@Tom-Elliott
After some more troubleshooting I am still stuck on trying to skip the REFIND screen. I will have some screenshots below. I’ve attempted to remove all scanfor BIOS options from refind.conf with no luck. If I enter any key, I can boot to the OS. I’m trying to find how to remove this scan as I’m trying to make the UEFI imaging as automated as the BIOS imaging. Images below…
After imaging
After inputting any key
As an update, after creating a GPT partitioned image and uploading it to FOG, the image will successfully boot.
The only issue I have now is that I still receive the REFIND menu. It allows me to boot into the OS afterwards, but each time it boots (unless I disable network boot), it will go into the REFIND menu. Is there a way to either, edit the conf file to not display REFIND or to fix the issue with it not detected a CSM?
I have not tried other exit types after fixing the image so if this is how REFIND will be, I can re-attempt other exit methods.
On a side note, thank you to everyone for the assistance. I did not even realize that UEFI used GPT partitions to boot.
@tom-elliott Thank you for the clarification. I will finish uploading the image in the morning and post an update.
@wayne-workman curiosity question as I was doing some more research. My current image I’m testing is formatted as a MBR partition. I read that UEFI needs to be formatted as GPT to be bootable. I just created a VM (using Proxmox) as UEFI bios and converted it to GPT. Going to upload it to Fog in the am. Think that could deal with the REFIND loop?
@wayne-workman I do not notice any errors during capture or deploy.
@wayne-workman As another update, I’ve tested all exit types and all have failed to boot.
Exit gives me a chainloading fail
The rest just keep doing the boot to hard drive in Fog
I edited the /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/refind.conf to scanfor internal,external,hdbios,biosexternal and timeout to 0 per another forum post and still no luck.
Again, even after imaging, BIOS shows both NIC boots but no other boot device (such as Windows Boot Manager) or a hard drive. Believe all laptops being affected are M2 SSD’s. Unsure if they are nvme.
@wayne-workman That could be a big issue though. I am creating my images via a VM. Anything specific I should look at for creating a UEFI based image?
I did do CTRL ALT DELETE to test each exit so I can power off and go from there.
@wayne-workman Update: Also happening on Dell Latitude 7480s. Only support UEFI. Below is how this one was imaged
UEFI Network Stack enabled
Secure Boot disabled
SATA changed to ACHI
Stuck in REFIND loop. If exit type is changed, receiving a chainloading fail.
Earlier I tested an old workstation set to Legacy and imaged fine. Still thinking it’s an issue with UEFI or my image.
Currently I have 1 master image being used (split off into multiple smaller images). Sysprep it and upload to Fog. I don’t have separate images for Legacy/UEFI. Should I create a specific image a certain way for only UEFI machines?
@wayne-workman Currently the issue is residing on Dell Latitude 5590s. Received a few new ones to deploy and all are experiencing this issue.
@wayne-workman @Tom-Elliott As an update, I’ve tried multiple exit modes and have ran into chainloading failed with those.
Another instance I noticed is after the imaging is completed, if I enter the BIOS, I have the usual NIC IPV4 and IPV6 but no other boot devices such as Windows Boot Manager or hard drive.
Kind of at a loss on what I am missing for UEFI to work. I’ve gone through and verified that I’ve done everything located below.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=BIOS_and_UEFI_Co-Existence
Couple other bits of information is that after imaging the hard drive, the BIOS shows NIC IPV4 and NIC IPV6 but no other boot devices.
Disabling those as the boot devices leaves No boot device found.
Most recent kernels are installed as well.
@Wayne-Workman @Tom-Elliott As an update, I have completed the steps on the BIOS & UEFI coexistence in the link previously.
I complete a full host registration prior to imaging.
Current version of Fog is 1.5.2.
I could try using a different exit type for that host but I’m running into the REFIND issue with quite a few Dell laptops we received today.
@wayne-workman @Tom-Elliott My apologies, I see that I mistyped a few things.
These laptops have the following boot modes. UEFI and Legacy External Devices. If I disable secure boot and image the laptop, after imaging, I get stuck in a missing CSM firmware REFIND boot loop.
The issue I am having is I cannot get the UEFI image and boot to work. It will image, but get stuck in the REFIND boot loop.
Running into an issue with newer Dell systems.
Here is what goes through at the moment. Complete image, laptop reboots, boots to hard drive and boot loops with REFIND. Try removing PXE boot from the equation and then no boot device found. These laptops are UEFI only and are unable to boot Legacy. I have our DHCP server configured to allow UEFI imaging and booting but I am at a loss at how to resolve this issue.
Currently the BIOS is set as follows. Secure Boot - disabled. Legacy ROMS Enabled and Legacy Boot Enabled.
Any ideas?
For UEFI server options, 066 is server address and 067 is ipxe.efi
@george1421 George, thank you. The issue has actually been resolved. For some reason, checking what was using .1.25 did not cross my mind. As soon as I did a scan of our network, I found that someone had booted up our old imaging server which was located at 1.25. Once I turned it back off, Fog returned back to normal.
Issue has been resolved!
@george1421 No, that was the strange part. The fog server is 192.168.1.155. Also this is running on Ubuntu.
Fog has been working fine until today. Currently receiving an issue stating tftp://192.168.1.25/default.ipxe…Error 0x3d126001 (http://ipxe.org/3d126001)
Chainloading failed, hit ‘s’ for the iPXE shell; reboot in 10 seconds
I’ve been troubleshooting this for about an hour and stuck on the resolution.