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Preamble

A while back @george1421 helped me create a bootable USB stick to allow IPXE bootinig my 2018 mini to FOG (I have all the T2 security features disabled in the mac BIOS no secure boot etc)

It was able to capture images no problem. I ran into problems deploying the captured images (to the same mac they were captured from). I guess it had something to do with the T2 chip. The image would deploy fine but would not boot the OS.

It started to get complicated for me and I decided to suck it up and just use Time Machine. I do not like Time Machine.

IIRC, since then T2 support has been baked into the Linux kernel and…

I just noticed this! Are there any plans to update it?

https://github.com/FOGProject/mac-boot/releases/tag/v0.1.0

Thanks

Hello,

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but is there a way to change the resolution of the ipxe boot menu the clients come to when booting IPXE?

Thank you

@Sebastian-Roth Unfortunately the USB external drive wasn’t see by FOG, I tried the serial number listed in Windows but it backed up an NVMe drive Please disregard

@Sebastian-Roth

That is awesome. I tried using a power-shell command to get the drive serial number.

 Get-PhysicalDisk | FT FriendlyName,AdapterSerialNumber,serialnumber 

Just to confirm, what this command lists as the Adapter Serial Number matches what Crystal Disk Info shows as the NVMe serial numbers as well as the serial number listed on the box the NVMe came in. Just to note, the SSD’s do not have an Adapter serial number

Thanks again for all you help.

@Sebastian-Roth Thank you so much.

Have there been any updates in dealing with dual NVMe drives that are the same size?

@Sebastian-Roth This is going to sound really dumb but I don’t know how to query FOS to figure out how the USB drive will be listed. Like to find out what /dev/???

Hi,

When backing up different drives, I’ve been changing the Host Primary Disk settings to specify the drive. I use the disk size. I have to do this for systems with NVME systems (assuming the nvme drive size is different). Today I need to back up and external USB drive. I wasn’t sure how to get the size of that using the blockdev command.

The scenario is;

Backing up external Wii U drive, an external 1TB SSD using a laptop with 2 internal 250GB SSDs. What steps should I take to get the correct Host Primary Disk settings for backing up the external drive?

Thank you

@Sebastian-Roth Yes. Thanks

@Sebastian-Roth

I can’t wait!

@Sebastian-Roth No, I wasn’t using the 6x kernel. This was using the T2 kernel that was going around a while back.

@george1421

Oooh cool!

@Sebastian-Roth said in What do I rename the T2 bzimage file to for reliable mac OS capture and restores?:

links here so everyone can look up the context.

Thanks
Yes, I needed the USB stick to PXE boot the T2 mac. It worked great and could capture and deploy no problem but…

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/16570/ugh-t2-chip-nightmare-anyone-using-fog-with-t2-macs/

Here are some previous threads where it all started.

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/16482/mac-address-captured-during-registration-is-different-than-actual-mac-address/

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/16468/can-t-get-to-fog-booting-from-usb-boot-uefi-client

The MAC address thing is so weird and I’m kind of afraid to test anything in fear of No Administrator Account found

@Sebastian-Roth

Thanks, I will replace the ones on the FOG server and the USB stick, with them.

Greetings,

With some instructions given from another member of the forum, I was able to create a FOG boot USB for mac OS. However, I ran into problem when deploying captured images. After deploying a captured imaged onto the same mac, I would get an error :Administrator account not found.

Further help revealed this shouldn’t be an issue if the T2 kernel is in place. I have a T2 kernel on the boot USB stick an I would like to know if this is the latest one, what I should rename it to? Should I place it on the FOG server and then specify the host to use that bzimage for the mac host?

Here is where it is currently placed on the USB stick. How and where should it be placed / named on the USB boot device and or FOG server?

Thank you

@sebastian-roth Glad I could help in some way. FOG is awesome you and @george1421 always get any issues I run into sorted with a quickness. After installing the latest as of writing this, 1.5.9.215, the host parameter settings look normal again.

(I originally posted this reply to my own comment accidentally)

@george1421 Yes.

I just started backing up a Windows drive using 1.5.9.215. I saw Partclone 3.20 briefly appear on the screen. For some reason, while it is backing up a partition the version number of Part Clone isn’t listed. Only for a moment between capturing each partition is the version number displayed.

@george1421 Cool. Is the T2 Kernel known to address this specific issue?

@sebastian-roth Thanks I tried another browser without any plugin and I cleared cache. Same issue. The error log shows.

https://pastebin.com/VZQrPF7v

@george1421 What does the T2 kernel do differently than the stock kernel?

@george1421 I boot from a FOS usb stick that pxe boots to the FOG server. So I am thinking put the T2 Kernel on the server and specify that kernel under the “host kernel” setting for the macs, then on the the FOS stick put the t2 kernel as well?