Posts made by foggystarz

@george1421 I think I follow, I’ll give it a bash and let you know, thank you :).

@george1421 So in theory all I need to do is copy those files from a ubuntu install to the tftp folder on the fog host?

@Sebastian-Roth Yes when I was googling around attempting to figure out the issue I came across the vmlinuz boot a lot but assumed it was part of older distros as couldn’t find any newish posts. I think you’re on to something here too.

@george1421 live mode being the live CD options the ubuntu installer gives you when for instance you burn to CD or mount on a USB and boot it. so basically running it in RAM. Through fog currently that menu where you can ‘try ubuntu’ is not available, I guess some boot param makes it skip straight to ‘install to disk’ mode.

As far as I understand it, netboot is running an OS over the network but the storage isn’t local but the OS is still technically installed somewhere else so not related to to this unless I’ve got that wrong?

You say it should boot to installer mode right away, if this is expected how do we pass an argument to enable the menu where you can ‘try ubuntu’?

I don’t know a lot about this stuff so I’m just using this as a practical end-user and I’ve followed the guides to get this up and running, unfortunately, troubleshooting this albeit small issue is well out of my area of understanding, I don’t know how any of this works under the top layer so I can’t help much but I think other people will run in to the same thing as I have as I’ve not done anything bespoke (I wouldn’t know how to :)). I can however load more VM’s/run some tests/arguments if any more ideas, let me know.

@Sebastian-Roth said in Ubuntu Live Boot Booting to Disk Install Not Live CD:

@foggystarz said in Ubuntu Live Boot Booting to Disk Install Not Live CD:

boots straight to Desktop mode

You meant install mode I suppose?!

Yep install mode

@Sebastian-Roth Didn’t get round to this last night but just tried Ubuntu 18.04 and same problem, tried both suggested boot arguments boot=live and boot=casper, boots straight to Desktop mode, pictures below:

@Sebastian-Roth I’ll do that now bud and report back when tested.

Thanks @Sebastian-Roth but this also boots to desktop install, I think it may be something to do with netboot files from googling, does this perhaps specify a desktop boot only?

Hi, I have followed @george1421’s excellent guide to setup booting a Ubuntu 20.03 image which is working, but for some reason it’s not booting to Live CD. When booting the VM it goes straight to the install on disk procedure. I did google around but most of the links relate to older versions with a different netboot (vmlinux instead of linux), I’ve added the boot=live argument as per below which doesn’t seem to do anything, anyone know the answer to this?

kernel tftp://${fog-ip}/os/ubuntu/live20.04/linux
initrd tftp://${fog-ip}/os/ubuntu/live20.04/initrd.gz
imgargs linux boot=live root=/dev/nfs boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=${fog-ip}:/images/os/ubuntu/live20.04/ locale=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us quiet splash ip=dhcp rw
boot || goto MENU

Many thanks for any help,
Will

Perfect @george1421! I’ll give it a whirl, thank you.

Hi, I would like to add a Ubuntu Live CD to Fog, googling around this doesn’t seem to be that simple. Is there or can someone detail the steps for a newby like myself.

Currently running Fog on a Ubuntu VM with undionly.kpxe as DHCP option.

Thanks for reply @Sebastian-Roth. I’ll create a Win PE recovery image or something like that instead.

Hi there, I’ve taken myself on a crash course journey in to Linux (Ubuntu in this case) and deployments with FOG over the last few days. Normally I’m windows sysadmin but want to expand my skillset so I’ve been running some VM’s and decided FOG would be a great implementation and cool task to wipe and redeploy servers I’ve been messing with.

After following some guide and a lot of restarting I finally managed to get FOG working yesterday in a new Ubuntu VM.
I have tested registering a host, uploading the image and redeploying and all is working fine. The fog set up is on a fresh ubuntu build and fog is standard, apart from having issues with the FTP client whereby I had to change the username/password, then change it back again from the password listed in the fog configuration file (can’t remember where this was located now, still a bit lost with Linux file systems, somewhere in /opt/fog irrc).

Anyway, the problem right now is that I added a CLAMAV task to my win server host and set to run asap. I rebooted the VM’d host and it picks up the task but encounters a problem loading the NFS share and reboots after a minute. I’m not sure if this is because of the password I changed earlier or something else. The username/password in the fog storage is the same as the fog linux user account. I am guessing that the the fact I can upload and deploy images means the user/pass for the /images dir is fine but there is some mismatch somewhere with the /bin/fog.av dir.

Error message is:

Unable to mount location. (/bin/fog.av)
Args Passed:
Reason: mount : mounting 192.168.1.46:/opt/fog/clamav on /opt/fog/clamav failed Permission denied

I would appreciate some help here as I think it’s a neat feature and this problem is probably going to occur with other mounted tasks if I need to use them (disk wipe seems very handy also and WOL).

Kind regards,
Will