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netman86

These are both Asus A53E laptops. I deleted all partitions and did my own factory install.

I wound up running through this troubleshooting guide:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting_an_image_push_to_a_client

I learned that after dumping the MBR to the new box, my partition table was “invalid”- it doesn’t like my partition 5.
Once I deleted partition 5, I was able to go through with the rest of the steps and restore my partitions, sans #5. I’ve shrank that partition down by a couple gigs so it’s not touching the end of the device, and am making a new source image to try again and see if there’s some bug there.

FWIW, my partition layout looks like this:
1- 100M
2- 60GB
3- 208GB
4- (extended)
5- 30GB (now shrank to 25)

Is there a bug with extended partitions, maybe? For this purpose I need three usable partitions within the OS, and since we’re limited to three primary partitions and MS insists on that 100MB partition in the front, I think I’m stuck with it.

netman86

I’ve got two laptops, a source and a destination.
I’ve done the full registration on both laptops to the FOG server via PXE boot.

I created an “image” for the source, and assigned it to the source host, then created an upload task for that host.
Booted the source and it proceeded to run through a partclone process for a few hours.

Once complete, I assigned that same image to the destination host and booted it.
That laptop picked up the PXE boot, then rebooted a few seconds later. FOG managed to wipe its MBR, but didn’t run partclone at all.

I created another task for download-debug on the destination host and restarted it again, entered ‘fog’ at the prompt, and it ran through: (excuse the brevity, I’m typing this)

Looking for hard disks, Done
Press [Enter] key to continue.

Using hard disk /dev/sda
Press [Enter] key to continue.

Press [Enter] key to continue.

changing hostname done
updating computer database status

database updated
Press [Enter] key to continue.
task completed computer will restart

So what I’m seeing there is two sections where something was supposed to happen, but instead I got the “press enter to continue” immediately. I assume this is when the partclone process is supposed to run.

I’ve not been able to find any more errors or input on this one, so I’m scratching my head.

Running FOG 1.2.0 on ubuntu 14.04 64 bit