Hey there,
we are using our Fog Server since a long time.

Now with Windows 11 24H2 we experiencing some strange issue.

after getting the image to the computer our postdownloadscripts start working, mounting the ntfs partition where windows resides and copying the drivers to a specific location.

We have noticed, that with a new golden master (with audit mode) the mount of the ntfs partition isnt working anymore the right way. We noticed that as we are checking some specific files in the windows folder as it is x86 or x64 architecture. In debug mode we had trouble to manually mount the partition with the ntfs-3g drivers. So we cannot check or copy anymore the drivers into the partition.

Bitlocker is disabled in the golden master as with oobe it cannot seal with it activated. So this cannot be the problem.
Maybe Windows did something to the NTFS Partitions in their new Windows 11 ISO ?

I also checked if the new filesystem (reFS) is active but we have a classic NTFS partition.

Anyone has the same problems ? Or does anyone have a solution for it ? New NTFS-3G drivers for the PXE or something like that ?

Florian

@Tom-Elliott This would be just one use case. Yes we want to use the osID for several other things too. For example we have some really exotic SLES installations that we want to treat seperately to normal linux distributions. So we just dont want to go the hacky way, mounting the os partitions and searching for special files so we can identify its a sles installation…

For the Windows 11 thingie:
We have very custom postdownload scripts that rely on the hardwarename/osID/ARCH/ stuff so adding own osID’s would make it much easier for us to differ between the Operating systems and unattended files.

As my question rises in the head.
Is it somehow possible to add my own operating systems for the imaging tasks?
Background:
We are using fog to deploy customer basic images and downloading specific drivers for every hardware we have and specific preinstall oobe’s for every operating system. So we need to add win11 to the operating system types under images.
Is this anyhow possible?

Hi,
iam following the project now already for a long time but i have reached a point were i need some support.
We have a new series of Lenovo “ThinkBook 15 G2 ITL” series over here. The PXE starts and downloads its ipxe file but on trying to configure the hardware it fails with the message:

No configuration method succeeds

With adding a Lenovo port replicator with its own Network card it is working. But after the image i get the error from windows, that we have a “Inaccessable Boot device”. So i think the first to start here is making the network card working.