Posts made by sarge_212

@george1421 Success!! USB 2.0 adapter works, it gets an IP from the DHCP server! Awesome. I think the problem now is the chainloading bit. Let me know where you guys get, thanks!

@george1421 I do have a 2.0 USB ethernet adapter. I’ll try that next and see if I can get an IP. I am using the dock with it so hopefully that’ll boot the kernel debug usb stick while the ethernet USB adapter is in the surface’s single usb port. I’ll report when I have deets. Thanks!

@sarge_212 It doesn’t look like its getting an IP from the DHCP server.

@george1421 Cool. Give me just a few moments and I’ll boot the debug stick and let you know if I do have an IP. I thought I remembered getting one previously, but I’ll check now to just be sure. Thanks!

@george1421 I can understand all the commotion. I can boot the pro 4 with fog client debug from the USB stick. How do I boot into UEFI mode? Not quite sure how to do that from the debug USB stick. When I try to UEFI boot from the surface it gets the ipxe.efi but then hangs when I go to “perform full host registration and inventory.” If there is a way to UEFI boot from the USB stick, I don’t know it so any help is appreciated.

I did try this with the default kernels I had before all this and it looks like it still won’t work with uefi. Are there any commands that would be helpful that I could run in the fog debug environment?

@Tom-Elliott Did that. Interesting to note – I ipxe efi booted the Optiplex 9020. I get the registration menus without any background (as expected) then it gets to the point where it kernel panics (same point the surface is getting stuck on) This is on FOG 1.2.0 with the regular 1.2.0 kernels (4.1.2 I believe). I may test on the previous kernel I was on before all of this and try that or try it on the new trunk kernels I pulled from a trunk fog install a few days ago. I’ll do some testing and let you know.

Just FYI, I had to manually make the grub.cfg file. Running grub-install on an ubuntu box didn’t make the grub.cfg file as expected.

@george1421 Just FYI – Tried ipxe efi booting a Dell Optiplex 9020. It gets some what into it and then errors with an iPXE error:

tftp://10.x.x.x/default.ipxe… ok
http://10.x.x.x/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php...ok
http://10.x.x.x/fog/service/ipxe/fogbg.png …ok
Could not configure console: Error 0x7f4ce08e (http://ipxe.org/7f4ce08e)
could not boot: error (same error)

Chainloading failed, hit ‘s’ for the iPXE shell: reboot in 10 seconds

Anyway…that’s that.

@george1421 I can certainly try it. I have some old hardware but not sure what to test on. We have several generations of Dell Latitudes if that could be of use. E6420, E6430 and the like. We also are using optiplex 9020s in our environs so I can test on those. Isn’t it possible to switch from BIOS to UEFI as well in the setup of the dell systems? I’ll have a look at that. So basically I’ll do the following:

EFI boot to see what happens on a system if it is the same behavior as the surface

I’ll check to see if the hand off works but I will need to switch back the kernels to the trunk kernels. || sidenote: when I needed to image a machine for whatever reason, the new kernels{bzImage, bzImage32, init.xz, init_32.xz}, didn’t work. I got some errors imaging with the new kernels on the 1.2.0 fog (it’s that bad karma of mixing kernels) I’m toying with the idea of creating another FOG server for TRUNK version to see what it would do and how I could image from that. However, for now I’ll mess with the UEFI settings and see how far I get.

Cool. I’m ready to run some command-fu on this thing and provide output as needed.

@george1421

No worries at all on helping out. I’m glad to provide some help in the development of FOG. FOG is a great tool and we love using it in our environment, and it really rocks, as do you gents!

So,

It booted and gave a FOG menu with some items to choose from. This is further than I’ve got in a while. Here is a shot of what it looks like:

Okay – here is the output of both the 32-bit and 64-bit debug kernel mode selections:

error: no suitable video mode found.
Booting to blind mode
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Is there a way for me to make the debugging go on no video mode? It isn’t accepting keyboard input at this point so I think it stops here.

I can however hit “c” at the boot menu and get to grub command shell. If there is anything there I can run to provide insight, I’d be more than happy to do so.

Here is the dmesg output:

0_1453846418443_dmesg.txt I’m testing the FOG debugging tool now and seeing if it will boot.

@Sebastian-Roth I am in the process of making a live debug fog usb stick now. I’ll let you guys know of the status when I get there. Thanks for all the help so far!

Okay FOG team,

Here is the output of those 2 commands on a Surface PRO 4, see attached…0_1453757795337_deviceinfo.txt

Thanks, I do have a live Ubuntu running now, let me know if there is anything else I can provide

Awesome! I was able to make a USB ubuntu live image and I’ve booted into that and am more than happy to provide some command output. I’m not sure what you guys are looking for. Just let me know, thanks team!

Also,

What commands should I run when I get that live linux install booted up on the surface?

Disabling secure boot was one of the first steps as indicated on another forum post about imaging a surface pro 3 so I had done that already. I’ll look into live booting a linux OS on the surface.