Posts made by danielbm

Maybe there’s a solution to do a backup & deployment without touching the MBR of the computer (the images are saved into .img files for each partition and one .mbr file).

Yes it’s a manufactured installation, with multiple partitions (Win7 OS, Lenovo Recovery Manager and another system partition)

I’ve find a solution on this post :
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/3695/using-custom-mbr-for-lenovo-clients

I will try immediately, but I’d like to find a solution to not have to physically intervene on the machine I want to upload.

what is it for ?

What’s the mainfunction of FogClient ? Is it truly necessary to intall it before uploading ?

I don’t know how but it worked last night. I’ve used :

• Multiple Partitions, Single Disk
• Fog Client
• Sysprep (audit mode)
• Fogprep

And this morning without Sysprem it didn’t work… I really understand nothing

Thanks !
I’m gonna try without them

Another question : do I have to use Sysprep or Fogprep before doing the upload ?

@Wayne-Workman AHCI so.

@Wayne-Workman I’ve tried all combinations with UEFI / Legacy and Exit / Sanboot but I haven’t tried Grub

I’ve been able to recover a missed deployment by doing a fixboot and fixmbr with a Windows DVD. So the deployment is not a full failure but it’s not a real solution. If I have to do the same operations on 30 computers… that will be very funny !

@Tom-Elliott yes it has

I’ve tried both of your ideas but it didn’t work

@Wayne-Workman thanks very much for helping, I will try immediately !

Hi everyone,

After doing an upload of my computer on my fog server without any problem, I’ve tried a deployment on this same computer. When I reboot (not with PXE) nothing’s really happening. I have a black screen with a very small white cursor blinking in the bottom left corner of the screen.

I’ve disabled UEFI and I use Legacy Only. I’ve tried debug upload without succes… I’ve also tried single partition & multiple partition images. I had the same problem before when booting with PXE and selecting “Boot from Hard Disk” (same black screen) but I resolved this one with another post. I’ve seen that there’s a lot of people who have many problems with PCs from Lenovo.

Am I the only one in this case ? Does anyone know a solution ?

PC config : LENOVO 73 SFF, i54460S, 4G RAM, 500G, GMA.HD, DVD-RW, W7 PRO 64bits
Ubuntu version : 14.04
Fog version : 1.2.0