Posts made by michaeloberg

So I have an odd question, I can image 20 computer, after that the PXE server stops. I have to restore the FOG server from a backup to fix this, can you help?
Michael

Man thank you so much, we have our students save their files on SD cards and man does that screw with the mounting process for drives in FOG. Never even thought of that and my employee said today what if we take the card out, problem solved.

FIXED! There was SD cards in the Middle School Laptops, this was mounting the card as a drive in FOG SDA1, lesson learned!!! Please note that USB drives and SD cards will mess the images up if left in machines. Thanks for all of your help. THANK YOU THANK YOU.

Version 3511
I also did sudo chmod 777 /images
Not sure if that was setting the permissions correctly but is still not working.

First I want to thank everyone for their help on this forum. I was able to get my FOG updated and it resolved my issues with my new HP 745 G2 laptops. Now I have a different problem with my older HP 3125 laptops. Prior to the upgrade we have imaged these machines hundreds of times without issue. Now all of a sudden when I push an image task to a host, it will look like it is starting the image, then I get the following error:

Target partition size (7864 MB) is smaller than source (59009 MB). Use option –C to disable size checking (Dangerous).

So my next though was to manually wipe all partition on the targeted host. Same error as before after doing this. So my next thought was maybe the image is screwed up, so I loaded a clean version of Windows 7 on the laptop with drivers and uploaded that as a test image (only 10 GB). So now when I try to image it doesn’t even attempt to get to the nice blue screen where it tells you the error, rather it just runs through several lines of text and I notice some errors in different parts of the boot process but here they are:

Starting sshd: OK
/usr/share/fog/lib/funcs.sh: line 17: export: ‘Machines, DC=mydomain, DC=com: not a valid identifier
It gives me this error a few times then farther on get this one:
*Initializing /dev/sda with NTFS partition….error: /dev/sdb2: No such file or directory
Udevd[2768]: inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/sdb2,10) failed: No such file or directory
Error: /dev/sdb2: No such file or directory
Udevd[2768]: inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/sdb2,10) failed: No such file or directory
Done
Done
*Using Hard Disk /dev.sdb
*Erasing current MBR/CPT Tables………………………….Done
Awk: fatal: cannot open file ‘/images/234/d1.original.partitions’ for reading (No such file or directory)
Restoring Partition Tables (MBR)……………………………Done
No extended partitions……………………………………………Done

I have tested other images and they all seem to be working. Any suggestions???

Is there anything else we can try? I really need this image uploaded ASAP as I have 400 HP 745 G2 systems to load. Any further help is appreciated, I am open to any suggestions!
Michael

When I try to click on your link I get a page does not exist error message

Any ideas?

Dang your good, thank you so much so I have attached my error log!
error.log

So I downloaded WinSCP and was able to connect to the FOG server, but when I try to download the error.log file I get the attached error.

When I try to get the file from my windows box I get the attached error. I am sorry for all of this, I am new to FOG and Linux but am learning a lot from you guys. Thanks for your help:

Yep, sudo did it. Again, I am new to Linux, your help is greatly appreciated.
Michael

When I try to copy the error.log file to the TFTPBoot directory I get the following message:

OK I found my way how to navigate to the error.log, how to I obtain a copy of it so I can share that on here:

I don’t have a log directory after var.

So as mentioned earlier it won’t let us do a full host registration, when I do a quick host registration it say it did so, then see the attached picture, it just says attempting to send inventory…

We are a little worried about upgrading at this time, we have 1000 computers to reimage (our old ones and they are working) it is the 400 new ones that won’t do a full host registration, can anything think of a BIOS setting or something else I need to check in our existing environment to get this working??

HP 745 EliteBook

Sorry methods, not versions. Not sure if this helps at all but when I try to do a full host registration it fails, says attempting to send to inventory…

Never does.