@EricLA2K Thanks heaps for keeping us posted. I am fairly sure this will help other users as well!!
Posts made by Sebastian Roth
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RE: Dell 5591: TFTP works for Legacy but not UEFI
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RE: TFTP Open Timeout on New Fog Install
@fhrivers Take a look at this wiki article:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=CentOS_7#Continue_pre-configAs well I am wondering how you setup the networking of the VirtualBox VM. Best if you can take a picture of the network settings in VirtualBox and post here.
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RE: Lenovo X1 Tablet (Gen 3) Stuck at "init.xz...ok"
@dpusser_CMS Yes, I can understand that it seems a little over the top to build your very own kernel just having started to use Linux. Bu hey, I think it’s never to early to get your fingers dirty and this is not very hard to do with all the things provided. There is not much you can mess up so I’d encourage you to just give it a go and simply ask if you think something is not going the right way. Just take a picture of the screen with an error or whatever and we’ll guide you the rest of the way!
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RE: Boot placa através de live cd/usb
@jsch As far as I know this is the latest tutorial on building a USB boot media: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7727/building-usb-booting-fos-image
But still I think that you might run into an issue with that. Multicast might not work with that. We were discussing this in another thread with @george1421 and I am not sure if he was able to confirm multicast to work or not using the USB boot method.
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RE: FoG with UEFI or Secure Boot?
@jcabuco Yeah, in gernal that’s right. But switching forth and back is not very convenient. You might want to look into setting up dnsmasq as ProxyDHCP as George suggested at some point.
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RE: Lenovo X1 Tablet (Gen 3) Stuck at "init.xz...ok"
@dpusser_CMS FOG uses the isc-dhcp-server which is part of most Linux distros. Depending on the Linux you have you find the configuration in
/etc/dhcpd.conf
,/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
or/etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf
.Take a look through the config and you’ll find several lines like
filename "ipxe.efi";
in there. Change those and restart the service (usuallysystemctl restart isc-dhcp-server
orsystemctl restart dhcp
orsystemctl restart dhcpd
).Have you looked into building your own kernel yet?
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RE: Windows Boot Manager boot option disappears after Image
@ConJon Ok, I’ll take a closer look at this stuff in the next days! Information from the capture machine is fine. Exactly what I need.
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RE: FoG with UEFI or Secure Boot?
@jcabuco said in FoG with UEFI or Secure Boot?:
Secure boot no longer needed since I can enable bitlocker without secureboot.
Just so you don’t wonder later on. Bitlocker enabled disks will produce very large image files as FOG is not able to read the actual data from the (encrypted) filesystem but needs to take a so called raw copy sector by sector.
In fact we added a check for Bitlocked partitions some months ago (see here) as we had many requests about huge raw image files in the forums back in that time.
Right now FOG will fail out if it finds a bitlocked partition. Maybe we should change that to just a warning. Please let me know if you want me to change that!
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RE: TFTP Open Timeout on New Fog Install
@fhrivers said in TFTP Open Timeout on New Fog Install:
Option 67 is set to undionly.kpxe like it’s supposed to
Not for UEFI booting machines though. If your machines are UEFI booting then you need to use ipxe.efi. Details on this see here: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=BIOS_and_UEFI_Co-Existence
I guess we need more details to be able to help:
- Which Linux OS do you use? CentOS? Debian? Ubuntu? Did you disable SELinux and the firewall?
- Is TFTP running? Command to check:
netstat -antup | grep ":69"
orss -antul | grep ":69"
(if netstat is not installed) - Do you have other machines (beside Lenovo X1 Carbon and my VMWare Workstation VM which can both be tricky) that do properly PXE boot on the new FOG server?
- Take a picture of the actual TFTP error on screen an post here!
- Have you read the troubleshooting guide in our wiki? https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tftp_timeout… (please follow the tests to see if you can manually download the iPXE binary file)
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RE: Error deploy print_req_error: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1 sector...
@mary-montesanto Please keep us posted when you get the new SSDs from Lenovo. It’s definitely very strange that you see those disk errors in four drives even though I am fairly sure it’s a hardware issue you still wonder that it’s so many in one batch.
How many of those machines do you have (exact same model)? Maybe Lenovo already knows about the issue as they sent you new drives immediately?!
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RE: Error deploy print_req_error: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1 sector...
@mary-montesanto said:
Yes, Right
In this case I am almost certain that it’s not something caused by FOG as it is not able to provoke such errors on disks!
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RE: Display Ethernet card connection speed
@andreiv Nice idea. But what if you schedule multicast as a group task? No login or any other User interaction is needed then.
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RE: Error deploy print_req_error: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1 sector...
@mary-montesanto said in Error deploy print_req_error: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1 sector...:
The problem with the image I posted is not on all the machines but only on 4.
Are we talking about all machines being the exact same model and all from the same order, same SSD, same SSD firmware version, same UEFI firmware version?
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RE: ZFS : Error trying to restore gpt partition
@nevinconstantin Please keep us posted on the issue and if and how you were able to solve this.
Resizing to a smaller disk does actually work in many cases. So it is not something FOG is unable to handle in general. But there are partition layouts where the later partition(s) prevent from a full resize.
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RE: Lenovo X1 Tablet (Gen 3) Stuck at "init.xz...ok"
@dpusser_CMS said in Lenovo X1 Tablet (Gen 3) Stuck at "init.xz...ok":
I’m also willing to try to debug the kernel boot process as you mentioned earlier.
For this you wanna read our wiki article on building a kernel as a starter. Let us know if you need help with that. From there we can add debugging to find where exactly the kernel hangs.
I’ve tried to search how to switch the DHCP server config to point to snp.efi or snponly.efi, but I’m not having much luck finding instructions.
Is your FOG server doing DHCP in your network or do you have another one serving DHCP for you?
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RE: Error deploy print_req_error: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1 sector...
@mary-montesanto said in Error deploy print_req_error: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1 sector...:
The problem is not on all the machines currently but only on 4 and the lenovo has sent me back 4 SSDs.
What do you mean by that???
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RE: Error deploy print_req_error: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1 sector...
@mary-montesanto Ok, if it’s four machines showing this error then maybe it’s a kernel bug. How many of those machines do you have? Are all showing this problem?
Please tell us the exact model of SSD you have and I will try to find out if there is a kernel bug pending on this.
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RE: Adding needed repository... Failed!
@benc I just pushed a fix to the
dev-branch
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RE: Adding needed repository... Failed!
@benc Thanks for letting us know. As far as I can see we do exactly this within the installer. See here: https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/blob/master/lib/common/functions.sh#L534
As we have been informed about this being an issue within Ubuntu twice in the last days I am wondering if there is anything Ubuntu changed to make this fail?!
@Wayne-Workman The installer test seems absolutely fine but possibly that’s because you have the package
software-properties-common
pre-installed? Can you check on that? I have had a look at the logs from your installer tests but the package is not mentioned and that’s why I guess you have it pre-installed… -
RE: Lenovo X1 Tablet (Gen 3) Stuck at "init.xz...ok"
@dpusser_CMS I will quote George’s post here:
@george1421 said in Unable to build FOS:
We have seen this a few times before. What is happening is the hand-off from the iPXE kernel to uefi and the on to bzImage (FOS) is not working correctly. This is often because of bugs in the uefi firmware. One suggestion is to make sure the firmware is updated on your target computer. We have seen quite a few early in a model production cycle bios with problems that have been later fixed with updates.If there is no firmware update available for this device we’d need to debug the kernel boot process on this particular device. As I don’t have a device at hand this would be something you need to do. We can guide you but we can’t do the testing for you.
Another thing you can try but are more or less unlikely to help is using a different iPXE binary to boot. By default we use
ipxe.efi
for UEFI-enabled devices. You can edit your DHCP server config and point tosnp.efi
orsnponly.efi
and see if that makes a difference.