Posts made by CmdrLucKY

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.

Kyley, If you have any success with this, I’d like to know. I’m currently trying to create an all inclusive kitchen sink kernel for a multiple hardware environment (mostly Dell 755’s - 990’s)

[quote=“astrouga, post: 3627, member: 907”]I just stopped and started tfpd-hpa:
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sudo stop tftpd-hpa
sudo start tftpd-hpa
[/code][/quote]
I did the same, …actually aliased the command to “restart tftpd-hpd”

Phenomenal work! Your work and effort is GREATLY appreciated. I am a diehard fan!

Is it possible to add an entry into the PXE menu or modify the existing host registration so that there is also an option to upload an image directly from that host?

Preferably an option to name the image, and initialize an upload tast directly from PXE.

I’ve look for a bit with no success, perhaps someone is attempting the same?
Thank you in advance!