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Yes, I did.

OK.
I created a batch file with the command “echo” in it (like yours, but I’m not on a domain yet so echo seemed more appropriate). I added it to the snapins. I went into Hosts, chose my host, clicked Snapins, and added the echo snapin to the host. I edited the config.ini to force reboots. No luck. When I open fog.log, there is a line that reads, “FOG::TaskReboot No task found for client.” I also tried going to Task Management > List All Hosts > choose host > Single Snapin, but I get an error reading, “Failed to create deploy task. Snapins Are already deployed to this host.” Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for the quick reply.

I haven’t deployed any software yet. The only thing I have installed are some drivers from the DriverPacks website. I’m following along with the tutorial at [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/windows-7-deployment-fog-sad2-driver-tool.380/[/url]. The drivers install and then the system reboots. Then at the next boot, it automatically logs in (configured to in sysprep) and immediately asks for another reboot.

Is there no way for the fog service to check in with the server and see a reboot is requested?

Maybe my searching abilities are failing me, but I cannot figure out how to reboot a client from the server.

I am trying to automate a large deployment which includes installing drivers and joining computers to a domain. The image pushes fine and everything works, but there is one point when the newly imaged client requests a reboot and requires a user to click the button. I would like to avoid pushing “reboot now” on all of my machines. Ideally, I would run a reboot task, but I can’t find one. I have tried creating a reboot batch file and pushing it as a snap-in, but I get an error that reads, “Failed to create deploy task. Snapins Are already deployed to this host.”

So how do I force a bunch of clients to reboot when I want them to? The documentation for “Task Reboot” makes it sound like this will only work when an image is set to be deployed to a machine, so the functionality is built in to the client service, but isn’t really helpful for my situation.

So I did a Normal Wipe on my source system, reinstalled Windows and some software, uploaded it to the same image container, and everything works fine now. I’m not sure what the several systems I was trying to image had wrong with them, but apparently wiping the drive before installing Windows did the trick. Thanks for the help, everybody!

My source computers are Windows 7 using primary partitions only. And I have only used the “Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable) - (2)” image type when creating the images. Any other thoughts, or techniques I can use to troubleshoot where it breaks?

Update to this issue. I just wiped the fog server, installed Fog 1.0.1 on 14.04 and pulled another computer image. Then I pushed it to the next PC and the same thing happened. See attached image. After this happens, the computer reboots. There is no transfer of the image file. So far I have changed everything except the hardware I’m running the Fog server from, which appears to be working fine. Has anyone gotten this to work on v1.0.1?

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I’m running Fog v1.0.1 on Fedora 20 on a physical Dell laptop. I have imaged a Windows 7 physical computer and have it saved with no problems. Multiple Partition Image, Single Disk. When I try to download/push/deploy this image, to the same computer or to a different system, the same thing happens: It goes through the initial steps and gets to “Restoring MBR,” and then reboots. It never switches to the blue status bar screen, it never actually pushes the image. After the reboot the task is no longer active in Fog, and the PC boots to “No operating system found.” Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong?