Posts made by geekyjm

@george1421 Thanks for the info.

@jj-fullmer yes, thank you. I tried undionly.kpxe and it worked. But now the problem is I need to keep changing the boot image depending on if bios or UEFI.

The PXE boot just blinks a cursor after tftp.

We are using Virtualbox to PXE boot a new image to our fog server so we can capture the image. The PXE boot hangs after tftp://10.29.8.42/snponly.efi… Ok. It doesn’t display an error, just a blinking cursor. Any ideas?

@jj-fullmer It looks like the fog.postdownload script calls the fog.custominstall script which intern calls the fog updateunattend. My fog knowledge is very basic. I can include the scripts if it helps.

Jim P.

@george1421 I check my old server and there is no /opt/fog/ssl directory. When it was installed way back when no SSL cert was used. The site is only accessible from http://fog.

Jim P.

@george1421 Thanks, for your assistance. Question where is the certificate located? If I can find it I can then copy it to the new server. But is the certificate based on the server name? When creating the new server I named it something other than the original.

Jim P.

Hi, I migrated my fog server to a new system and during the process I transferred the postdownload script from the old versioned system the the newer one. I’m running into some issue sysprep running and connecting the client to the domain after the download. Is there a new postdownload script I could download and try?

Regards,

Jim P.

@george1421 Nevermind, I put a 067 record in the DHCP options and PXE boot worked. Thanks for your help.

Jim P.

@george1421 How do I tell if the PXE server is running on the Fog server?

@george1421 Ok thanks. I did a tcpdump and I will try to view it in Wire shark.

@george1421 I can’t seem to get to this link. https://forums.fogproject.org/post/149423

@george1421 I would be glad to grab a pcap of the pxe booting process. Not sure how to do it though.

When I have the old fog server connected the target desktop gets a IP within a few seconds and displays it on the screen. When I connect the new fog server in to the same jack (even tried same IP) the target desktop doesn’t show that it received an IP address. Maybe I need to setup a DHCP relay server on the new fog server?

@george1421 You are most likely correct. There is no error. The client shows that it is booting ove PXE on IPv4. It times out after around a minute. Do I need to point the Fog server to the DHCP server? When the old Fog server is connected it finds an IP address and boots normally. I feel I’m missing something network or DHCP server setting.

@george1421 We have two windows DHCP servers that gives out IPs. When I connect a client to the old fog server it gets an IP address. When I plugin the new fog server into the same port as the old fog server and then try to connect the client it does not get an IP address. The only change I made is swapping the new fog server with the old. Same client and the same network jack.

@george1421 I did update the kernel before I got your last message. It appears that the PXE client is not getting an IP address. Also, the 066 was not set up for the old Fog server, but the PXE client gets an IP and connects. So I’m not sure what I’m missing.

@george1421 Yes, I have two DHCP servers but I configured 066 on both servers.

Jim P.

George1421 Thanks for the reply. I have made the change to the 066 change to the DHCP server. But I am still not seeing the pxe server. I will try to update the FOS linux kernel and recompile iPXE.

Jim P.

I am replacing on old FOG server with a physically new server running ubuntu 20.04 and FOG 1.5.9. I followed the migration guide located at https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Migrate_FOG. I compared the /opt/fog/.fogsettings file and it is generally the same. The new server is on the same network as the old. The IP address has been changed in the settings.

When I try to have a client connect to the PXE server it connects to the old server. When I shutdown the old server the client then does not see any PXE server.

Is there anything I need to do on the new FOG server to get the PXE server running? Is there anything I need to do on the network?

Thanks for your assistance.

Jim P.