Posts made by mabarton

@george1421 I’m working on this.
rEFInd would not install correctly. I am troubleshooting it now.

@george1421 I still have the chainloading failure. You’re right, I have been on vacation. When I am back, I will run the commands you gave me to see if it picks up the M.2. I appreciate the help.

@george1421 it has deployed beautifully-- with the exception of the boot looping:)

I am working in the rEFInd, so we shall see if it works.

Thank you for the support!

@Tom-Elliott I fear that I would not be much help, but I rarely give up!

The deployment worked!!! I think I am going to have a party to celebrate the end of an entire week of battling this problem. I may be able to leave the school at a decent hour next week!! If it were not for this forum and all of your help, I don’t know what I would have done.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Tom, Wayne, and George. Your help and expertise have been immensely appreciated!

@Tom-Elliott Our computers go out to students living anywhere in Kansas, so I don’t get to use all of the benefits of Fog. Since the computers are not in my area, I always shut off PXE boot. Our brick-and-mortar uses iPads, primarily.

However, our school belongs to a network of schools called “Teen” and I am hoping to introduce Fog to those schools and a few others in our area. This is Kansas after all, and they don’t like giving schools money.

@Tom-Elliott said in Chainloading failure: Toshiba Tecra C40-C UEFI & Samsung SSD MZNLF128HCHP-000:

@mabarton I think, however, this would be the perfect time to learn how to configure rEFInd to enable booting to actually happen without a problem.

I am googling that now.

@mabarton So, is there a way that I can force the computers to shut down after the imaging process is complete? I am going to deploy this image to 100 computer and I don’t want them to boot loop until I get back to work.

@Tom-Elliott
That is excellent news! All of the other computers I have imaged with Fog have been legacy and HDD, and all of their images were almost the same size as the drive. That was why I was so concerned with the size/chainloading error.

Thank you, Tom. So, the chainloading error is more of a nuisance than a problem.?

@mabarton So, I am looking at the image of a 128gb SSD and it shows that the image is 460 mib. I am going to deploy this image to see what happens.

My concern is that the chainloading error means that Fog is not able to boot the SSD and so it is imaging something else???

@Wayne-Workman I use sudo su and sudo -i, but I have never used /root because when I use ls I see nothing in /root.

You guys make my head explode. Lol

It amazes me the amount of knowledge both of you have about Fog. Someday, I hope to have a fraction of that knowledge.

I will be at the school in about 2 hours and will check if the image uploaded.

Another question…does it matter where you install Fog and its subsequent updates? For example, do you have to be in /root or can you be in / or another location?

I ask this because I see reference to
/root/ fogproject, and I either do not have access to /root or nothing exists in the directory. Also, I am concerned that I messed up the install and that is the reason I am having this issue.

@george1421 said in Chainloading failure: Toshiba Tecra C40-C UEFI & Samsung SSD MZNLF128HCHP-000:

@Wayne-Workman I guess I have to ask a silly question, why is it trying to use the /home/fog directory for image capture? That’s a bit unusual.

I am uncertain because before it used a location that was /images.

I did a sudo apt-get remove and wonder if it deleted some directories/repositories??? Is that possible?

@george1421 I began an image upload last night at 11:00 but I had to go home. I am at a swim meet now but I will go to the school and check after and let you know.

I want to thank you and everyone for you helping in solving my problem.

@Wayne-Workman

I have not changed my Fog server’s IP.

@Wayne-Workman said in Chainloading failure: Toshiba Tecra C40-C UEFI & Samsung SSD MZNLF128HCHP-000:

If you go to a web browser and visit:
X.x.x.x/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=mac:with:colons

What do you get? Copy/paste. Replace Xs with fog ip and the mac with colons with the problem computers mac.

I will do that tomorrow after my kids swim meet. Sorry for the late reply. I had to get my kids and head home.
Thank you, Wayne, for all of your help.

Here is something interesting.

I am able to image the computer with Clonezilla.

Right now I am attempting to deploy the image to a different computer.

@Wayne-Workman

With menu off

@Wayne-Workman
Fixed the upside down issue

Working on the config change.

@Wayne-Workman I’m aware. Even when I flip them, they come in upside down. Its fun:(

@Wayne-Workman