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I have just found this issue, Anyone have a fix?

are they all in a clean shutdown state before starting?
do they already have an OS?

Just came across the same issue, did you fix it?

@george1421
I have downloaded various versions on ipxe.efi and i get a change of play but nothing that moves on.
I did try snp.efi but as you suggested, this didn’t work.
I have also opened a ticket with Lenovo but don’t expect that to bear any fruit.

what do i try next?

We have a fleet of ThinkPads Yoga 13 (G1-G4)
These have been working perfectly (imaging) but now after a recent BIOS update devices are getting to a black screen with “iPXE initialising Devices…”

1st i just want to check i should be playing with option 067 to fix this (at least test)
currently using ipxe.efi

and advice on getting these devices imaging again would be amazing.
(i’m going to start looking for a new version of the above)

BIOS version = R23ET35W (1.20)
ControllerV = R27HT29W (1.17)
Model = 21FJ001YUK

have you looked into:
Response Error multiple hosts returned for list of mac addresses

in the host search box you can put the mac address to lookup the host (or many hosts)

There should be only one per MAC access (careful when imaging from docks or usb NICS) Fog does protect against this action but you never know.

you’re right, you can’t use the RAID. this is already off.
I can image the machines, The point is that is doesn’t flow. it needs another reboot so just a little harder to leave them to it. (got quite a few to do )

the 2nd is indeed windows but i was wondering if the FOG agent reboot isn’t a full reboot of some kind (what’s the command used by agent) shutdown -r ??
it’s last task would have been joining the domain.

It feels like a FastBoot thing the more i think about it, just didn’t get time to test. If FOG inventory is “fastbooting” it might be skipping where it then boot back into the PXE to continue the deployment

And windows might apply the auto login details from the unattend.xml but not get a full reboot, more like waking from a hibernate (caused by they way FOG agent reboots the system after joining the domain)

Managed to get these machines deploying with the latest kernel (Thank you).
(UEFI, Windows 11)

The strange thing about these machines are two fold.

1. When I 1st register the device in in fog from the boot menu, at the end when asked it you want to FOG now, you say YES but it seems to pop out of the process and continue to load the local HDD with now a broken OS due to changes in the RAID settings. If we reboot and then boot from PXE, it starts and deploys the image

2. We have a process after the deployment that auto signs in a domain user to finish some tasks and then we shutdown. On these machines the auto login doesn’t work until we reboot it one more time. This is not a new process, been doing it for 7+ Years and other new machines work as normal.

One note was when we reboot it then installs a few GPO applications, this is normal but normally after it’s logged in once bla bla. When we reboot to start this process we don’t see the BIOS and it’s quick.

This leads me to think that FastBoot in the BIOS might be the issue. I’m putting this up in case anyone else has any ideas. I can’t test until Monday, i will update but any ideas welcome.

Thanks, thanks, thanks.

depending on the task if i recall correctly there is a folder in the TFTP or near by that has a file created with the MAC address as the tile name for that job.

(Just saying )

Correct me if I’m wrong please.

@george1421

Thank you, perfect followup…
worked well as well L13 Yoga success.

Thanks to all.

@george1421

And if i want to go back to another kernel due to other hardware having issues, i can just download from the in fog menu?

Sorry if i’m missing something here but I have this same issue with the same device.

I wish to use UEFI so ipxe.efi?

How do I as a N00b get this to work?

I’ve updated my kernal to 4.19.101, but i don’t see any 5 versions ?

update - i’ve updated fog to 1.5.7, using ipxe.efi but still a little stuck.

I mean a USB NIC Dongle.

the 1st again works fine and then it boot loops.

so during the image process:-

You boot and it downloads the image then it reboots to complete sysprep of our image but gets stuck. We eaither switch off the PC and back on (continues) or remove the USB NIC and it continues…

But we have seen this on a few internal NIC devices also.

No, we get it with other devices. Some being fogged via a USB dongle. could that be an issue?

I find that a lot of our machines (Dell) and virtual machines seem to boot loop if they are restarted, but not from cold boot?? can anyone explain or suggest a resolution.

The screenshot is just before a loop. (THANKS)

I tried to find it again and I can’t.
I’ll have another look.

Regardless, please can it be made possible.

When we add a new host, can this tick be enabled by default, without having to say yes to AD at registration?

I wish to force logout automatically on new host registration.
The tick box is under Active Directory but can be used without the rest of the AD items.

Can you force this on in FOG_Settings or do i need to say add to domain after setting the defaults. Issue there is the “Join Domain” will also be ticket and is not desired.

Thanks in advance.

I looked into the forum and found this being requested but it didn’t look like it was completed.

When i add machines to a group, it adds random machines at the same time.
We have had this issue for some time and thought it was a bug, but this would have been fixed by now if it was. We do complete the DB maintenance tasks as well and from memory this helped but this also don’t seem to resole it anymore.

Please advise.

If anyone else needs this:

I cheated but it worked for my needs
My personal notes =

Imagelog cleanup
Downloaded MySQL Workbench to complete tasks

See records to be deleted.
SELECT * FROM fog.imagingLog where ilImageName NOT LIKE ‘%<latest image name>%’;

Delete Records (Rerun command until effected rows =0) - due to safety feature in Workbench
DELETE FROM fog.imagingLog where ilImageName NOT LIKE ‘<latest image name>’ LIMIT 1000;