Posts made by mandrade

@Tom-Elliott,

To be honest at this stage only tested the one host. The Idea was to first build an image to then image the other two, and subsequently others if and when they arrive. So at this point I was attempting to run an inventory to then capture that image in question.

I have an update though, if I unplug the dock and then re-plug it progresses through to the selection menu. However all the menu items are in red. Also running any of the items fails with an error. Saying “press ‘S’ for iPXE prompt or machine will reboot in 10 seconds”.

@Sebastian-Roth ,

Sure will see what I can do. Yep always at 55%.

Hi guys,

So the feedback is two fold. Success on the all in one ThinkCentre machines. We are now deploying without issue to those.

However, we have three and soon to be more Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbons to deploy. They have no onboard NIC and use an external Onelink+ Dock. I can PXE boot but when it starts loading the undionly.kpxe image it hangs.

Now I have tried boot to undionly.kkpxe and it gets further. However, it stop again at 55% as can be seen below:

The NIC is a Realtek USB RTL8135

Hey Guys,

So I’m now able to image my new machines, it works a treat!

In the end I decided to scrap attempting to build my own Kernel and went with a Trunk version of FOG. I am aware that it isn’t stable but after deploying the new bleeding edge version of FOG all my machines are supported and are imaging without any issue.

We’re about to do a bulk deploy of 21 Machines, will let everybody know how that went. Experiences thus far, although frustrating in the beginning, are good. Thanks again for all the help supplied.

@george1421 said in Make new bzImage...:

think you can just rename it as the default config then run menuconfig progra

I used the standard Kitchensink one that is available when you download FOG_1.2.0 so no I did not. I will give that a try.

Thank you very much for the suggestions and help thus far!

@george1421 ,

Right so, when I do a make menuconfig I could be missing a step somewhere that is not including the necessary controller drivers?

Also here are the results of the compatibility test:

Hi Guys,

so I have the subsys as requested in the screenshot below:

Sure can will have to be later on though at this stage I don’t have access to the machine. Important to note though, when I compile my kernel to version 4.6 and create my own bzImage file the network then works however FOG no longer can detect a HDD,

@Tom-Elliott said in Make new bzImage...:

C to get a valid

Correct george1421 exactly my intention.

First foremost thanks for the replies. Apologies for the lack of info but here’s what I have:

@george1421,

I am able to boot on the iPXE enabled NIC all the way to the FOG menu where you are can select whether to inventory the machine or perform a compatibility test. if I use the bzImage on https://fogproject.org/kernels/ as of 9 May 2016 and attempt compatibility test it fails on NIC but is passes on the disk. SO I guess the NIC drivers are required.

What I did was I downloaded Linux Kernel 4.6 thinking it could be because the kernel I had didn’t have support for this machine. I compiled the kernel all completed fine but this time I wasn’t able to see the disk however now the network drivers worked, go figure!

I have two machines I’m working one right now. The one I’m having problems with is below:

http://www3.lenovo.com/au/en/desktops-and-all-in-ones/all-in-one-pcs/ThinkCentre-X1/p/10JXCTO1WWENAU0?cid=au:cse:5hkwgw&istCompanyId=4cfbbd80-66d6-4bc7-b8ed-208db253ae0d&istItemId=qaliqtitp&istBid=xzxr

I haven’t started work on the other just yet so not quite sure what model it is.

@Sebastian Roth, I get two sets of errors, depends on which bzimage I’m using. If I use the bzImage from https://fogproject.org/kernels/ the NIC drivers are not loaded. If I compile my own kernel I have network connectivity but FOG is not able to detect a HDD.

Hey,

wondering if anyone could assist. I’ve downloaded fog have a series of machines to clone . I have installed fog 1.2.0 without issue on ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

I’ve been trying to create a new bzImage because the hardware I have is relatively new. I noticed there is a stable version 4.5 of the Linux kernel. I’ve attempted to use that to create my image. However I’m unable to boot from the pxe enabled NIC, I get a series of errors.

Noticed the latest bzImage available for download is from https://fogproject.org/kernels/ is as of 9 May 2016. This kernel does not have support for my NIC unfortunately. Any help would be greatly appreciated.