What happens if you set to boot the client from HDD only - disable PXE boot for testing. Does Windows come up or do you see the same cursor on screen?
If I boot to HDD directly, or skip PXE boot with ESC key during TFTP, computer boots without issue to M.2 SSD device with Windows 7 Professional installed and I have not the cursor.
Is it a FOG image?
I do not know about that. I’m thinking about Norton Ghost or Microsoft WDS.
@sebastian-roth said in Problems with exit boot on M.2 SSD drive:
But is your image made for/from UEFI or BIOS PCs I am wondering?
The image was made by the manufacturer with these BIOS settings and a Windows downgraded to Windows 7 Pro for us, but I think that computer is made for Windows 8/10 at start.
@george1421 I edited the refind.conf file to replaced the line in question and I changed BIOS exit mode to REFIND_EFI, and still the blinking underscore character, with sometimes a loop beep sound as a locked keyboard key.
@george1421 said in Problems with exit boot on M.2 SSD drive:
These chameleon systems are a bit of a pita (from a debugging perspective). Since you are booting win7, tell me this. What iPXE boot file are you sending to this computer? OR to ask it another way, what value do you have set for dhcp option 67 [boot-file]? Is it undionly.kpxe or ipxe.efi?
I send the boot file “undionly.kpxe” on DHCP option 67.
@sebastian-roth said in Problems with exit boot on M.2 SSD drive:
@siheobs You can also try newer versions of rEFInd to see if those work with the newer M.2 SSD disk. I just updated our version in the working branch - Thanks to George for pointing me to that! So you can either upgrade to the latest RC version or simply download the files by hand:
sudo -i
cd /var/www/fog/service/ipxe
mv refind.efi refind.efi.bak
mv refind.conf refind.conf.bak
wget https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/raw/working/packages/web/service/ipxe/refind.efi
wget https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/raw/working/packages/web/service/ipxe/refind.conf
I just tried to download new refind files, and change my BIOS for UEFI Mode. The PC not boot on PXE, but boot on M.2 SSD drive.
This is not a hardware problem ?
@wayne-workman @sebastian-roth @george1421 Onto my BIOS, all computers are configured with CSM enabled, Boot Mode Auto (boot sequence: UEFI, Legacy) and Boot Priority Legacy First.
Computers use Windows 7 Professional OS.
I already tried to set all possible EXIT type, but nothing change.
Hi everybody,
I have a new computer generation at my work, it’s a ThinkCentre M710 compact
I use FOG 1.4.4 for image deployment and i can’t boot on M2 SSD drive.
After the boot PXE, when it’s supposed to start on the Hard drive it stay stuck on a blink
underscore character (look the picture).
I had try to change multiple exit boot settings like (Host Bios Exit Type, Host EFI Exit Type) and nothink works.
Somebody ever try to use fog 1.4.4 with a M2 connectors ?
Thanks guys if you have some solution for me.
