[quote=“astrouga, post: 4883, member: 907”]I’ve commited myself to making a 3.4.5 kernel tomorrow, so I’ll post a note when I’ve got something working.

astrouga[/quote]
Any luck with a 3.4.5 Kernel?

My custom kernel did not work with the dx7500’s and I was really hoping to get FOG working in my environment. I love GNU/Linux and open source, but my boss set a timeline for me to get this functional. My time is running out. Luckily, he is out of the office today but he has mentioned that I need to move on to plan B which is a trial of the Dell Kace K2000. The community here is awesome and I’m thankful for the time you guys have taken to post to my thread. I may revisit this option in the future, but for now, alas! I was not able to win this battle. Sorry gents…

Ok. I ended up answering my own question as I delved more into creating a custom kernel. I followed the guide exactly and removed all network drivers except the Intel drivers. We’ll see what happens soon.

Some more interesting information:
I’m able to do all the advanced deployments in task management on the dx 7500 systems.
When I check FOG compatibility it says it is [OK]
I’ve tried uploading an image of ubuntu and it completes in a matter of milliseconds and says that it has completed successfully, however, when i try and download the image it fails.

I just realized I posted in the wrong section. I hope I don’t get any lashings. Sorry everyone.

[quote=“astrouga, post: 4883, member: 907”]I’ve commited myself to making a 3.4.5 kernel tomorrow, so I’ll post a note when I’ve got something working.

astrouga[/quote]

Thanks a lot for all of your help. I went ahead and installed 10.4 LTS on one of many hp dx7500 I have to see what module it uses for the network adapter. I ran the following command in terminal: lshw -C networking

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82567V-2 Gigabit Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 19
bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
logical name: eth0
version: 00
serial: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
size: 1GB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=1.0.2-k2 duplex=full firmware=1.8-5 ip=192.168.x.x latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1GB/s
resources: irq:26 memory:feac0000-feadffff memory:feafe000-feafefff ioport:d000(size=32)

I haven’t tried creating the custom kernel at this point. I have remastersys loaded on my system. Should I do a backup of the system or should a backup of the current fog kernel be sufficient?

[quote=“astrouga, post: 4866, member: 907”]Hmm…not familiar with that error. Also, I’m not familiar with the HP system you are working on.
Did you run defrag and run chkdsk a few times on the drive before you tried to image it?
Anything unusual about the disk? How is the drive configured in the BIOS?
Also, what are those partitions like?

You mentioned that .26 supposedly worked. Have you tried using an older kernel with host?

astrouga[/quote]
I’ve been able to upload images from two other computers and I’m 99.9% sure it has to do with the nic drivers and the kernel. Is there a way I can include certain nic drivers? Do I have to create a custom kernel? Is there such a thing as a definitive guide to that process?

I was thinking I could install ubuntu on one of the hp dx7500 and take a look at the kernel headers. Any ideas?

The image has been defragged and has had chkdsk run on it. I was not aware that I had to run chkdsk multiple times. I have gone through the whole process in my virtual environment and have not had any problems. I’ve gone through the same exact steps in each case for preparing an image.

The drive in BIOS is configured to use IDE and the drive was wiped with Active Killdisk and Windows was installed from disk like normal. It has the 100mb partition and then the partition for the operating system. There doesn’t seem to be anything unusual about the disk.

I did run a much much older kernel and received a different error about the drive not being able to mount the NFS drive. I’ve went ahead and started reinstalling ubuntu 10.4 and am going to go through the initial setup to make sure everything is correct. I did create a password for mySQL without realizing that I wasn’t supposed to. I’m going to go back and do it without a password and see what happens.

[quote=“astrouga, post: 4858, member: 907”]I’d stick with “Multiple Partition.”

To try the custom kernel, you want to save the bzImage34 file to /tftpboot/fog/kernel. Make sure the perms are like the bzImage file that is there already. Now, in the fog web interface, go to:

“Host Management” -->“List all hosts” --> click on the host you are trying to image --> find the “Host kernel” option.

You’ll need to specify the custom kernel here. If your custom kernel is named “bzImage34”, then you’d enter:

“/fog/kernel/bzImage34”

in the text box and update it. Then you can try pulling an image.

Again, let us know if you need more help.

–astrouga[/quote]

I let the “please wait…” screen sit there a moment and the following error appears:

INFO: task partImage:241 blocked for more than 120 seconds
“echo 0 > proc/sys/kernel/hun_task_timeout_secs” disables this message

The custom kernel did not correct the problem. The interesting thing is the text became a lot smaller, but I still have the “Please wait…” screen.

I had the browser cached and didn’t see your reply. I will try that and let you know! Thanks a lot!

[quote=“joshua, post: 4851, member: 146”]I have run into several issues when trying to image server hardware. Give the Kernel that Astrouga has supplied a try and see if that will succeed. I have a Kernel I compiled that you can try next if this one fails. However, mine is compiled to work with Dell server hardware. (but still worth a try). Let us know how it goes, you can and will get this working… it just takes time and patience.

Also, Thanks astrouga, I have saved your kernel for future troubleshooting of my own.[/quote]

I am not trying to image server hardware. My fog server is installed on the proliant. I am trying to image a hp dx7500 desktop. Sorry for the confusion.