Posts made by mandrade

@Tom-Elliott,

Tried both like I said Rookie

@Tom-Elliott ,

Tried with external keyboard no diffrence.

@Tom-Elliott ,

I tried to follow this article but am unable to create the bootdisk. Granted I could be doing something wrong, I am a noob when it comes to Linux.

@Tom-Elliott ,

keyboard doesn’t seem to work. Yeah tried that!

Perhaps I should try connecting an external keyboard. Will give that a try and will get back to you.

@x23piracy ,

Because if I just pxe boot from the NIC directly I get:

I’m using the snponly.efi bootfile.

@Tom-Elliott said in Imaging Surface Pro 4 using Fog USB bootdisk:

working-1.3.5

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback. I was already running Version 1.3.5-RC-12.

Now I also seem to have corrupted my USB bootdisk You wouldn’t by any chance have an iso for me?

@Wayne-Workman ,

I assume these tutorials are out of date:

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6350/usb-boot-uefi-client-into-fog-menu-easy-way/12

and

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=USB_Bootable_Media

They’re not working for me. Granted I could be doing it wrong!

Thought as much. Now to try and figure out how to do this. Last time I was provided an iso. Anyway I’ll give that a try! Thanks

Hey Guys,

Imaging a Surface Pro 4 using a USB stick with FOG on it. I’m getting an error as can be seen in the attached image.

Any ideas why this could be? USB kernel outdated perhaps?

@george1421 ,

Hi, so after latest git update all is good. I can now capture my windows image without issue using the USB boot disk.

I must say I did experience the “Database Schema Installer / Updater Error” after the update. Found fix on the link below if any of you have this in the future:

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7766/after-update-to-latest-svn-5678-database-schema-installer-updater-error

Would be good to get those Onelink+ mini docks working though. Then again, I suppose beggars cant be choosers

Thanks again for all the help.

@george1421 ,

Ah, right ok. I’m still on version 7965! Will update and try again.

@george1421 ,

So the feedback is a follows. If I use the mini dock and boot from the USB drive, no dice. After asking around here I was told we had some USB 2.0 Lenovo ethernet adapters.

I decided try it, plugged it in to one of the USB ports. I then booted off the USB drive, and I now am able to get an IP, eth0 continues to be a problem but that’s ok I now get an IP assigned on eth1.

I started off by trying to inventory the machine. That worked fine, machine inventory success. However if I then try to image, I get the following error:

Fatal error:: Unknown Request Type:: Null

Ideas??

@george1421 ,

Thank you very much. Will give it a shot and will let you know how this went.

@george1421 ,

sure will give this a try. where would I place the img file, I assume on a USB drive?

@Sebastian-Roth ,

I built my own iPXE binary using the rom-o-matic.eu page and following the features that needed to be enabled on page https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/IPXE#rom-o-matic.eu

Now I see this:

Now it doesn’t even go as far, DHCP fails.

@Sebastian-Roth ,

I just tried your suggestion of using a mini dumb switch. This has not made any difference unfortunately.

Could also be a driver issue. The PXE boot off the mini dock seems to be a known problem:

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Enterprise-Client-Management/OneLink-Dock-No-Network-in-Windows-PE/td-p/3280897/page/2

The above forum is about a Lenovo Yoga and SCCM but the mini dock is the same. Same realtek driver. The Unix/Linux drivers availabled here:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=56&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

@Sebastian-Roth ,

I have thrown in the towel for now, seeing as there are only three laptops at this stage it should be ok.

So the full story is, there a two interfaces detected. An internal NIC which can be enabled/disabled by the BIOS(extends to USB dongle) and a second interface on the mini dock(The Realtek 8135 that was Mentioned).

The error device descriptor error comes up when the onboard NIC is enabled. As there is no USB dongle with an ethernet cable present we get device descriptor error. At least that’s my theory! Now, if I disable the onboard, and boot directly from the mini doc, it hangs intermittently. Sometimes on the bzImage and sometimes on the Init.xz. Believe it or not sometimes it goes all the way through but then eth0 was not detected.

Unfortunately these machines did not ship with the USB dongle. So I cannot test if that would work. I have also tried booting using a USB bootable drive but that also fails. I followed this document:

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=USB_Bootable_Media

@Quazz ,

That’s the thing, it’s a Onelink+ mini dock that I’m connecting with.

The there is also an onboard adaptor I assume is for the USB dongle.

@Sebastian-Roth ,

I’ve been messing around with the BIOS settings etc. I’ve managed to get the machine to get here: