Posts made by sgilbe

@george1421 any update on a new kernel to be able to try out? Just checking in.

@george1421 I am more than willing to test any kernel that you have for me to try. If you need to build several to test different configurations I can work with that as well. It does not take much time to be able to switch between kernels with the USB drive. I have a CentOS on the system and can map my share to be able to just grab and add the kernels as needed.

@george1421 Yes I do

@george1421 Thank you all for your continued support in trying to figure out why this is not working. I appreciate all the work and time you have put into this for me and I have learned a lot so far about how this all works.

@george1421 This kernel is hanging at the same place as the fos kernel.

@george1421 When I used the ubuntu kernel as the bzImage it started to boot but I get a kernel panic. That is a good sign though.

@george1421 I am in the process of getting setup to do the preboot stuff I will try getting the vmlinuz from ubuntu and try as a bzImage on the usb drive.

@george1421 were you able to look into the kernel configurations? I am trying to follow the instructions on building a custom kernel but not sure what the options are that I need to look at. Do you know how to get the .config file from the kernel build of Ubuntu 22.04.3 If I can do a compare between that and the .config file from fos then maybe I can find the difference that would help.

@george1421 It looks like Ubuntu 22.04.3 installer uses kernel 6.2.0 which I was able to boot using the live usb media.

@george1421 Here are the CPUs that I have in the system. Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/231746/intel-xeon-platinum-8480-processor-105m-cache-2-00-ghz/specifications.html

Here are the results from the different kernels
5.15.98 = failed
5.15.93 = failed
5.15.68 = failed
5.10.50 = failed
4.19.145 = failed
4.19.101 = failed

They all get to the same point on the screen.

@george1421 After booting the USB drive I selected option 6 / debug and it is hanging at the same spot of booting kernel no extra information is displayed on the screen.

@george1421 Ok I have created the USB drive using Ubuntu 22.04.3 and it booted to the menu. I selected deploy / capture image and it is hung at the following spot. booting kernel… it has been sitting at that screen for 5 min.

@george1421 I will load ubuntu and try from that. I did try the --force switch and it still failed. I will go through the forum chat to see if there is anything there about the issue.

@george1421 Also with the system that is having issues booting into the deploy image or register host, I am able to boot into the main fog interface.

I manually Registered the host which is why it shows as registered.

I am also able to boot into the CentOS 9 Stream Installer and install that OS if I want to, as well as boot into WinPE works without any issue so I think the iPXE is working ok, but when booting the bzImage for anything but the menu it seems to hang during boot at the same screen. I have tried most of the menu items.

@george1421 I have been trying to create the USB drive but am having an issue with the following line.

grub2-install --removable --no-nvram --efi-directory=/mnt --boot-directory=/mnt/boot --target=x86_64-efi

I get the error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot.
I have checked the system that I am trying to create the USB drive on and secure boot is disabled. I have also tried to add the --force parameter but that did not work. I am using Rocky Linux 9 to create the USB drive. Maybe I am doing something wrong. I could try a different OS to do this on as well if needed.

Thanks for your help.

@george1421 I will work on making the FOS usb boot drive. Will post when done.

@george1421 I was able to boot into the live version of ubuntu 22.04.3 desktop as well as the ubuntu 22.04.3 server installer. I was also able to boot into the Rocky Linux 9.2 installer DVD and minimum install.

@george1421 I have set the debug level to 7 under Fog Settings / Kernel Loglevel. I created a task to boot the system into debug. However it is still hanging at the same point. Where can I get the debug logs from the server? I was looking in /opt/fog/log but did not see anything that looks like a debug log. As for the type of system it is an Intel 4th Gen Xeon system (D50DNP) https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/servers/multi-node-server-systems/server-d50dnp.html

With the older firmware it was working and once updated to the newer firmware PXE is no longer working.
Link to Firmware release. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/776474/bios-and-system-firmware-update-package-sfup-for-windows-and-linux-for-intel-server-d50dnp-family.html

I am trying to get fog to deploy a CentOS image that I have to a server. The firmware was updated on the server and now deploy is not working. It keeps hanging at EFI stub: Measured initrd data into PCR 9
I have tried several things to try and get past this error but nothing is working. Here is my setup.
Fog version: 1.5.10
fos version: 31.03.2023 Kernel 6.1.22
ipxe version: (g0aa2e)

I believe this has to do with security but am not sure how to get past it.
Thanks for any help that I can get.
Steve