gone to them at some point.

Hey All,

I have looked on countless posts about these Surface Pro’s and FOG and everyone else seems to be able to get these working except for me. I keep getting stuck on the “init.xz…” and it just freezes. As stated in my title, I have FOG 1.5.4- 6078. I have the newest kernels that are available (4.18.3) and have tried certain ones from the forums that have pushed me further, but still won’t complete. I have tried using the ipxe7156.efi and that doesn’t work either.

I am using the Microsoft Surface Pro dongle version 1821 and from what I read, people have not been having good luck with it. I have added the host manually, added the “host kernel arguments” of “has_usb_nic=1”.

I guess I am not sure what else to try. I am getting quite a few of these that are coming in and I really need a solution so that I don’t have to do all of the imaging by hand.

Thanks!

@george1421 That is sent to you. Let me know what you find.

Thanks,

@george1421 I think we did have our wires crossed :) I will go ahead and set this up right now. Since I won’t be good at reading it correctly, where could I send it?

@george1421 and I should say…it isn’t impossible, but it wouldn’t be very fun to setup I guess

@george1421 That is unfortunately not possible. The way our network is setup, this school is one of the many that we take care. We have 2 routers in the fold and one is a virtualized pfsense that has this “servers (fog being one of them) vlan” that is routed from their firewall to us. The other router is sitting right here in the next room where I am. This router points to the other to see that “server vlan”.

I know this sounds confusing, but it is only a virtualized VLAN we use for VSphere as this FOG server is Virtual.

@george1421 No they are not, they are on different subnets, but the other schools are as well and they don’t have this issue