Posts made by SaxxAppeal

@Dee DM me with specifics and I’ll see if I can help.

@george1421 said in VirtualBox FOG Server Download:

@Riggie8 This thread has been long abandon. Its much easier now to spin up a new linux server and then install FOG on it. We can guide you if you need.

Here is the wiki page for installing Centos 7 and then FOG: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=CentOS_7

This thread has certainly not been abandoned… A lot of members have messaged me for the link and I’ve continued to share it!

It’s quite easy to spin up a new server and install a clean FOG, I agree. But some people have trouble or are not comfortable with working in the LINUX CLI. And to that end, I continue to offer the VM for all who are interested.

I’m also working on a new VM with v. 1.4 installed, hopefully I’ll have that in the next week or two.

As always, I’m available to share the bit that I know with all.

Just to be clear, the default user name and password you were using were “fog” and “password”?

Did you capitalize “fog” for the user name?

An updated FOG VM is now available, PM me for download link.

Hi all,

I have built an updated FOG VM for VirtualBox, available for download. It runs Ubuntu Server 14, a recent FOG trunk version, and a custom setup script to configure your network settings. I hope it’s helpful to those who want to try out FOG and are a little less than LINUX proficient.

If you’re interested in downloading, send me a PM and I will reply with the link.

Thanks again to the developers for their continued efforts on the project, looking forward to seeing what’s coming in future releases!

@SaxxAppeal Just figured it out!!

the boot line should read:

dhcp-boot=undionly.kpxe,, XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

The double comma is required because it expects the server name first, then the IP.

Hope that helps someone…

Thanks EVERYONE for your help on this!!

@Sebastian-Roth The symlink works as well… But still asks me to enter the TFTP server. I think its just a matter of knowing exactly where and how to pass the FOG IP to dnsmasq…

@Sebastian-Roth Got it, that’s what I figured. I’ve been trying to figure out where I need to pass the FOG server address, so far no luck.

Requested info:

dhcp-boot=/tftpboot/ipxe.krn

I’ve played with this line over the last week, but it seems to work great this way.

@Sebastian-Roth Tried the 745 and the Lenovo notebook, both are perfect.

Only other thing that has been happening is when I PXE boot, I get the following prompt:

“Please enter TFTP server:”

When I enter it, everything goes through fine and it brings up the FOG menu. I’m sure it’s just an argument that needs to be passed, but not sure where I need to specify this. Any ideas?

@george1421 THIS WORKED!!!

I renamed the pxelinux.0 file to something else, and created the sym link… Booted right in!

I’ll continue to test with some other machines, if anyone else has any other tidbits to contribute please let me know!

@george1421 said in Upgrade to Trunk, Kernel Panic:

@SaxxAppeal Would you post the complete line from your dnsmasq for this prefix: pxe-service=X86PC

@Quazz I may have been reading more into what the OP didn’t say than reality.

The line you requested is as follows:

pxe-service=X86PC, "Boot from network", pxelinux

@george1421 After I installed FOG and dnsmasq, the /tftpboot directory has pxelinux.0 and pxelinux.0.old
undionly.kpxe is also present in the directory. My dnsmasq tsp.conf file points to /tftpboot as the directory to get everything from.

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.

In the original post I didn’t mention that I am using dnsmasq in my setup (always have), and it seems like it isn’t the issue because I get an IP from the FOG server, boot into the FOG splash screen, and am able to choose Full Host Reg/watch the bzImage and init files download to the client… Then I get the kernel panic.

Today I’ve tried setting up another virtual machine from scratch with Ubuntu 14, and just FOG with dnsmasq; same result.

Any other thoughts?

@Tom-Elliott said in Upgrade to Trunk, Kernel Panic:

http://<ip>/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=<macofhost>

Sorry for the delay.

Here is the output:

#!ipxe
set fog-ip 10.1.0.154
set fog-webroot fog
set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}
cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386
goto get_console
:console_set
colour --rgb 0x00567a 1 ||
colour --rgb 0x00567a 2 ||
colour --rgb 0x00567a 4 ||
cpair --foreground 7 --background 2 2 ||
goto MENU
:alt_console
cpair --background 0 1 ||
cpair --background 1 2 ||
goto MENU
:get_console
console --picture http://10.1.0.154/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80 && goto console_set || goto alt_console
:MENU
menu
colour --rgb 0xff0000 0 ||
cpair --foreground 1 1 ||
cpair --foreground 0 3 ||
cpair --foreground 4 4 ||
item --gap Host is NOT registered!
item --gap -- -------------------------------------
item fog.local Boot from hard disk
item fog.memtest Run Memtest86+
item fog.reginput Perform Full Host Registration and Inventory
item fog.reg Quick Registration and Inventory
item fog.quickimage Quick Image
item fog.multijoin Join Multicast Session
item fog.sysinfo Client System Information (Compatibility)
choose --default fog.local --timeout 3000 target && goto ${target}
:fog.local
sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80 || goto MENU
:fog.memtest
kernel memdisk iso raw
initrd memtest.bin
boot || goto MENU
:fog.reginput
kernel bzImage32.1 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz.1 root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 keymap= web=10.1.0.154/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 loglevel=4 mode=manreg
imgfetch init_32.xz.1
boot || goto MENU
:fog.reg
kernel bzImage32.1 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz.1 root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 keymap= web=10.1.0.154/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 loglevel=4 mode=autoreg
imgfetch init_32.xz.1
boot || goto MENU
:fog.quickimage
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param qihost 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.multijoin
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param sessionJoin 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.sysinfo
kernel bzImage32.1 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz.1 root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 keymap= web=10.1.0.154/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 loglevel=4 mode=sysinfo
imgfetch init_32.xz.1
boot || goto MENU
:bootme
chain -ar http://10.1.0.154/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php##params ||
goto MENU
autoboot```

@Tom-Elliott Hi Tom!! What do you mean by browser output? The GUI loads and operates perfectly, not sure if you’re asking something else.

@Quazz I’ve tested it so far with a physical Dell 745 as the server, and a VirtualBox machine as the server.

I’ve tried with a Dell 745 client, Dell 760 client, Lenovo T430 client…

Not sure if I have any other hardware available that is vastly different from the ones I’ve mentioned.

@george1421 I see. Thanks for the help so far! I hope someone else can shed some light, I’ve been pulling my hair out for 2 days with this one.

@george1421 I just tried again. Full error text:

"Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(1,0)
Kernel Offset: disabled
—[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)

@george1421 Okay, no problem, thanks for the help.

FWIW, I ran wget and pulled fresh files. Same result when I run the file command, same result when the client tries to load the kernel.

When I run “file bzImage”, my output is:

bzImage: x86 boot sector

So it seems the bzImage file in place is the wrong architecture, if I’m not mistaken??

I wonder how that happened. If I am right, how can I obtain a new x64 version?