Sorry to re-open this thread, the steps above all work great but has anyone had any experience/issues with booting to OEM recovery partitions after deploying images? I have a Sony VAIO laptop here with an OEM recovery partition, which provides functionality to restore the laptop to factory settings.

I perform the same steps as above disabling secure boot, enable legacy boot, deploy image image, enable uefi boot, enable secure boot and it boots into Windows 8 perfectly. However, the built in F10 function to boot into the Sony recovery partition gives the winload.efi error 0xC0000225.

Anyone experienced the same issue?

If i need to re-post elsewhere or start a new thread please let me know.

Thanks
LA

Ok i have created the partitions using fdisk during debug mode, then retried the image process and am getting the same issue. Skips straight to ‘Task Complete’.

Also, the /bin/fog file was using partimage by default, i haven’t changed this. Using revision 1083.

Thanks
LA

Tom,

Just had a look into to bin/fog and found the section relating to the image type I’m using (mps), the process seems to be failing at some point between these commands when imaging to a blank HDD. I’ve attached the relevant section in a text file for you.

My guess is at lines 32 to 42 in the attached, unless Partprobe cannot read the partition table on line 28 (though ‘Checking hard disks’ returns ‘Done’). It seems to skip everything after line 30 right down to line 89 for ‘Task Complete’.

Can you see anything that would prevent the blank HDD from being partitioned correctly? I’m at a loss currently!

Thanks
LA

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/478_fog_mps.txt?:”]fog_mps.txt[/url]

Still the same after update to revision 1083 unfortunately. Skips the partimage process and goes to task complete. I have been trying to find which file deals with the partitioning but unsure.

Thanks
LA

Correct - brand new drive that hasn’t been initialized. Working on FOG rev 1016, so I can upgrade to latest revision and try that if there have been fixes with partitioning since. Will give that a go and let you know.

Thanks!
LA

Hi!

This may not be a bug as such, but more of a request for help on a Windows 8 deployment issue I’m having in fog 0.33 during testing. Hope that’s ok!

I have successfully uploaded an image of a Windows 8 laptop (disabled secure boot and changed to legacy BIOS before upload), however I swap out the hard drive for a brand new blank disk, but when i deploy the image (again, secure boot disabled and legacy BIOS) the task completes instantly following the ‘Checking Hard Disks’ section of the deploy process. It passes the ‘Restoring MBR’ section, then passes the ‘Checking Hard Disks’ section and comes back with ‘Task Completed’ instantly, no image progress screen.

I’m guessing this is because the new disk is not pre formatted/partitioned, but i assumed FOG would take care of that from the existing image that i uploaded?

Can anyone please confirm for me?

Many Thanks
LA

yeah sure no worries, thank you!

Thanks/Br
LA

In the dashboard go to FOG Configuration > FOG Settings

Under the ‘Plugin System’ heading, change the FOG_PLUGINSYS_ENABLED option from 0 to 1 and hit save. You should then see a cog icon in the dashboard that links to the plugin page.

It’s when you click the Installed or activate plugin links the error pops up.

Thanks/Br
LA

Hi,

Firstly thanks for all the hard work on this, 0.33 seems to be coming along nicely!

I’m currently playing about 0.33B Rev 925 on Ubuntu 12.04, and the Plugin Management page isn’t working yet. When you click ‘Activate Plugin’ (or ‘Installed Plugin’) you get:

[B]“FOG DEBUG: FOGPageManager: Class: PluginManagementPage, Method: activate, Error: Method not found in class, defaulting to index()”[/B]

I noticed a previous post about the same issue a few pages back, but doesn’t seem like anyone responded. Is anyone working on a fix for this yet? The capone plugin is a massive help for me and I’d love to give it a run in 0.33.

Thx/Br
LA