Posts made by Jaymes Driver

You need to look online and see if there is a bios update for your computer, if it’s not trying to look for a pxe boot server then your problem lies there not with the server.

Some hardware is also not compatible with the fog server as of yet. -> [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/ProblematicDevices[/url]

Once your pc wants to PXE boot and tries to communicate with your server you will see activity, it will either succeed and load the fog PXE menu or it will fail and give you an error code at which case we can troubleshoot.

When you say you turned your computer on but nothing happened, explain.

Did it try to load a pxe boot?
Did you receive an error when it did try to pxe boot?
What was the error?

I don’t know why this is so hard to accomplish I have found a way to restart the service via a script after the server is up and running again but I have not been successful in delaying the start of the tftpd-hpa service

put a script in /etc/network/if-up.d/tftpd-hpa
containing:

#!/bin/sh
restart tftpd-hpa

And, chmod 755 the script.

Scratch that I found this
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I am experiencing this problem in Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop (package: tftpd-5.2-1ubuntu1). The tftpd daemon does not start when the computer starts up, even though the tftpd-hpa job starts. As far as I can tell, the problem is that the tftpd service is starting before the network is properly configured. The problem seemed to go away when I changed the line
start on runlevel [2345]
in /etc/init/tftpd-hpa.conf to
start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo)[/code]

I’m not on 12.04 anymore I dropped back to 10.04, do you want to give this a shot?

Leon, are you still having issues?

From reading your statement I have gathered that you want to save your images from your FOG server on a network space, is this correct?

I know that FOG is going to need access to this folder with read and write permissions, I would first start with checking there and trying to make a public space where it will not be affected but network policies.

We use a Novell Network here and I run into problems with permissions all the time.

However I am not familiar with adding a space for the FOG server to save an image to, in my FOG server there is a drop down box where I can select “default” and possibly a node if I had installed one. I don’t know what is involved with locating the space on the network and adding it to the drop down list.

I would also install the Samba service of Ubuntu to help alleviate some of the problems your going to run into using a Linux box in Windows environment.

I’m still tossing this idea around for my FOG server, I’m not exactly convinced on it yet. We kind of want to go the whole “Golden image” route from the sound of things, I prefer just setting up individual images per device (but I only manage 7 different devices so this makes it easier).

Keep us posted on what you come up with I love to see what the community is doing with their fog servers and the mods they put in place!

There is a way to incorporate *.iso images to boot from maybe something similar can be done with the images your have?

Unfortunately I think that using a spare hard drive and uploading the image would be the best bet, just don’t actually BOOT the refreshed image so it doesn’t change any drivers and turn around and immediately upload it to FOG. This would probably be the fastest work around, but I’d start with one i have the hardware for to make sure nothing gets mucked up in the process. From what you have explained I agree with you and I’m on the same page, the images SHOULD be good, but do a test on one just to make sure!

Here’s that post on booting ISO images. [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/how-to-modify-the-pxe-boot-menu-to-allow-the-booting-of-iso-files.154/page-2[/url]

edit your /etc/rc.local

to include
[code]
/bin/sleep 30 && /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa restart
[/code]

this should tell your linux to restart the service in 30 seconds after it starts this should take care of having to manually enter the command after a reboot.

Currently there is not.

There is a Long registration that is really close but it doesn’t go through the image creation only assigning a already created image to the registered unit. There is also no way to Upload an image from the PXE command line, only deploy an image with a “quick image”.

I’m sure with some coding it could be possible!

I would like to see more command and management through the command line too!

I prefer to register my machines as well, middle of the year image pushing comes in handy, and end of the year inventory is going to be particularly easy this year.

but I have also thought about using this “bypass host registration” guide… I just can’t decide

So let me try to understand what it is you are trying to do.

You have images (from ghost) not currently deployed on a system and you want to “port” those images to FOG to be deployed later?

You have to upload your image to a device, register it with FOG, and then push the upload to your FOG server.

If you have a ghost image and you want to use it only with FOG without deploying the image and uploading, to my understanding this can not be done.

If you had Clonezilla images or something in a .img format you should “technically” be able to do add them to your image space on the FOG server and with the proper coding be able to deploy those images to your devices.

please refer to [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/adding-gho-images.4229/[/url] BryceZ explains they are a different format that are not supported by each other.

You could try to install the proxydhcp with DNSmasq, my building is funky with it’s DHCP and I have problems tftpbooting without the service.

I’d definitely give it a shot if your next server is set for the DHCP to see and you still are unsuccessful in getting your fog pxeboot screen

take a look here if you are interested.

[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Using_FOG_with_an_unmodifiable_DHCP_server/_Using_FOG_with_no_DHCP_server[/url]

You’re correct about the scope and topology, The problem I was running into, ultimately, is something within my network is preventing the pxelinux.0 from reaching it’s final destination. Part of the pxelinux.0 would be received but the rest kind of just floated in limbo.

I have another topic where I went through troubleshooting steps and eventually, enabling a proxyDHCP service with dnsmasq resolved the issue.

I appreciate your insight on this as well as your understanding of the network!

Topic is here -> [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/tftp-problems.4163/[/url]

can you use commands to pull the pxelinux.0 from your server?

[code]
tftp x.x.x.x get pxelinux.0
[/code]

if you get your pxelinux.0

set up a box to wireshark and see where the file gets stuck.

We use Static IPs on our printers so I can’t be of service here

This does sound odd and I am very interested in how this gets resolved.

bjennings, can we start a new thread for you? Lets start with what the problem is, if it’s this PXE-E32 Time out issue, what linux version you are running and the fog version you have installed, then we can start troubleshooting your issue directly, so we don’t confuse topics or information expressed here.

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replaced router but it has the same ip address[/code]

Routers are bad, they tend to block things. Is there a DMZ zone you can set for the ip address of your server? can you try a SWITCH and not a router?

Since the router is the only thing that has changed that is where the problem would steam would be my guess, and that is where I would start.

It would be a good idea to run Wireshark to see how much information is being passed along.

What is the error, if any, you are receiving?

I’m sorry My expertise is at a limit here I’m still new, i’m glad we got your FOG to where it boots but I’m going to bow out now and let someone familiar with NAS step in good luck Leon!

You say it worked? what was the output you received after entering the commands?

If you receive “Received XXXX bytes in X.X seconds…” or something similar then TFTP is in fact running and is accessible, and this probably falls under the same issue I ran into.

Try re-installing fog WITHOUT specifying a DNS, or DHCP server, after successful install, please use this wiki and install the dnsmasq for proxyDHCP. Now try booting PXE, what do you get?
[FONT=monospace]Wiki is Here ->[/FONT][FONT=monospace][SIZE=2][FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Using_FOG_with_an_unmodifiable_DHCP_server/_Using_FOG_with_no_DHCP_server[/url]

it’s good that ping is working, lets try to see if tftp service is running

from windows open a command prompt and type
[code]
tftp x.x.x.x get pxelinux.0
[/code]
where x.x.x.x is the IP address of your fog server.

linux command from a terminal
[code]
tftp -v x.x.x.x -c get pxelinux.0
[/code]
again where x.x.x.x is the IP address of your fog server.

After typing the commands and pressing enter what happens?

bjennings

edit your /etc/rc.local and include
/bin/sleep30 && /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa restart

this is what is required to delay the start up of the tftp service at boot.