Posts made by Fog_Rookie

That does fix my problems, sorry it took me so long to respond with positive results. I only use fog once a semester, so sorry for the delay.

SITD,

I could tell we had a language barrier.
From what you have stated the apache web server portion of your fog server is working fine.
I am going to share a document with you that I created doing Fog builds.
[url]https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=419873F43A535389!3025&authkey=!ANdUmaAeiDiSFk8&ithint=file%2C.docx[/url] It takes you step by step through a fog build.
I am not sure with English not being your primary language if it will help at all.
Keep us posted and we will keep doing our best to help you get this project done.

When you said this in your original post, “I can reach the management-page of the fog-server from every device.”
I took that as you could reach your fog management page from your laptops.
It is somewhat difficult to help you with the limited information we have to work with. So sorry if we are fishing for more information in order to help you.
[SIZE=3]If your fog server is up and running and setup properly[/SIZE][SIZE=2][SIZE=3], you should be able to boot the notebooks to the short 3 second menu. If you can not get this PXE boot screen, then we need more data from you about your network and your fog server. I am about to head into work so I will check back on this post when I get near my fog server. Can you post the IP address information from your fog server and the notebooks you are trying to PXE boot for me?[/SIZE][IMG]http://fogproject.org/forum/attachments/fog-main-menu-png.62/[/IMG][/SIZE]

SITD,
can you post a screenshot of the Host Management page of one of your laptops that you are attempting to PXE boot from?
It should contain information like Host Name:, MAC address:, Host Image, and the Host OS.

X23 I am having the same problem with some newer hardware, Dell Optiplex 9010’s. I have my computer labs all torn apart over the summer, so I haven’t been able to try it on my older Dells. I will not be able to try anything until August sometime. I am using fog 0.32, running on a Ubuntu 12.04.2 machine.
The guy who did my job before I got here had issues with WOL so he stuck with version 0.29, and Ubuntu 10.04.

can you catch the computer during boot up when the dell logo appears, and press F12 and get the computer to boot from the NIC card? if you don’t get the option to boot from the NIC card it isn’t enabled in the BIOS settings.

I just had this same problem with some brand new Dells. There is also a deep sleep mode in some Dell BIOS that needs to be turned off. Without this disabled, the NIC card isn’t even powered on to look for WOL packets.

I have discovered the problem. I had all the BIOS settings correct for wake on LAN to work, but there is a deep sleep setting in Power management in BIOS that needs to be disabled. With this feature enabled your NIC card is not active and will not see any WOL signals.

Although, when i go to the advanced menu and just issue the Wake command. The computer will wake up and go through the FOG PXE boot menu, but doesn’t boot from the SSD that these machines have. Could this be a kernel issue?

We received 19 new Optiplex 9010’s last semester. I can’t seem to get Wake On LAN to work for these units. They are using the integrated Intel 82579LM Ethernet adapter. I ran into the same issues with some optiplex 960’s but making them boot from the NIC first seemed to get me through this issue.

If anyone has some insight on this or needs a little more info on this please let me know.

Falko,
I am running into this same issue with my fog server. It seems at right around 20% my multicast speed has declined from 500Mb/min to less than 100Mb/min. I am also running Ubuntu 12.04, and would like to see if I can make it work without rolling back to 10.04.

I am somewhat unfamiliar with this part of your post “Using Webadmin, I logged into the mysql section created a new user (fogadmin) and password, giving this account full permission. I then edited the MYSQL info in /var/www/fog/commons/config.php + /opt/fog/service/etc/config.php. to match.”

If you can spare the time, could you elaborate a bit more about this process?

Thanks, in advance

[quote=“Darrell Lanson, post: 4322, member: 1392”]I know that because of FOG I am able to finally take a summer vacation for the first time in 8 years I can image all our computers in about a 2 week period or less if I want compared to taking almost the whole 2 months before.[/quote]
Darrel.
About how many computers are you imaging?
This would be great information to add to my presentation I will be giving, as long as you don’t mind me quoting this statement.

Update:
The dual arguments in the settings page of the Web UI seems to work just fine. I just uploaded a Image from one of my new to my Lab computers with a “nomodeset” and a “reboot=bios” arguments set on my [FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333]FOG_KERNEL_ARGS location of fog settings. [/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333]Now I have 2 cron jobs set for later today, that I will come back and check on later.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[quote=“afmrick, post: 8000, member: 417”]I believe it’s space separated[/quote]

OK I will try that out, I need to image a machine this week.

Went back to work to a new batch of recycled computers, setting them up has become a higher priotity. But when I am Imaging computers, I am not requesting a shutdown as this allows fog services to be able to rename my computers. Will be taking an image in the next week or so.
Anyone know if I can add more than 1 argument to the [B]FOG_KERNEL_ARGS [/B]by seperating with commas? (arg1, arg2)

I have had some other issues arise with my FOG server, degraded hard drive in my RAID array, so I haven’t had a chance to test this out yet. I am taking a 2 week break from work, and will test more when I get back.

You got your HP8100 to upload and image?

Good luck. If I helped in any way shape or form please hit the like button

try restarting the tftp again using that ‘sudo /etc/init.d/atftpd restart’ command, since you reset the password back. I am about to call it a night here. Hope i have helped at least a little bit.

it only took it 2 seconds to fail there. How big is the hard drive on the machine you are trying to push this image to?
I see its a 297.99 GB partition it is trying to restore. And the only time I have seen FOG fail this quick was when I was trying to push an 80 GB image onto a 40 GB hard drive.

About your kernel issues, I am not sure why you cannot download the kernel you wanted using the fog GUI interface. If you can download it from source forge, the kernel lives in the /tftpboot/fog/kernel directory. the default kernel is bzImage, rename that to bzImageold. rename your new kernel bzImage and move it to that directory and that may or may not help with your crash on image deploy.

I do my ubuntu install, then do all my updates and upgrade, then I set my static IP address. From there I make sure I still have an internet connection and go get the fog_x.xx.tar.gz file. From there I create my install directory just like the user guide says to, then unzip and install