My current district is attempting to move away from Windows to ChromeOS Flex for some devices. So far it works great when USB installed on a legacy device, but we’re eventually looking to install it to around 180 PCs.

Has anyone had any luck with getting this OS deploy to work with FOG? There’s not much documentation on it from what I can find and it always seems to get stuck at the bootloader step; it outputs vmlinuz.A on screen before going back to the mobo’s splash screen. Capturing / deploying the partitions seems to be working fine, since it’s capturing 12 and writing 12 to the disk. I’ve attached an example host’s settings as well as settings for the image here.

For reference, the image was captured off of a CSM / BIOS machine.
FOG Version is 1.5.10
Kernel Version is 5.15.93

https://i.postimg.cc/0yWSNzNG/Fog-settings-1.png
https://i.postimg.cc/Ss0JXCb9/Fog-settings-2.png

@JJ-Fullmer
In our environment we just use a service account that has delegated rights to create / delete computer objects and domain join, it doesn’t have access to anything else. No need for domain admin in that case.

@JJ-Fullmer
In our environment we just use a service account that has delegated rights to create / delete computer objects and domain join, it doesn’t have access to anything else. No need for domain admin in that case.

The latest Ubuntu version I’ve personally seen that works is 22.04 LTS. I’d recommend trying that to see if the installer finishes.

The FOGService constantly checks in with the server for any changes made in the web GUI, I’d recommend turning it off after you domain join a device. I pushed this regkey via group policy and it seems to have fixed our issue with the web GUI getting bogged down with requests.

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\FOGService
Look for the Start DWORD

• 4 for Disabled

Is there a way to bulk export the “Motherboard Product Name” for all hosts that are inventoried in FOG? I can find the information by clicking on each host individually but I was wondering if I could get this information for all of my PCs via a CSV file.

My current district is attempting to move away from Windows to ChromeOS Flex for some devices. So far it works great when USB installed on a legacy device, but we’re eventually looking to install it to around 180 PCs.

Has anyone had any luck with getting this OS deploy to work with FOG? There’s not much documentation on it from what I can find and it always seems to get stuck at the bootloader step; it outputs vmlinuz.A on screen before going back to the mobo’s splash screen. Capturing / deploying the partitions seems to be working fine, since it’s capturing 12 and writing 12 to the disk. I’ve attached an example host’s settings as well as settings for the image here.

For reference, the image was captured off of a CSM / BIOS machine.
FOG Version is 1.5.10
Kernel Version is 5.15.93

https://i.postimg.cc/0yWSNzNG/Fog-settings-1.png
https://i.postimg.cc/Ss0JXCb9/Fog-settings-2.png

@george1421
I don’t have a physical model of this Dell Vostro on-hand to check the firmware. We’re looking to buy new staff desktops and are wanting to ensure they’re compatible with our imaging solution. We’re running on FOG version 1.5.10, with our kernel being on version 5.15.93. Server host is running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Hello,

I am a K12 tech working for a rural district and am looking for some input. Our director is looking to buy a new fleet of Dell Vostro 3020s for our next staff refresh and I was wondering if anybody has had any luck with getting these to work with FOG’s imaging solution (whether by updating to the latest kernel or whatnot). It uses an NVMe M.2 and doesn’t appear to be using a fake RAID. Below is a link to the specifications we’re looking at for it. I appreciate any input on this model.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/vostro-small-form-factor/spd/vostro-3020-sff/usevspbts3020fyjm

@george1421
For the 7080 it doesn’t have CSM mode unlike other Dell hardware I’ve had to image. I’ll give the latest 6.x kernel a shot and see how it works with one of them when I’m back in the office tomorrow.

Hello,
I am a tech at a K12 district and am needing some assistance
with imaging Dell machines that use fake RAIDS (UEFI only) to use Windows 11. I have gotten FOG to work with other fake RAID devices by disabling other drives and using AHCI mode. However, these particular models do not work with this workaround.

With some setups I can get FOG to deploy to the respective drive setup at the time, however, the Dell is not able to boot from it. When going into the Dell interface, it will not allow me to select the drive(s) as a boot option, even though the drive shows NTFS partitions when using lsblk.

STEPS I’VE TRIED:

• Setting machine to AHCI instead of RAID ON.
• Disabling secure boot / TPM.
• Using the /dev/md126 / mdraid=true arguments in the web GUI
• Pulling up the device’s fake RAID with /proc/mdstat (doesn’t show anything).
• Disabling all but one SSD in the machine, then imaging to that and setting
  the host main disk to whatever appears in lsblk (i.e. /dev/nvme0n1)
• Disabling all drives, then attaching USB external storage to image to. Other machines can boot into the imaged USB, but the Optiplex does not even allow it to be selected.

FOG SERVER INFORMATION

• It’s running on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• FOG version is 1.5.10
• Kernel version was 5.15.93 (uname -a)

IMAGE INFORMATION

• The image is 20GB in size, and is set to be used as
  “single-disk, resizable”
• The image is verified to work on other machines.

Any ideas? I’m at a loss and would rather avoid having to USB install an entire lab of computers.