Posts made by Glenn Wilson

Greetings all,

Fog .32 server bit the dust, so we installed Fog 1.2 on Xubuntu 13.10. This is using a proxy DHCP server. After some troubleshooting, the server will upload, download, and multicast to our Optiplex 7010s.

Our Optiplex 790s are another matter. I have successfully uploaded a 790 image, but am unable to actually download/deploy it. The BIOS has been updated to A18. I’ve tested many of the available kernels (some hang at points, some loop after init.xz, some kernel panic) but 3.16.x,3.17.x,3.18.x all seem to boot fine with no errors. Could there be a kernel argument needed, or something else? The problem is that the imaging process “completes” immediately. There are no error messages displayed and the usual “task completed, updating database, etc…” messages display before the system reboots. I know SOMETHING is being written, because when the download is run on a functioning Windows 7 machine, after the task the machine will not boot back into Windows. It seems like the MBR is getting wiped but nothing is actually being written. Pulling my hair out (if I had any) because all is well on the 7010s. I have several labs to image by the 19th and any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Glenn Wilson
Austin Community College

I started from scratch this morning, paying extra attention to the proxy dhcp setup process, and it now seems to be working as it should. Have successfully uploaded and multicasted an image. Thanks for your help.

I haven’t tried any other host, yet. Also haven’t specified any other type of task. I can’t deploy or multicast without an image, so that’s what I’ve been trying to make happen. kernel-3.6.9.core is what we’ve been using, with no problems when the server is running correctly. I was going to try to delete the hosts on Monday (I imported from a csv file) and register them again and see if that does anything. I’m just really stumped because all of the other issues prior to this threw me an error message of some sort and with this I get nothing.

I’ve been using Fog .32 for 3 years to image several classroom labs. My Fog server bit the dust (don’t know why), so I rolled a new server with Ubuntu 10.04 and Fog .32 using the Fog machine as a proxy DHCP server. The clients see the server and I can do a memtest, quick register, full register, boot to HD. What I can’t do is upload an image. I create the task in the web GUI and reboot the target machine. Target boots fine (see first pic), but doesn’t start the task: it goes straight to the Fog menu and then boots into Windows 7. It’s like it doesn’t see the upload task and there are no error messages. Any other task I select from the Fog menu shows that the correct kernel is loading and the selected task begins. I think this is a directory issue, but obviously not sure. Also attached a (bad) second pic showing the kernel directories, etc.

Server is at the school and I don’t have access to it again until Monday morning, but I need to get as much of this figured out this weekend as possible.

Thanks for any insight.

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Hello,

We’ve had Fog .32 working under Ubuntu for over a year. The problem is, it’s been so long since we set it up, and it’s run so well, that we can’t remember how to make the Fog boot menu appear when the machine boots up. The only options we get right now are either Boot from network or Boot from HDD. We’re getting new machines next month and need to be able to quick register them. Is this a setting somewhere in the Fog dashboard or is it something that is set in the pxelinux.cfg/default file? Or something entirely different?

If someone could point me in the right direction I’d be extremely appreciative.

Thanks,
Glenn Wilson
Austin Community College

Thanks for the reply. We have chainloading implemented. The problem turned out to be a missing file or files that weren’t copied correctly during the setup phase. Re-copying the files fixed the issue. Thanks again.

Greetings,

I am currently trying to image several computer labs here at school and we’re having a bit of an issue. These are Optiplex 790’s with Windows 7. We have them booting to the Fog menu but when we choose to boot the hard disk from the Fog menu the systems will hang at the “Booting to hard disk…” message. Naturally, the systems will boot to the hard disk when network booting is not selected. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Glenn