[quote=“Jose Antonio Sanchez, post: 35969, member: 25349”]I could not get Ubuntu to PXE boot with network access, it doesn’t see any network cards… Ubuntu Live takes a while to boot on a 100MB network too…

The ethtools… I’ll give it a try…

DebugMode does show the Link Speed as it boots:

e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None

I learned that you can Shift + PgUp to scroll back into the boot time messages…[/quote]

Yeah ran into the same problem, here’s my solution on Ubuntu:
sudo dhclient eth0

[quote=“Jose Antonio Sanchez, post: 35934, member: 25349”]Is there a way to display Link Speed? 10Mbit 100Mbit 1000Mbit??
Or is there a very light boot disk that can do it???

I looked over at the ipxe.org site and could not find anything on link/media speed…

Any ideas???

Having this info helps reduce the time figuring out which PC is the bad one when there is very slow multicast…[/quote]

I usually live boot ubuntu then test from speedtest.net.

Also can break the group into smaller groups, then test multicast speed, determine which group is slower, repeat until you only have a few computers to test.

I had to troubleshoot a lab of 60 computers and that’s how I did it. Not super elegant unfortunately.

It might also be possible to boot into debug mode and run a few linux commands like ethtools to see link speeds.

[quote=“Jose Antonio Sanchez, post: 35737, member: 25349”]/images as in the same as where the computer images get stored and therefore that’s where my /ubuntu folder should be at
[/quote]
That one.

/var… is boot_url and web directory
/images is where the rest of your images are stored. that should have a fully extracted ubuntu dvd in a directory there. i

set boot_url [url]http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe[/url]
set boot_nfs 128.104.71.88:/images

So I no longer think Multicast not working on CentOS 7 is related to a database issue. Tested by importing a functional Centos 6.5 Fog 1.2 database to the CentOS 7 install of fog and updating the users privileges. Anybody got any ideas?

[quote=“Jose Antonio Sanchez, post: 35731, member: 25349”]madskillz23,

Did you get Ubuntu 14.04 to boot??

I extracted all the files from the ISO and put them into /images/ubuntu14041/ and it tries to boot but I get the “(initramfs) Unable to find a live file system on the network” message…[/quote]

I am pretty sure these work. Let me know if they don’t though and I should be able to find the backup copy of the arguments.
[CODE]:Xubuntu14
kernel ${boot_url}/xubuntu14.04/casper/vmlinuz.efi root=/dev/nfs/ boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=${boot_nfs}/xubuntu14.04/
initrd ${boot_url}/xubuntu14.04/casper/initrd.lz
boot

:Ubuntu14
kernel ${boot_url}/ubuntu14.04/vmlinuz.efi vga=normal boot=casper netboot=nfs fetch:${boot_url}/ubuntu/casper/filesystem.squashfs nfsroot=${boot_nfs}/ubuntu14.04/
initrd ${boot_url}/ubuntu14.04/initrd.lz
#imgargs
boot[/CODE]

Here are the lines neccesarry to make NFS work in the install script. Could use the same selector template for rhel 7 versions as the code above in NFS, but it might be better to generalize something.
[CODE] systemctl restart nfs-server.service >/dev/null 2>&1;
systemctl restart rpcbind >/dev/null 2>&1;
systemctl enable rpcbind >/dev/null 2>&1;
systemctl enable nfs-server.service 2>&1;[/CODE]

Here’s the code to fix the installer for MySQL in all redhat based distros. I tested it on my own system and it should work.
Still stuck on getting multicast working.
[CODE]ConfigureMySql()
{
echo -n " * Setting up and starting MySQL…";
RHVER=rpm -qa|grep release|xargs rpm -q --queryformat '%{VERSION}'|cut -c -1;
if [ “$RHVER” == “7” ];
then
systemctl enable mariadb.service >/dev/null 2>&1;
systemctl restart mariadb.service >/dev/null 2>&1;
else
chkconfig mysqld on;
service mysqld restart >/dev/null 2>&1;
service mysqld status >/dev/null 2>&1;
fi
if [ “$?” != “0” ];
then
echo “Failed!”;
exit 1;
else
echo “OK”;
fi
}[/CODE]

Its probably a problem with your DHCP config. The boot filename should not be pxelinux.0, it should be undionly.kpxe. I just setup another fog server using CentOS 6.5 today and there are no quirks with that distro.

For all images run:

[CODE]mkdir /images/IMAGE_NAME

mv /images/dev/IMAGE_YOU_JUST_UPLOADED/* /images/IMAGE_NAME

chmod 777 /images/IMAGE_NAME[/CODE]

This is a bandaid that will allow you to image right now, it doesn’t fix the root of the problem.