I set up one of the desktops alone with monitor, keyboard, and mouse all hooked up. Updated the kernel, which I think is why the “[I]checking in”[/I] error occurred. Fog worked fine.
However, as a test I pulled out the VGA cable and plugged it back in during an image deployment, and [I]“irq#16: will be disabled” [/I](or something along those lines) message popped up in the FOG screen. So, even though I don’t understand how or why, it appears that this error is, in my case at least, related to monitor connections or the video cards. It’s possible that if the output changes in some way, FOG isn’t sure how to handle it.
For assurance’s sake, we will just have our desktops fully hooked up from now on. Strange FOG would barf over something so trivial, but who knows.
Thanks for your help Tom!