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?

@sebastian-roth The mac, the image is deployed then it boots to the mac OS login screen, it displays the only account on mac OS when the image was captured. But it doesn’t accept the password. It tells me if I can not log in - reboot into Recovery. Recovery doesn’t allow me to make any changes because there isn’t an Administrator account associated with the installed OS (Not to be confused with activation lock) The image was captured from the same mac it was deployed to.

I would be happy to provide pics but to do that I would have to duplicate the problem which means the mac will be down.

Apparently this is a thing with T2 macs when imaging. The admin account gets stripped of its admin rights amongst other things. A quick search brought me here

Unfortunately deleting ‘.AppleSetupDone‘ and rebooting did not restart the set up. It just brought me back to the login screen which displayed my admin account (at least it was an admin account when I captured the image) but wouldn’t accept the password.

@george1421 Oh that is right. I forgot about putting the T2 kernel on the new FOG server. Shoot. Where do I get the T2 Kernel again and does it go on the FOS stick or the FOG server?

Sometimes deploying an image works, like if it is the same mac and it is the same install the image was captured from but if I wipe the drive and deploy the image I get the dreaded No Administrator account found. What is the trick? Definitely not a FOG issue but thought someone here might now.

I don’t like these newer macs at ALL. The T2 chip is foolish.

Hello,

I’m not sure when this started. Some time after going from .204 to .207?

When I click on a specific host to set parameters the page displayed is strange.

It only happens with this one host. I’m thinking I should delete the host and re-register it?

It looks like this

https://imgur.com/a/0eEF0xD

Something that may be relevant. Next to this host, there is a gear icon, when I hover over it, a small window comes up that say FOS. It is a mac that uses a FOS USB boot stick. This is definitely something new though, it was not like this before.

https://imgur.com/B2X1o1k.jpg

@kibade

My memory I really bad but IIRC I ended up having to upgrade to Ubuntu I was on 20.04 at the time

@george1421 Not much but… I did a little testing at home. 4 different machines, HP Laptop hackintoshed (all drives, non resizable, Other OS) (one SSD NTFS the other APFS), 2 gaming PCs (win 10 single drive all partitions resizable), A 2018 mac mini all boot security turned off.

And… and !!! I finally migrated, well actually, I made a new FOG server from scratch using only the ltsc.conf from the previous FOG server . I installed Ubuntu Server 22.04.1 fresh in Virtual Station on a NAS, (QNAP TS-451+), latest dev branch with the new inits built in, and was able to capture and deploy from/to 4 home computers no problem. I wish I still had older images and more things to test with.

I love this NAS especially since it was given to me. I dropped in 16GB of RAM (from 2) and got cray stupid -configuring all the drives in a RAID 0 stripe, hey I live on the edge , I can’t believe this thing is running a couple VMs no problem on that Celeron CPU.