Posts made by Kiba

This is interesting. Worth a read on UEFI booting
[url]http://4sysops.com/archives/windows-8-secure-boot/[/url]

[quote=“Darren George, post: 15420, member: 375”]Good day Wusd, yes its very disappointing to say the least but im sure we can find a solution on this, we need to put all our ideas together, so on your usb pen did you get the clonezilla iso into the menu selection for disc to disc option? Mine freezes at the option to select normal clonezilla or KMS selection just stays on the clonezilla.png. Ive got a phonecall with Dell support UK on Monday where im going to grill them big time and I will relay any info that makes anything clearer.[/quote]

How did you Monday call go? I have a Dell support call on the 19th about this is. Any info I can bring to the call beforehand would be great. I’ve made zero progress since my last posting, but I only have 2, not the 875 units so I’m at the point were I’ve decided to set each one up manually and not buy any more. Still I’d love to get this figured out.

Hi Tom,

You are correct the tablets use the dock to gain access to the lan. The BIOS claims to have PXE boot support for ipv4 and ipv6 as part of the boot sequence options.
The boot sequence is set to first PXE boot then windows Boot manger, floowed by UEFI hard disc. I can turn off the UEFI hard disc and boot manager option all together and see what happens, but I don’t have the dock with me. It will be a few days before I can get back on the result of that test.

Just more info, under secure boot the secure boot is set to disabled.
Darren, I feel your pain!

When you say another PXE system, do you mean changing my pxe kernel? If so I’ve tried every kernel as far back as 2010. I thought worth trying those kitchen sink Kernels, that’s why I went so far back.

I have tried this using a usb drive. It works great on my new optiplex machines (Which PXE boot’d fine as well) but these darn latitude 10 tablets won’t ever try and gpxe boot. It won’t see the USB drive at all. I’ve tried the dell tech support, I’m lucky enough to have a premium support package, but for some reason they just don’t get it. I keep getting sent documents on how to sysprep, with single lines saying “Now image the machine”. It’s looking more and more like a BIOS issue to me. I can boot using USB to things like Gparted, so I know the device can boot off a USB device, but even that hangs as soon as the splash screen appears before the menu options are meant to appear. Unfortunately I never get a error message so fault finding this is going to be slow.
Thanks for your help so far.

Could you get the same error if the HDD is set to UEFI? Also before updating the kernel, if it was working I’d check the previously working computer could still be imaged first.This should help to better focus on where to look?

No I don’t. I tried setting the menu timeout to 300 seconds so if it just wasn’t being displayed I would notice the increase in time before it booted to win8, but it made no difference.

Hi,
I’ve been using FOG for a few years, its a perfect tool for my lab environments. Yesterday I setup 2 DELL latitude tablets. These came with a dock that has a built-in NIC so I can add it to the LAN for imaging.
These tablets are Intel Atom CPU Z2760 @ 1.8GHz 32 bit
bios is upgraded to A06

When it PXE boots I get a Starting ipv4 PXE
IP 192.168.0.22
loaded file pxelinix.0
Succeeded NBP file.
It pauses for a while, then boots into win8.
I tried increasing the menu wait time to see if it had worked, but maybe no video, but that made no diff. I also made sure I had the latest kernel.
I don’t see any errors being logged in syslog.

Not sure what to try next.
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Kiba