@lostitguy Do you have any USB devices connected. If yes, then I suggest you disconnect all if possible or use different USB ports and try again.

@lostitguy We you will need to make up your own fog ipxe menu to specifically call the wipe function.

I am not 100% sure I have the stanza right but it should look like this

Menu Item: fog.wipeit
Description: FOG builtin Disk Eraser Tool
Parameters:
kernel tftp://${fog-ip}/bzImage
initrd tftp://${fog-ip}/init.xz
imagargs bzImage initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=256000 ip=dhcp web=${fog-ip}/fog/ consoleblank=0 loglevel=4 mode=wipe wipemode=full
imgfetch init.xz
boot ||
goto MENU
Menu Show with: All Hosts

If you ALWAYS want to wipe before a deploy in one step that is also possible but you will need to “hack” the fog deploy script to include the shred command. That is a bit more complicated than creating a fog ipxe menu, but modifying the fog deploy script is not that difficult either. There are just more steps involved.

@lostitguy not in the way you’re thinking but yes kind of.

Essentially it rewrites the partition tables (which effectively wipes the drive completely). Once the partition table is written it then block by block writes the image to the disk.

@lostitguy From what you describe it’s iPXE pulling the wrong MAC address. To get this fixed you’d need to contact those people: https://ipxe.org/contact

The quick workaround you can take is booting this particular machines via USB: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7727/building-usb-booting-fos-image

@lostitguy it seems your dhcp is set to 192.168.1.220 but your fog ui is presenting 192.168.100.2?

Did an ip address change?

You’ll likely need to update the storage node ip and web address.