@wayne-workman
I really appreciate all your help over the thread. Sadly this machine has a lot of issues in booting except for the latest linux. I only managed to get debian 10 pre release and gentoo to run. So FOG is probably gonna take a while. The issue is around it recognizing the internal harddrive otherwise it just skips over it on the boot screen and choses the usb drive. I looked around and it seems to be a linux kernel issue that got resolved only in october or so release

@sebastian-roth bingo and it has sorta worked but the issue is whatever kernel fog uses to do that system registration is just too old for this brand new machine and it misses the harddisk entirely. This has happened when installing locally as well. So idk what core system y’all use but we need to update it to the most recent

@wayne-workman said in IPXE boot to fog cloud server:

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Modifying_existing_DHCP_server_to_work_with_FOG

well now my issue again seem to be ipxe since i cant get it to get an ip no matter what i do but thats not FOG. Like I said i wanted to know the directory where files are stored on log and where the scripts are etc because those were not listed anywhere that was part of confusion

@wayne-workman
actually it went through fine now. The last issue i have is that it kernel panics once it boots but idk if thats a local hardware issue or part of the server. The key here was to know where to point to the fog php page

@wayne-workman said in IPXE boot to fog cloud server:

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Modifying_existing_DHCP_server_to_work_with_FOG

actually when i pointed the url to x.x.x.x/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php i got the boot screen but it kept looping. After that it started to time out and now all it does is time out. So im closer but i dont know what else im missing. I can access it fine via a browswer

@wayne-workman
on the aws server all ports are open. When i used the prebuilt ipxe test environment it works fine. My guess is something is wrong with the fog server but i used the guide that i linked to before and it doesnt provide anymore details

@george1421

i havent made any changes from stock at all. I dont know what you mean by dhcp option 67. I made the ipxe usb drive boot from the ipxe site. Maybe there is a different version but i certainly didnt see anything else.

here is one straight from boot just used dhcp and hten loaded the chain command

@wayne-workman said in IPXE boot to fog cloud server:

@ipxefoguser we need a photo of the error.

nothing happens. It connects to the server and then just stays on there. Waiting for something. It says http://X.X.X.X … ok