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So the trouble I’ve had with this box is that it falls in the middle of the bios/UEFI game. I’m dealing with Win7 (doesn’t play UEFI) and an i210 NIC (doesn’t seem to play Legacy). Upping to Win10, and booting fully UEFI would be the fix for this last quibble with this box.

@sebastian-roth So I’m not sure what has changed, as I’ve had to focus on other things, but now it works. I didn’t follow the most recent direction, but I’m booting various boxes via pxe successfully. No idea. …

@george1421

I feel like a bit of a dummy. It works now, and I suspect I just needed to run the “chkdsk /f” from prompt instead of what I figure is the less thorough one from disk properties. For completeness I’ve included what didn’t work.

Nice thought, but the thread you note doesn’t hold my solution.
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10824/image-upload-deploy-taking-a-long-time/43
Bit locker is off as evidenced by the encryption control commands.
manage-bde -off
manage-bde -status

“Way 1” from the FOG wiki made no change either.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_Dirty_Bit

I believe command prompt “chkdsk /F” corrected the issue. I had previously just used disk check from disk properties, which doesn’t lock the drive. This was, however, in conjunction with a bios setting dealing with power saving that was causing hangs.

@Sebastian-Roth

lspci -nn showed the drive to be in raid mode

using a tutorial on bcdedit via cmd for safemode boot I was able to change the setting without reinstalling windows

now the machine is imaged

resolved and thankyou

coming back to this with a fresh mind and some new info helped

This server is a fresh ubu 22.04 with fog 1.5.10.41, but as I’m having trouble getting data into fog and it behaving, I’ve removed fog files, dropped sql dbase, and reinstalled fog numerous times.

1. On first install/config import the hosts and images appear, but the storage node info disappeared.

2. I get an unauthorized page when trying to export host and image CSVs.

3. Dropping failed sql dbase import and reinstalling fog brings back storage node info so I try manually entering the host and image info then exporting them for a “clean install,” but trying to export CSV gets an unauthorized page still.

I’ve tried every un/pw combo I can find
UN: root
PW: xxx

Desc.: local user
UN: local_admin
PW: xxx

Desc.: Fog storage nodes
UN: fogstorage
PW: [as found in config gui]

Desc.: TFTP server
UN: fogproject
PW: [as found in config gui]

Desc.: initialiazation
UN: fog
PW: password

Desc.: wiki tip
UN: localhost
PW: [blank]

Desc.: wiki tip
UN: local loopback
PW: [blank]

Desc.: wiki tip
UN: localhost
PW: [local user pw?]

Desc.: wiki tip
UN: local loopback
PW: [local user pw?]

and while I’ve read this
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Migrate_FOG
I’m trying to use the gui.

I’d love to be able to export a CVS from my newly installed server, but … what gives?

@george1421

Tried disabling Spanning tree with no effect.

It turned out to be a bios/UEFI setting “option rom launch policies.” New to me. In my defense, this box’s bios is pretty massive and clumsy to navigate through, but works now!
I feel stupid, but my issue appears resolved! Thank you very much George. I might not have ever stumbled through those screens again if it weren’t for you.

As an aside, the MAC address cloning is a little odd as fog find and tries to get an IP on the wrong NIC first, before it gives up and tries the next NIC.