I personally have never gotten the client installer to pick up hosts. I always have to do a full inventory to get it to work.

[quote=“BryceZ, post: 995, member: 2”]What happens when you try to register them from the boot menu?[/quote]

It does not work unless I do a full host registration.

I am trying to use chain loading to bypass the fog splash screen and I’m able to get that to work. However if I do that I cannot fully register hosts with fog. I have tried using the fog client application to register them, but they do not show up in the Host Management on fog. Also adding them manually does the same thing.

Timeout is set to 30. I found out the chain loading completely bypasses everything and goes straight to the hard drive. Which would be fine If I could register a host manually or with the client. For some reason it does not work. I’m opening another thread for that problem.

Could you tell me where you placed the lines below in the default file. I did this and it just boots to hdd is that the point? is the splash screen supposed to show up at all?

[COLOR=#000000] DEFAULT fog.next
LABEL fog.next
kernel chain.c32
append hd0[/COLOR]

Has anyone been using Ubuntu 11.10 with fog?

[quote=“IT @ CC, post: 872, member: 252”]is this still an issue, we had this with our Optiplex 790’s & fixed.[/quote]
I am still having the problem, but have not had time to try modifying the chain loading as suggested.

[quote=“BryceZ, post: 804, member: 2”][URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FIX:_Chainloading_alternate_SYSLINUX_to_force_boot_from_first_hard_drive’]Chainloading[/URL] is what you’re looking for.[/quote]

Would you mind walking me through the first few steps of that? How might I upload it to the tftpboot?

I have some new dell Optiplex 990s that I have been deploying and changing it to boot to pxe first. The problem is it finds the fog and then shows the splash screen but then reboots to the splash screen again never booting to the HDD share. I have to click esc to get it to boot the the HDD. This also happens on the new dell latitudes. Has anyone figured this problem out? It is confusing the end users a great deal.

Thank[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 760, member: 18”]copy the images to the /images/ folder on the new fog server. go to the web ui, setup the image definitions pointing to the named files or folders matching what you copied.

The FOG UI/Database keeps information about the images, like what they are named, where they are located, and what operating system they correspond to. The filesystem keeps the actual image files. You have to redefine the images in FOG (webui) to match the data files you stored in /images/[/quote]

Thank you for your post. This will for sure help me transfer the images. I have them backed up the an external hard drive atm. Have not received the new server yet…