Posts made by medchemii

Hi,
is there a way to capture not the entire disk but more than one partition ? I want to leave out one partition (which uses a lot of space but is updated less frequently). But in the web interface when creating a new image (with all image types) I can either select the entire disk or a single partition to image.

As a side note:
The image type description in the wiki (I got there from the balloon help: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Managing_FOG#Images) points to a non-existing page (404): https://docs.fogproject.org/en/latest/management/image-management.html

@thomGee I was thinking about exchanging refind too - but as I’m new to this whole overcomplex UEFI-rubbish (I was running my computerpool with legacy-PXE for 15 years without any problems but now manufacturer dropped this completely in favor of UEFI) I didn’t dare to open a new construction site on this place.

@george1421
Thanks for your answer. I tried EXIT (I’m running version 1.5.10 of FOG) and got into a “Boot-Fail-Menu”: F1 - Retry Boot; F2 Enter Setup; F3 … or the System Check right after deploying the image.

But … on the second Boot it worked and from thereon without problems !
Thank you very much - that helped a lot ! Step by step I’m getting closer to my new computerpool management system

Hi,
I’m trying to setup FOG for a 30 PC computer pool. I installed Ubuntu 22.04 and captured and deployed it successfully. Everything is working except for the automatic boot of the deployed System from the PXE-FOG-Menu (3 seconds timeout). It starts refind and GRUB comes up (like when directly starting from UEFI-BIOS). But then it panics with “Initramfs unpacking failed: Invalid magic at start of compressed archive” (see pictures). I can start the system directly (by changing Boot-order) but this is not what I want (because this would mean pressing F12 on each PC when deploying an image ;-( ).
It is a recent UEFI-system (Dell Optiplex 5090). UEFI-Boot ist the only option (no CSM-Boot available anymore).
It seems that it can’t find any harddisk at all, when coming from PXE (is the NVME not initialized from BIOS?)

Any hint ?