I started a fog server build for a client and this time around i got stuck again on the default.ipxe timeout.

I was able to tftp the default.ipxe file from windows and so i restarted the tftpd-hpa daemon, rebooted my laptop, and it started imaging.

I added this to my notes for next time (grabbed from somewhere else online)

[FONT=Calibri] [FONT=Microsoft JhengHei UI][COLOR=#7f7f7f][SIZE=3]tftpd-hpa starts “to early”. You can fix this by editing the /etc/rc.local and add the line[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT]

[COLOR=#7f7f7f][FONT=Microsoft JhengHei UI][SIZE=3]/bin/sleep 30 && /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa restart[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]

You sir are correct!!

Thanks Much!!

I remember years ago always choosing the Inter adapters over the PCnet Fast ones (forgot what the initial headache was) and most of my VM’s have the intel adapter, but i forgot to change this one (and one other).

And just like that it’s uploading the image!! Many Thanks!!

-Paul

Apologies if this is a repost, but I’ve searched a bit and this issue only seemed to come up previously and has been fixed with a login shell being created for the tftp user account. My issues seemed to be resolved another way and i thought i would try to share what I did.

This is what i was seeing before the fix:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Q2AXpr6.png[/IMG]

I saw somewhere that the tftp root was pointing to /var/lib/tftpboot and i saw that the PXE loader was having trouble finding the default.ipxe file so i made a symlink to the file in the other tftpboot folder (not /tftpboot)

root@p9:/tftpboot# cd /var/lib/tftpboot
root@p9:/var/lib/tftpboot# ln -s /tftpboot/default.ipxe default.ipxe

This is what happened after i made the fix:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/nVsGnzu.png[/IMG]

I probably should have changed the default tftpboot folder to /tftpboot but it looks like it’s finally seeing the boot.php script… which is a step up as I’ve been trying to get this to work for about a solid 20 hours now.

I also read that 14.04 is not really recommended yet, but I read this after i hit the 15 hour mark and I’m not sure i want to download Ubuntu 13 and start again.

Anyway - i thought this may help anyone else also trying to get fog to work on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Off to search for any /bzImage32 … 50% posts!

-Paul

EDIT:

my tftp server looks like it has the right home folder, so I’m wondering how that even worked…

root@p9:/tftpboot# cat /etc/default/tftpd-hpa

/etc/default/tftpd-hpa

FOG Modified version

TFTP_USERNAME=“root”
TFTP_DIRECTORY=“/tftpboot”
TFTP_ADDRESS=“0.0.0.0:69”
TFTP_OPTIONS=“-s”