@sebastian-roth After calling Dell support, it seems there was something wrong with the laptop that was being used to test. I re-configured the UEFI to defaults, purged the default config of RAID to AHCI, and have rebuilt my images using the smaller drives on the newer laptops.

I am now able to capture and deploy as expected. Thanks to everyone for your assistance with this! We can consider this thread resolved.

@sebastian-roth After calling Dell support, it seems there was something wrong with the laptop that was being used to test. I re-configured the UEFI to defaults, purged the default config of RAID to AHCI, and have rebuilt my images using the smaller drives on the newer laptops.

I am now able to capture and deploy as expected. Thanks to everyone for your assistance with this! We can consider this thread resolved.

@sebastian-roth Here is the output from my d1.partitions file regarding the image mentioned in the Fog screenshot:

cat d1.partitions
label: gpt
label-id: 1AD8A27B-2892-4B58-9460-570AEA20B851
device: /dev/sda
unit: sectors
first-lba: 34
last-lba: 1000215182
sector-size: 512

/dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size= 204800, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=CCD22F06-7C7D-4383-9965-A85BB0B66131, name=“EFI system partition”, attrs=“GUID:63”
/dev/sda2 : start= 206848, size= 32768, type=E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE, uuid=399B665C-FE87-492E-A245-6080EB049F28, name=“Microsoft reserved partition”, attrs=“GUID:63”
/dev/sda3 : start= 239616, size= 998952902, type=EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7, uuid=CB4B85CB-1D38-4D03-AF1E-D44D1966CAAC, name=“Basic data partition”
/dev/sda4 : start= 999192576, size= 1019904, type=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC, uuid=857DFACC-AE01-4E3A-A64E-99C4F6A788F7, attrs=“RequiredPartition GUID:63”

Thanks again for the reply!

Sorry about the delay in response, I support several satellite locations and wasn’t able to get back to the office hosting Fog until earlier this week.

I’ve solved the PXE boot issue, turned out to be a DHCP server config issue.

However, I’m still unable to deploy images with Fog to the Latitude 5510 models. I’ve done a bit of digging and found that they are arriving with a RAID configuration using one 256GB NVMe drive, and presumably another chunk of soldered 256GB on the motherboard (UEFI only reports a single slot-in drive).

I’m under the impression that the RAID config is causing the Fog imaging to fail. The RAID is set to “On” and is identified as ‘Intel Rapid Restore Technology’ in the UEFI.

Boot Options (F12) “Device Configuration” option sends me to the Intel Rapid Storage Technology RAID utility, which is running Intel RST 17.8.1.4572 RAID Driver. It lists the NVMe drive as a non-RAID physical disk, but the OS and Windows install boot UI shows ~465GB of usable space.

Is it possible that the Fog platform is missing support of some level for the Intel RST RAID Driver and/or Micron 2200S NVMe drive installed in the laptop?

Here is a screenshot of the error I’m seeing when configuring the drive as AHCI:

Here is a screenshot of the error I’m seeing when configuring the drive as RAID (default UEFI option):

Here is the NVMe drive as listed in the Intel RAID utility:

Thank you very much for your help.

@george1421 Correct, the older model is also UEFI. I believe the older model is from ~2018, but it’s currently at another office, so I will have to get back to you on the exact model

@george1421 I can use an older model Dell Latitude and PXE booting and image capture/deploy works perfectly fine.

The Fog server is on the same IP subnet as the 5510

I’m attempting to image a new Dell Latitude 5510 with Fog. The PXE boot process starts, the media is recognized, and the Fog PXE boot process never begins. It skips straight through to booting from the HDD.

This is occurring regardless of UEFI settings selected. I attempted toggling the following UEFI settings:
-Fastboot (from Minimal/default to Thorough)
-Secure Boot mode from Deployed to Audit mode
-Secure Boot completely disabled
-MAC address passthrough - from System Unique MAC to Integrated NIC 1 MAC

I have successfully imaged other/older Dell Latitude models, but have run into this issue with the 5510’s I’ve attempted to image consistently.

I noticed when looking through the UEFI that the PXE boot file being called for during the process is bootx64.efi, which does not exist by default in the TFTP directory on the Fog server. Could this be part of my issue?

Fog server - v1.5.9 stable, bzImage v5.6.18, bzImage32 v4.19.145
Running on CentOS 7.9.2009 (Core)