This is an interesting situation no doubt…
An institution I work at has employed several hundred Dell FX170 Thin Clients (running Windows WES) which I have previously successfully uploaded and deployed. We recently upgraded the thin clients to a newer version of WES (2.0, the previous being 1.5) - The issue lies in the boot loader. After the update I see the following:

Booting from local disk…
PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM.
GRUB Loading stage2…

This is where it hangs indefinitely. I’m thinking perhaps my line of attack should be to deploy to a secondary spare drive in a desktop and remove the [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=#000000]/boot/grub/[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=#000000]menu.lst [/COLOR][/FONT] as I’ve seen on other forums with general GRUB issues.
I’m uploading & deploying as Multiple Partition Single Disk btw.
[SIZE=2]I guess my question is why aren’t FOG and grub playing along? RAW [/SIZE]doesn’t[SIZE=2] give me much success either. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Any enlightenment the community can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all[/SIZE]

I don’t know if this is any help to you now, but someone else may benefit:
I was getting GRUB errors with DelFX710 thin clients running Windows 7 WES (window Embedded). These thins had the most recent updates applied and would be unbootable. I found some fresh out of the box without the updates (same thin client hardware). Perfect images no problem. The defining difference (I think) is that the non-updated ones used GRUB 1.5. The new ones GRUB 2.

For what its worth.
cheers

Any success with this? I’m attempting VDI imaging and deployment for a Dell thin client solution.
Would Windows embedded be consider Windows(other)?

@Phil,
Even easier than creating a new kernel, in the VirtualBox settings, create an IDE HDD.
Settings > Storage > ‘right click’ IDE Controller > Add HardDisk
Fog should recognize and deploy to this drive just fine for you… also make sure network settings are ‘bridged’

@Phillip
Hey Phil had a similar issue. The VirtualBox disks are SCSI devices and FOG is setup for IDE by default (I believe) - check into creating a new kernel editing the existing one to conform with SCSI support.

The Saga Continues :)…
I tried to open the xx.img.000 Files with Ubuntu’s default file extractor (file roller). Within it I see ‘xx.img’. From there it “An error occurred while extracting files” whenever I try to open, manipulate, etc…

Any help or ideas would be appreciated thanks guys!

[quote=“Lee Smith, post: 5518, member: 384”]if you open the img like i tried doing in linux, it uses some kind of extractor, I know you can extract something out of there but I havn’t gone as far as looking into it, it can be extracted with linux though

hope this helps

Lee[/quote]
@Lee
Hey thanks Lee! Sounds silly but I’ve never used FOG in a GUI environment (with the exception of the web dash, of course.)
Anyone know if it’s possible to do all this from the command line possibly a Tarball extract?

Is there away to view data within the .img file or pull out data?

I had a similar issue, in a panic I attempted several fixes one them worked, I’ll have to go back and duplicate the problem so I can report back. Here were my steps:

Firstly edited the config.php in /var/www/fog/commons and reset the tftp password there and in the web gui interface

Reset the values manually in the aforementioned config file for STORAGE_DATADIR & STORAGE_DATADIR_UPLOAD
checked the values matching in the web gui as well.

next umount and re-mounted my storage directly to my default /images on my server (after confirming it worked made it permanent in /etc/fstab).

checked ‘/etc/exports’ file to see that it matched all my previous configs.
sudo exportfs -a (if all is well).

Then I ‘touch’-ed ‘/images’ and ‘/images/dev’ to create .mntcheck

For testing purposes I chmod -R 777 the whole mount point. Worked

I’ll try to go back and pin point which part did the trick but I hope this helped.

I too am really interested in a VM tutorial, one to deploy existing Images into on a temporary basis.
Essentially, I’m administering fog for a community college campus that needs some way to open the image (temporarily) and pull a few files. I’ve been at a standstill on this.