Posts made by Jesus Jordan

[quote=“FogUserXYZ, post: 11519, member: 3752”]Hello and thank you for reading.

I work IT in an office of 70 users, and use FOG to for imaging the office machines.

With one laptop, an HP Elitebook 2530p that I am trying to deploy a windows 7 image too (overwriting the current XP image) it goes through what appears to be a normal boot process, then gets to the blue screen where you would expect to see the image deploy status, but then it just says “changing hostname” then “success” then it reboots without actually deploying the image.

In Active tasks in FOG it shows the task as completed and over with, it is driving me nuts!

Here is a link to pictures I took of the stages of the process, hopefully somebody can identify what the mistake is from these.

[url]http://imgur.com/a/fBZCT[/url]

Thank you so much for reading![/quote]

I have experienced this before. Changing the FOG kernel to another version with support for the laptop in question solved my problem.

How to change your FOG kernel: [url]http://sysadministration.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/changing-the-kernel-fog-clients-use-for-pxe-boot/[/url]
List of FOG kernels and supported devices: [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=WorkingDevices[/url]

Hey guys. I’m running 0.32, not 0.33 but I wanted to share some insight to help the Windows 8 support for 0.33.

I set up a virtual machine running Windows 8 Enterprise with a single partition and uploaded it to FOG. I ran the fogprep exe which I had to modify because it does not support Windows 8 (I just commented where you check to make sure the machine is running Windows 7 because the registry keys being modified are exactly the same in Windows and I ran sysprep with my unattended xml answer file. When I tried to download the image to another machine, I received an error at boot saying “Booting… Missing Operating System”. I dug into the fog source code with my boss and discovered that the issue is that there is a method that checks the os version and applies one of several mbr files that you have. Because Windows 8 is not supported and I selected Windows 7 as the host os on the fog web interface, it wrote the wrong mbr to the machine. After we copied the correct mbr from the Windows 8 master image and wrote it to the machine, it booted correctly. There still is a problem, however. The hard drive was not resized properly to the size of the new machine it was being imaged to. The new machine is showing only ~40GB which was the size of the actual fog image. Also, I the fog client is not working properly. It is not renaming the machine or joining it to the domain.

[quote=“BryceZ, post: 9257, member: 2”]Windows 8 support is being tested.[/quote]
I hope this helps the progress. I set up a virtual machine running Windows 8 Enterprise with a single partition and uploaded it to FOG. I ran the fogprep exe which I had to modify because it does not support Windows 8 (I just commented where you check to make sure the machine is running Windows 7 because the registry keys being modified are exactly the same in Windows and I ran sysprep with my unattended xml answer file. When I tried to download the image to another machine, I received an error at boot saying “Booting… Missing Operating System”. I dug into the fog source code with my boss and discovered that the issue that there is a method that checks the os and applies one of several mbr files that you have. Because Windows 8 is not supported and I selected Windows 7 as the host os on the fog web interface, it wrote the wrong mbr to the machine. After we copied the correct mbr and wrote it to the machine, it booted correctly. There still is a problem, however. The hard drive was not resized properly to the size of the new machine it was being imaged to. The new machine is showing only ~40GB which was the size of the actual fog image. Also, I am not sure that the fog client is working properly. It has not rebooted the machine yet to change the name and add it to the active directory.

Any chance their may be support for Windows 8?