ah no wonder - Fog was working so well all this while with my other machines and HP8300 is an old machine. ok Thanks Tom, I’ll plan an update then. Consider this case closed :)

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• FOG Version: Running Version 1.3.0-RC-36
• OS: Ubuntu

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Hi there,

My Fog server has been working fine with various Windows machines and MACs , except this one particular HP8300 which I’ve newly reinstalled and configured Window 10 on a 240GB SSD drive internally. So I’m trying to work with HP8300 for the first time with Fog. It registers fine with FOG, but when I try to capture the image, it hangs for some time at " Saving original disk/parts UUIDs" and then much later I get this " error trying to save GPT partition tables and Boot loaders Arg passed /dev/sda …" . I tried doing the whole process twice, reregister - create new image in fog, - but I still end up with the same error. Windows 10 works fine in the HP8300, I’m wondering if its some hardware error or something to do with Windows in that machine ?

Many thanks george1421 . The FOS method worked. I was able to capture the image finally :) Case closed.

@george1421 ok thanks george1421, I’ll try this out.

@Junkhacker I plugged in the ethernet into the Dell laptop via the dock and dock to usb when trying to boot via the usb stick where ipxe is on another usb port, and I’ve changed the dock - unfortunately only one type we have over here - so no surprise it didn’t work either - same dhcp fail message. Any other ideas I can try to pursue ? It feels so close but yet so far…

@george1421 Hi george1421 , yes it is sad :( I was jumping for joy when I saw the initial ipxe message and it didn’t get very far. And no there was no mac address reference. I’m still using the Displaylink dock DA100 - we only have these types to plug into the usb for the Dell pcs. Anyway I will check with my office manager on Monday if she has other types just in case.

@Junkhacker no problem Junkhacker at least there are alternatives

@george1421 Hi george1421. I did the steps in the link , step6 , I checked everything. and now when I stick the usb in the laptop and boot from usb, I now see “ipxe…initialising devices” which is good news! But then I got the “dhcp failed” message and press s to go to ipxe or reboot.

@george1421 Awesome! Thanks george1421. I’m so glad there’s an alternative, I’ll take a look at it and try that out.

Just spoke to the Dell technical support side on the phone. They said this particular Dell XPS 13 does not support PXE network booting at all. :( So it doesn’t matter if the Displaylink dock supports PXE boot or not.