Hello everyone, I am the network admin for an entirely apple organization. Ive been using fog for years, and I am able to clone all macs/macbooks up to the 2019 model, but now im having some issues with getting it running right on our new 2019 macbooks.
My current setup for imaging consists of a small 400mb partition on the local disk itself (blessed of course) that boots grub and lets me pick from the imaging options. As a temporary workaround to the pxe booting issue, I have a copy of clonezilla on the disk itself that copies itself to RAM and mounts a cifs share to save/restore images from automatically, though this doesnt give me as many features as capturing with fog would (compression size, multicast etcâŠ), it does give me the basic functionality of being able to plug an ethernet cable into a machine and image it over the network.
I compiled my own ipxe binaries from the latest source, and I added debugging output to my ipxe.efi binary. I have tried 3 of the pxe binaries, each giving different results, I have also tried using the pre-compiled fog binaries as well as premade ones from netboot.xyz:
All testing is done with the official apple belkin adapter:
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HJKF2ZM/A/belkin-usb-c-to-gigabit-ethernet-adapter
or this USB C dock:
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Adapter-Ethernet-MacBook-ChromeBook/dp/B071G83L1J
iPXE.efi - I get ipxe initializing devicesâŠOK!, net0 errors out (internal wifi card) with:
wl_ioctl: dhd_wl_ioctl_cmd failed. cmd 263, ret -14, ifidx = 0
wl_iovar: wlIoctl failed name cur_etheraddr, ret -14
BCMDHD_UNDIStationAddr: error setting cur_etheraddr !
I assume everything that starts with wl is referring to a wireless card, so hopefully shouldnt be having any effect on the ethernet NIC.
Then net1 (ethernet adapter) complains about âno configuration methods succeedâ, rinse repeat until I hit a pxe shell.
snp.efi - Same as ipxe
snponly.efi - It goes to load, I see a white block of color, top left says âWelcome to grubâ but nothing else appears, normally underneath I would see somthing like:
âiPXE 1.20.1 (version number) Open Source Network Boot Firmwareâ but the screen just hangs after the intial loading of the binary.
I would be happy to provide any additional information you need, all of my testing is done with either a windows DHCP server or an ISC-DHCP server (I have special apple classes defined in ISC, windows is just option 66 and 67), I also have a pretty decent homelab/multiple test environments at work (plus a wide variety of diverse hardware to test on), so I dont mind getting my hands a bit dirty. I however, am very much NOT a programmer, so im afraid I wont be of much help there ![:) đ](https://forums.fogproject.org/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f642.png?v=n7md0ml2s1k)
Thank you,
Smoblikat