Posts made by Dave Wolf

That’s ok, I was just wondering if the issue was in the NIC firmware having a problem loading the png file. Is there an easy way for me to pretty up the menu to a simple white text on black background? I haven’t worked with php before, but thought I’d ask before researching the ‘colour’ and ‘cpair’ parameters of the print statements.

Hi Tom,

Do you think if I upgrade the NIC firmware in these servers, it would work without commenting out the line?

Thanks,
Dave.

Hi Tom,

Well, that worked and the image is being uploaded as I type. The menu looks kinda funky, but that’s a minor issue as long as it uploads/downloads properly. Thanks for your help!

Cheers,
Dave.

Hi Tom,

Here’s the screen cap of the issue and the corresponding ipxe.org web page referenced. Please let me know if you need any additional info, and I appreciate your time in helping me out!

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[ATTACH]1236[/ATTACH]

Cheers,
Dave.

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Hi Tom,

I’ll try to get a shot with my cell phone since it’s during the boot process. Thanks!

Cheers,
Dave.

Hi all,

I’m having an issue booting with PXe on our R200 servers; it boots the ipxe image and fails with an I/O error. I’m guessing it is similar to this issue reported with an earlier version of FOG (mentioned in the wiki):

[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Dell_PowerEdge_R200[/url]

However, the version of FOG I’m using (1.2.0 on Debian 7.6) doesn’t have the same directory structure or an init.gz that I can find. Any ideas on how I can get these systems to boot? We have FOG imaging working with other Dell Servers, HP Servers, and a variety of workstations, but these R200’s are bit older.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide!

Cheers,
Dave.

JC,

Thanks for sharing this information! We were looking for an easy way to automate up/downloads of images that we use for automated testing and your solution was a great start for us. I have very little Python experience, but was able to make the modifications needed to get your example working with FOG 1.1.2. Many thanks for your work!

Cheers,
Dave.

Also, I am a volunteer network admin for a Catholic school in Crystal Lake, Illinois. My kids are long gone, but I still help out even though I relocated to Atlanta, Georgia a couple of years ago. We had been using Ghost 15 (couldn’t afford the network version of Ghost) and a few USB drives to image the 50 or so computers we have. FOG will be a GREAT timesaver for the local technology manager I work with there! Many thanks for your efforts in producing this well done product!

Thanks again,
Dave.

I figured out the issue, and I’m here to report I’m an idiot.

The original Windows Server 2012 installation had a 100GB system partition.

When I created the test VM, I used the default of 60GB for a system partition. My bad. The clues were there (Single Disk - Not resizable), I just missed them. If I could make a request: If the target partition is smaller than the source, can an error be sent to the screen, or logged to a file somewhere? It may have reported an error to the screen, but then it scrolls by very fast before rebooting. I’d like to thank both of you for your time in helping me with this issue! It looks like FOG will work very well for us in replacing Ghost.

I’ve got the image set to “Windows 8” and it’s a Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not resizable). I chose Windows 8 because the disk structure for the Windows Server 2012 installation is almost exactly the same as the Windows 8 installation I successfully imaged earlier today. Thanks!

I have the same issue after re-uploading and then downloading. During the download, I see a quick “Database update successful” (I think it says that) message before the system quickly reboots (without downloading the image).

Will be offline for a bit and back online later. Thanks very much for your help!

I can’t copy the BCD file; it’s in use by the system. I might be able to open the vmd file in another VM and copy it over.

[EMAIL]root@FOGServer:/opt/fog/log[/EMAIL]# gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.8
Partition table scan:
MBR: MBR only
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: not present

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Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format
in memory.

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Disk /dev/sda: 104857600 sectors, 50.0 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 8AE43B70-6271-4FEE-A07F-2F6D87148AC6
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 104857566
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 6077 sectors (3.0 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 102762495 49.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
5 102764544 104855551 1021.0 MiB 8200 Linux swap
[EMAIL]root@FOGServer:/opt/fog/log[/EMAIL]# ^C

Got it…how shall I send it to you?

Sysprep completed, there is no BCD file on the disk that I can see.

Running sysprep with the generalize and quit options. As to the GPT partition structure; can I see that in the Disk Management application? I only see two simple volumes on a basic disc, the 350MB NTFS one and the 100GB NTFS one.

I’ll have to download it; it’s not installed on this server. I’ll get back to you; thanks!

Hmmm, the original Windows Server 2012 system boots fine; the upload seemed to work fine, it’s the download of the image that never seems to start (I never seem the image loading), it quickly finishes (I can’t see an error flash by) and reboots, but no image has been downloaded. Is that BCD file required to do the download? I have one Windows 7 system and I can see the BCD file in the \boot directory; however the Windows 8 system I imaged up/down successfully has no \boot directory or BCD file, nor does the Windows 2012 system. The Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 systems look very similar, but no BCD file on either. Any other things I should look for? Thanks for the help!

Forgot a couple of answers to your questions: There isn’t a recovery partition, I initially created this Server 2012 installation by doing a clean install into a new VM (like I did with the Windows 8 system). I’m not sure what the BCD file is; is that the image? BCD to this old programmer means Binary Coded Decimal.