Posts made by Paul Freeman

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 21069, member: 7271”]All,

I’m moving my compression medium to xz rather than lzma. Though lzma seems to work rather well, xz is much better. The other part of my reasoning, is lzma doesn’t seem to maintain the same compression across different versions of itself. Meaning, if I compress the init.gz using lzma version 4.2 on one system, and uncompress it on lzma 4.9, it uncompresses fine. Recompressing it causes issues though for some, unknown to me, reason. For that reason, as far as I can tell, xz has maintained the same methods of recompression and does a very good job (better than lzma). I’ve included xz reading into my kernel file, which will be a must.

Please test and see how you like it. As alway’s, gzip compression is still available, and I’m keeping lzma available in the kernel as well, but I did add xz to the kernel parameters.

Please test the kernel, and for those of you on 0.33b, feel free to play with the init.gz:

[url]https://mastacontrola.com/fogboot/images/init.gz[/url] <-- goes in default location of /tftpboot/fog/images/init.gz

[url]https://mastacontrola.com/fogboot/kernel/bzImage[/url] <-- goes in default location of /tftpboot/fog/kernel/bzImage

I’m not adding these things into a new revision yet, as I’ve yet to hear back whether the kernel works on the Lenovo T440(s/p/etc…).

I’ve minimized my kernel, and it seems to me the configuration looks much more similar (all be it, seemingly, with more options – besides the newer features of the kernels since 2010) to the kitchensink kernel configuration. However, this kernel (I’ve tested), natively recognizes VMWare SCSI Drives (Win 7) and hopefully recognizes all different types of motherboard chipsets. If compressed with gzip, it seems to be about 13 MB, compressed with LZMA is just shy of 6 MB, and with XZ is a little more than 5.5 MB in size.

With this latest kernel configuration, I’ve also added RAID utilities to it. It should recognize hardware raid controllers, though I don’t know how to tell for sure as I don’t have another system with a hardware RAID system, for those of you trying to image servers or something of that sort.

Ultimately, I’m trying to assist in building a kernel that works across the board. I haven’t, quite yet, figured out a method of imaging LVM systems (the default filesystem layout for CentOS – and many more I’m sure) though my default debian install seems to image just fine (I think that has an LVM based file system as well.)

I hope you all are enjoying the latest and greatest I’m attempting to put out there.[/quote]

I am not sure if you ever received a response regarding the T440, however I downloaded your latest kernel to my .32 server per [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ[/url] and I can confirm that the Lenovo T440 does work with this kernel. The t440 was one of the reasons I wanted to try out .33b.

Well after purging UFW and a reboot i get something slightly different when trying to boot a client. Rather than immediately stopping at the TFTP boot sequence the HP8300 pauses there for a minute as though its trying to connect. Though still does not connect…

The HP8000 still gives the same error.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 25142, member: 7271”]restart the service:
[code]sudo ufw disable
sudo service tftpd-hpa restart[/code][/quote]

I was restarting as per this post by Tom. I will remove the firewall and try again.

TFTP Is not enabled in the dnsmasq.conf or ltsp.conf. I think at this point I may reconfigure the machine. I did create a clone of the drive before installing fog so that i could roll back. Would you recommend that I just use eth0 to make the setup more straightforward?

Thank you both for your assistance.

Seems like i may have other issues going on. On boot the tftpd-hpa service is running but when i try to restart the service it hangs. When I get the status of the service it comes back as tftpd-hpa start/killed. Also after running ufw disable, the command completed successfully however upon a system reboot the firewall service is again active.

Yes this is correct I am using eth1. I have been looking through all this for so long and it never dawned on me that this would need to be changed in the default file. I definitely do not pretend to be an expert on linux and its various functions, but have been able to poke by so far.

Here is what my /var/log/syslog file reports for that last boot attempt.

[ATTACH=full]654[/ATTACH]

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/654_var log syslog.jpg?:”]var log syslog.jpg[/url]

Hmmm, made the change and still the same result.

Oh lol sorry.
HP 8000
[ATTACH=full]652[/ATTACH]

HP 8300
[ATTACH=full]653[/ATTACH]

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/652_hp8000.jpg?:”]hp8000.jpg[/url][url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/653_hp8300.jpg?:”]hp8300.jpg[/url]

I did follow the chainloading instructions under the link i provided earlier.

My /tftpboot folder:

fogadmin@FOG2:~$ ls /tftpboot/
boot.txt ipxe.krn pxelinux.0.old snponly.efi undionly.kpxe
default.ipxe memdisk pxelinux.cfg tftpboot vesamenu.c32
fogadmin@FOG2:~$ ls /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/
default default~ pxelinux.cfg

[ATTACH=full]650[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]651[/ATTACH]

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/648_default pxelinuxcfg.jpg?:”]default pxelinuxcfg.jpg[/url][url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/649_ltspconf.jpg?:”]ltspconf.jpg[/url][url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/650_default pxelinuxcfg.jpg?:”]default pxelinuxcfg.jpg[/url][url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/651_ltspconf.jpg?:”]ltspconf.jpg[/url]

Hi all. Ive been a long time fog user, i think since .27 and love the heck out of the software. I am trying to get .33b setup on a machine running Ubuntu 12.04.4. It is connected on an isolated network for testing using a simple linksys home router for the DHCP server and dnsmasq. When i boot up an HP 8300 elite client it is able to connect to my fog server but when it hits TFTP it stops and exits the boot agent immediately. When i do the same with an HP8000 elite i get the following:
TFTP.
PXE-T01: File not found
PXE-E3B: TFTP Error - File not found

I have verified that the TFTP server is running on the fog server and frankly i am stumped.

I’ve followed all of the instructions from [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Using_FOG_with_an_unmodifiable_DHCP_server/_Using_FOG_with_no_DHCP_server[/url]
and i have searched this forum extensively to see if i can solve my problem. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!