Posts made by nicholasrudd

Well I have it working with a USB, after about 30mins to a 1hour of messing around :). @Tom-S that method of making a USB does worked however Mac Boot just kept bouncing (I think this is a Lion issue, but I am trying to upgrade to El Capitan), just make sure that if the USB is made manually that it is formatted Mac OS X journaled not FAT (learn from your mistakes), but I would like to that in the wiki like @Wayne-Workman stated.
However I did figure out a few things,

1. When iPXE gets stuck at “ipxe initialising devices” you need to

• Unplug ethernet cord

• Reboot the system holding alt

• Press the Efi Boot, USB/Partition

• Plug ethernet back in.

2. Your FOG server needs to have only one interface (at boot up) otherwise it will stall at trying to receive tftp ipxe.efi file (I knew this from just playing around with trunk)

3. Macs are a pain compared to the ThinkPads we have

4. Dont use a USB to ethernet device, doesn’t help at all

5. Even with those new setting in the dhcp file, you still will not see the dhcp server when you hold alt, I eventually said screw-it and gave up after I saw that the USB worked

Overall thanks, and I aprecieate all your help!

One word: WebUI, Does Clonezilla have that? Nope, Does Windows Have that? Nope. Does FOG have it? Yep
Also i was turned away from clonezilla because it is not very professional with all the foreign writing on it, and WDS is not opensourse and only support Windows.
And my last point FOG is easy to setup, easier than samba in most cases, unlike clonezilla which is not extremely automated

Ok upgraded to trunk and after bless the computer it boots into iPXE, which if fine for now, however the fog server does not show up when I hold alt, do I need to re-use those settings from that old article (using DNSmasq)?

@Wayne-Workman Thanks for your reply, I am using 1.2.0 (I think that is the newest version). I will take a look at trunk

@Sebastian-Roth here is a screen shot of what i see, I do not know why blessing did not work (unless the tftp server is different than the FOG server), no errors just boots as if nothing happened, I also reset the PRAM/NVRAM(?) thinking that it was stuck (I have had this happen on Lion with Windows install USBs) however no joy.

Hello,
I am trying to boot some 2010 Macbooks 7,1 to image with FOG, its been a rocky start though. I have not been able to get the Macbooks (running Lion at the current moment) to boot via Netbook/PXE. It shows up when I hold alt however after clicking on it, it boots into the hard disk. I have following the directions found here https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOG_on_a_MAC using the fancy method and also the DNSMasq, blessing the mac does not work either. Any suggestions?