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The files used were sourced from here: https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/tree/master/src/ipxe/src-efi

Thanks for the help

We have a bunch of of new arm blades that we are integrating into our FOG managed installation. It appears that while ipxe can be compiled to target efi on arm, the FOG specific modifications of ipxe don’t appear to play nicely (I’m getting exec format errors.) What’s the status of FOG support for arm, and would it be helpful for us to provide systems for testing builds?

Well, looks like we have our answer.

We’re currently just having a couple people go through the servers and disable that first NIC but if this gets resolved before we get more servers that’s a fine solution for me.

@george1421 What’s odd is if we register it with the 1gig interface enabled, then disable it afterwards, it PXE boots just fine and shows as registered.

@george1421 Yes, it is the mac address of the first port on the integrated 10Gbit SFP+ NIC

@george1421 Tried each one, got the same result. Also, when doing full registration/quick registration if I register it twice (delete host and re-register) it gives the exact same mac address each time.

At this point I’m super stumped, because it would kind of require a host defining itself based on two different mac addresses in two different places

@george1421 It shows the same mac address it was registered with and succeeded in PXE booting from.
There is only one mac address listed

We’re running fog 1.4.4.
We PXE booted from the same interface each time, and the unregistered mac address is the same as the registered one.

I’m in charge of deploying upwards of 50 servers with several NICs that we want to integrate into our existing Fog managed deployment.

These servers are from HP. Each has a 4-port RJ-45 NIC, a 2-port integrated 10Gbit SFP+ NIC, and two intel 4-port SFP+ 10Gbit NICs. We want to do most all management over the integrated 10Gbit SFP+ NIC, and have no way of interfacing with the NIC sporting the RJ-45 jacks at this time.
When we PXE boot from Fog, we are able to register hosts on the integrated 10Gbit NIC on the first port, but when we reboot and PXE boot again they show up as unregistered. On test servers, disabling any interface before the one used seems to fix this issue, but that isn’t a particularly viable solution-especially if we get more (likely) with the same limitation that disabling the NIC isn’t easily scriptable.

What could be the reason why extra interfaces (with seeming precedence for PXE booting) confuse Fog and cause it to show hosts as unregistered?

Thanks in advance for any help.