I am currently working on a bank of 60 Dell 390’s and am coming upon about 6-8 machines that will not boot to the FOG screen for ‘quick registration’. This is after I go through the ‘set to NIC’ through BIOS. These machines have never been entered into my FOG listing.

I do have network access.

I have tried to do a basic WIN 7 install to wipe the HD and then , after changing to NIC of course, tried to capture the FOG screen for registration. But once again the boot goes straight to Windows skipping the fog screen. I also in both instances never get a MAC address.

The only option I see now is to do a complete OS/ App install on all these machines…

any ideas…?

thanks in advance…!!

‘My goal is to make an image for a particular brand and model of laptop that is as complete as possible (drivers and software) so I can blast it out to student laptops as quickly as possible and have as little to do after imaging as possible.’

I’m the same , I really don’t have the time to create and run scripting , and also have little time to tweak and R&D . My FOG install runs well just as long as I don’t get off the reservation too much. I think my Dell 390’s , 9010’s and all of my laptops are requiring more TLC than I realize.

Yes , I too have 700+ machines and am going through reimaging issues. I agree that sysprep appears to be overkill or unnecessary for FOG. After using FOG, which I inherited, for the last year it seems I am running into more and more issues that has me concerned whether or not FOG is worth the trouble; but then again I have nothing else to try.

thanks

Although your response is somewhat a mixed message about sysprep :

[I]“However I receive mixed signals on where it is entirely required with FOG imaging.[/I]
[I]I have a walkthrough I have been working on for my co-workers who have yet to even set up a fog server, so it’s probably a huge waste of time but I could let you take a look at it as it details the sysprep process with FOG 0.32 very well if you are interested.”[/I]

I’ll try anything once and some things twice.

Kinda funny cus my current 390 image is reporting almost 300gb

WIN7 only, Version .32, and frankly I hate to admit it but I haven’t found enough info on sysprep to learn how to use it.

I have gone ahead and just forced an upload just to see what happens but currently with a Dell 390 image it is taking about 1 hour and 20 minutes, whereas most of my images take no longer that 25 min.

I also have an issue with ‘disk information’ on the Dashboard not updating (just continues to loop) which makes me wonder if I have already exceeded my 1tb , which goes into the issue if this is causing my 390 image to take so long , which then goes to the FogPrep thing, and blaa, bla, blaaaaa…

thanks for the response!!

All of my Dell laptops: E5410, E6400 and my new E6430s will not domain.

Imaging goes according to plan, but they still won’t domain .

I do not have this issue for the most part with my old Dell desktops: OptiPlex 755, 380’s, 750, 745’s; although I am seeing it with my new Dell AIO9010’s.

any thoughts…thanks in advance.

Well after many searches for tftpboot and [B]/pxelinux.cfg/ [/B]they are both MIA. If you are speaking of the FOG server then that maybe another matter. still lost…

I am getting the following during FogPrep. This is happening on my Dell AIO 9010, and 390’s.

[ATTACH=full]326[/ATTACH]

any ideas? Thanks!

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/326_Capture.PNG?:”]Capture.PNG[/url]

OK , I found this but it makes little sense to me.

[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Boot_looping_and_Chainloading[/url]

Can someone give some exact details as to where these files are ?

thanks

Computer : Dell 390

After changing BIOS to NIC, and going through Quick Registration, the machine continues to constantly loop through reboot then FOG screen over and over.

This is of course prior to running FogPrep.

Machine is disconnected from the domain. The only thing that prevents this behavior is changing BIOS back to HD; which kind of defeats the purpose .

thanks in advance !!