Posts made by Godlike

@sebastian-roth The windows commands were related to the internet part only. Its most likely not related to FOG install at all that the internet started acting up, so i cant speak much about it. I will do some testing with a different isp later to see if the problem could be in the router or switch being configured badly. So far the whole thing is working its just a bit inconvinient to have to restart when it fails

@sebastian-roth Reinstalled fog to see if that would fix the problem, it didnt do much. I expected as much since the version i see on screen when booting is iPXE 1.21.1+ (gc64d) which is supposedly the latest version when looking around the git hub.

When running ls -la /tftpboot/.efi the files seem to be reinstalled/updated.

What is interesting is that when i first installed FOG the whole internet started acting a bit strange. Sometimes wifi doesnt connect (Connected, secured. No internet) errors, similar with cable connections. What usually fixes the issue is ipconfig /release - ipconfig /flushdns - ipconfig /renew and its all back to normal, connects instantly. Perhaps its not getting a decent connection during the pxe boot when it needs to download through tftp? Its a wild guess from me.

Also what i should probably mention is that when i first installed FOG it was on a test laptop to see how it would work, but i didnt properly uninstall it i suppose, just formated the disk. Made a new install on a machine im running on right now. Could that affect anything as well?

Thank you in advance!

@sebastian-roth Thank you for the reply, i will try it out and see if it has any changes.

@sebastian-roth Finally managed to get some time to test it out and no use, still the same issue. some laptops dont have the issue but some take up to 6 restarts for it to actually work. A icybox lan USB lan adapter sometimes makes it work more often in these cases, im not sure if it has any affect or not. The only error with that im gettin is the following:

tftp://x.x.x.x/default.ipxe… Connection timed out (http://ipxe.org/4c126092)

I have reed the website in the brackets but still came to a conclusion as in why does it work sometimes, but the other times it just doesnt. Could it really be a lease issue? DHCP not working properly or maybe i have multiple ports open (66,67…)?

Would installing dnsmasq be of any use here in this case?

Thanks and sorry for the later reply

@george1421 Ordered a switch, will respond after i have tested things out with the STP. Should arrive tomorrow

@george1421 Its a TP-Link Gigabit switch (TL-SG116E) , but im pretty sure its not ever configured. Its been at my workplace before i came here. And its currently between the pxe booting computer and the main router. So Router - TPlink switch - target computer. The main host computer is also built on the switch if that makes any difference

Hello! Im very new to FOG project and so far im liking it. I have done a lot of research on how to perfect everything by reading forums and WIKI and so far it has all been helpful. Now i have an issue that i cant seem to find a solution to. Whenever i boot inti ipv4 and start the pxe, it dowloads the NBP file and everything goes well. It receives DHCP answer and after that starts loading default.ipxe which comes to a *Connection timed out (http://ipxe.org/4c126092)
Chainloading failed.

Now the issue only tends to happen sometimes, and a computer reboot usually fixes it but sometimes it doesnt work after 5 tries. I cant seem to find the solution to it.

I use snponly.efi, during FOG installation configured it to handle DHCP and used mostly default settings. The machine the server is running on is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

If there is any other information needed, i can try to dig that up as well since im a bit of a beginner in this field.

Thank you!