Posts made by rball01

From what we can tell, the problem we are having now is that the USB NIC (SABRENT NT-USB2.0) is not being loaded correctly when FOG is starting. We tried downloading the newest linux driver for it and dropping in to a custom kernel build, but it didn’t seem to help.

Similar to this thread, but with a different model:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/realtek-8153-usb-network-adapter.10302/[/url]

We will try Tom’s kernels and see if they help at all, but if anyone has any suggestions on this USB NIC, they are appreciated.

Thanks - Rob

The good news is that when we try to do the host inventory, even though we can’t actually get it registered, it does tell us the disk is being recognized

[quote=“d4rk3, post: 46641, member: 23583”]For the record, the ONLY way I was ever able to hit the Partclone screen/pull inventory was by setting the Host Primary Disk to:

/dev/mmcblk0

I tried /dev/mmcblk, mmcblk, mmcblk0, etc and that’s the only one that’s ever worked for me.

Hopefully this can help save you some time/headaches :)[/quote]

Were you able to successfully register the host, or did you use manual registration?

It looks like the issue is now very similar to this one:

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/uploading-an-image-from-partition-layout-dev-mmcblk0.11783/[/url]

I don’t want to cross post on both, so I will ask, how do I set the “Host Primary Disk” to mmcblk? That’s probably the next step to try in getting this thing going.

Edit I was thinking about this too hard, was just told its a menu option. We will give it a shot.

In the meantime, I’ll try the kernels that Tom had linked in that thread to see if there is any difference. We have tried to build a custom kernel with all the mmc options checked, but did not seem to change anything.

Hi Wayne,

Most of the steps we’ve taken are on the first page of the thread, in summary:

Used the latest Trunk/SVN - fixed the loading issue with bg.png
Pointed Windows Server DHCP options at ipxe.efi - got us to the FOG menu
Replaced the original versions of of init.xz and bzimage with the 32 bit versions (deleted and renamed) - stopped the menu from looping back to itself and appeared to actually load FOG

At this point the roadblock is that we get to host registration (as mentioned above), the errors are thrown, and FOG reports no Hard disk found

This may or may not be related to the issue that if we choose Host Information - the USB port seems to have stopped functioning and we lose keyboard/network access

We are downloading the latest trunk now (looks like it was just updated) to see if that affects anything

We deleted init.xz and bzimage and renamed init_32.xz and bzimage_32 to them in /var/www/fog/service/ipxe

This got us a little further

We got to the Host Information menu, but then we lose all USB functionality, including the ethernet dongle and keyboard, so we can’t get any further on that screen either.
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When we select Host Registration we get some errors and it appears to fail to find a storage device, errors pictures are attached:
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Thanks for all your assistance

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1928_20150427_131348.jpg?:”]20150427_131348.jpg[/url][url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1929_20150427_131404.jpg?:”]20150427_131404.jpg[/url]

If it helps we were able to boot into Ubuntu Linux 64 bit Desktop on the Venue Pro 8 by following this article

[url]http://www.jfwhome.com/2014/03/07/perfect-ubuntu-or-other-linux-on-the-asus-transformer-book-t100/[/url]

and changing the resolution from [SIZE=15px][FONT=Monaco][COLOR=#656565]1368x768e to 800x1280e[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

Good morning, here is the video capture of the FOG menu behavior. Sorry it is sideways, not sure what the phone was doing. Wasn’t able to upload the MOV file, so you will have to download and change extension to MOV.

Thanks,
Rob

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1926_IMG_0595.txt?:”]IMG_0595.txt[/url]

Thanks, I will get a video capture first thing Monday morning and upload. I really appreciate the help, and I love FOG btw, killer product

Thanks Wayne, I think the issue is with bzimage and/or init.xz since I am seeing the FOG menu, but to be honest I don’t know what they are or if they are 32 bit

I think my ipxe issues may have been solved in the current trunk

I am hoping Tom will have a suggestion on where i can look for clues, I can post a video if it helps

Thanks again for your suggestions and help

We see the menu, but the different options are just looping back to the menu as described above

Ok, we are making progress, so far we see the FOG menu now, and we can select boot to hard disk and that works.

but selecting any other option we first get two lines of text:
/bzimage
/init.xz…OK

then it cycles back to the menu. Selecting any option other than boot to hard disk after that shows

/init.xz…OK

Then back to the menu again and repeat

FOG does not seem to be honoring the FOG_PXE_MENU_TIMEOUT (always 3) and FOG_QUICKREG_AUTOPOP either - not sure if this is due to using SVN/Trunk

Thanks again for your help

Ok, is there a certain file or group of files I should update, or is there a compiled install for trunk? Do I need to compile from source and reinstall?

And thank you for your reply Tom, I really appreciate your help

EDITI found the SVN on the Wiki, we are building another server to test

Thanks,
Rob

Sure, how do I do that?

Also, I got this back from the iPXE IRC if it helps.

[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Consolas] topazdemon: it seems as though you don’t have PNG support enabled via IMAGE_PNG in general.h[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Consolas][11:24] <mcb30> Even if you did enable it, there’s no support for graphical framebuffers in UEFI iPXE yet[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Consolas][11:24] <mcb30> so you won’t be able to display the .png[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Consolas][11:25] <topazdemon> ok, could that cause all subsequent activity to fail?[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Consolas][11:25] <[COLOR=red]mcb30[/COLOR]> topazdemon: yes; iPXE scripts will exit on error[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Consolas][11:26] <mcb30> If you want a specific script line to ignore errors, you have to indicate how errors should be handled[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Consolas][11:26] <mcb30> e.g. “console -p bg.png ||”[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Consolas][11:26] <mcb30> would say to ignore errors[/FONT][/COLOR]

OK, progress is good. We re-downloaded the i386 efi files from the sourceforge trunk tftp folder and deleted the old ipxe.efi just to be safe.

The new one seems to be working much better, maybe a copy error before?

Now the error is different, see the attached picture. Looks like maybe UEFI [32 bit] binary is not there? or iPXE can’t understand the menu[ATTACH=full]1923[/ATTACH]

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1923_fog error uefi 32 boot.png?:”]fog error uefi 32 boot.png[/url]

Ok, no legacy option on these unfortunately, even with safe boot turned off.

I did get on IRC with the iPXE channel, and they gave me a 32 bit ipxe.efi which I dropped into the tftp folder. It was able to get to the iPXE prompt I am familiar with. The file is attached, just change the extension to .efi

So next question is, is there a 32 bit efi binary that is programmed for FOG? It doesn’t seem to be an EFI issue, but rather a 32 vs 64 bit efi binary issue.

Thanks,
Rob

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1921_ipxe.txt?:”]ipxe.txt[/url]

Thanks for your reply Wayne,

I have pointed DHCP at all the efi files you mentioned, and intel.efi, also undionly.kpxe.INTEL as I saw suggested in another forum on another site. No dice.

I changed all the permissions to the same as the undionly.kpxe file. Before that, I actually got an error message about reading the TFTP file or something, flashed very quickly. It seems like it gets the file now, but just ignores it.

Updated the firmware “bios” to latest revision “A10”. Unfortunately, still only 32bit.

I also tried plugging up to clonezilla, and it gets a tiny bit futher:

“Succeed to download NBP. Getting Cached packet. My IP is xx.xx.xx.xx”, then just hangs forever.

At this point, looking at WDS as a bandaid until I can get it working with FOG.

Hello,

I am running FOG 1.2.0. I am able to successfully deploy to several different types of machine and I have the DHCP options set in my windows DHCP server to point to the undionly.kpxe file in the tftp server.

When I tried to PXE boot my dell venue pro 8 (32 bit UEFI), it “succeeded to download NBP”, then continues on to the next boot device.

On the server side, in syslog I see some “client does not accept options” messages.

I tried the suggestions that I have seen around the internet of moving the efi files into /tftpboot/ and restarting the service. I had no luck with any of them when I configured the DHCP server to point at them. Is there anything I can do?

Thanks for any help you can provide,

Rob

UPDATE: After I clicked Post it dawned on me that Symantec endpoint protection could be blocking the service. I uninstalled and now it seems to be working correctly. SEP12 didn’t like it I guess. If I find anything else, I’ll post.

Hello everyone,

I searched for this in this forum and saw similar issues, but not this one.

Despite having the printer manager turned on at the server and client side, when I try to refresh printers from the FOG tray, I get [B]“FOG::PrinterManager service is not running”[/B] in the FOG log.

All the other addins seem to be working, host name is updated, it is joined to the domain, but that service in particular doesn’t want to work.

I am running the latest version of FOG on an Ubuntu 12.04.4 desktop, and the client is a 64 bit Windows 7 Intel NUC.

So far I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, both with “run as administrator” and without. I have also tried changing the service to log on as a domain admin, but this didn’t seem to help.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Rob