All,
I have been happily using FOG for about a year now with the legacy boot options. We just got some new Dell notebooks in that are UEFI only (Latitude 5500). All I had to do was change the boot file section on my SonicWALL to read “ipxe.efi” and my Dell laptops now boot to UEFI PXE without issue. I am having 2 problems. The first problem may be due to my unattend.xml or a Windows update issue in the image as I am getting the never-ending spinning dots at the “Just a Moment” blue screen. The second problem is all 3 notebook models I have tested (Latitude 5500, Latitude E5450, and Latitude 7212 Rugged) halt after the Partclone imaging process with the following message displayed on the screen:
In Progress * Rebooting system as task is complete
reboot: Restarting system
At first I though the “Just a Moment” hang problem I was having on the new 5500 was being caused by this refusal to reboot, like some of the imaging process was not quite done; however, when I imaged the 7212 I had no issues outside of it hanging with the same message after the Partclone imaging process. Maybe I’m just being impatient; I let the workstation sit at the Restarting system message for about 15 minutes before force reboot (FYI, after forcing reboot, the system does boot; however, the SetupComplete.cmd looks like it didn’t run i.e. device manager is a mess as if the drivers did not get installed, some applications I install with SetupComplete.cmd are not installed, etc.)
I am currently treating the “Just a Moment” issue as a problem with my unattend or Windows update problem as the 7212 system I was able to successfully image did not have this problem (it uses a more up to date golden image and unattend file). I have only mentioned it to be thorough. Here are some server version and some setting that may be pertinent. If you need anything else, please let me know.
Fog 1.5.7
Kernel 4.19.48 (also tried 4.19.64 and had the same issue)
ACPI=off
Boot File is ipxe.efi