The deployed image is crashing to the point I cannot even get into dell bios unless i restart it 30 times and get lucky.

This does not happen when using the same image (Captured with) on clonezilla.

These boards do not support legacy boot modes.

I set up our DHCP to boot into fog via ipxe and it seems to do the imaging fine. each dell pc freezes at the bios screen. sometimes I can get it to boot into clonezilla to do my backup solution for imaging.

Any clue what could be causing this? Is it my image?

Dell inspiron 3493

@Cheetah2003
I’m having this exact issue as well on 1909. Did you ever find a fix?

HAH~

I swapped out the asus keyboard out with a dell keyboard and it worked…

I just installed Fog 1.5.7 on Ubuntu 18.04 lts

When I try to do a full host registration on a PC everything launches fine no errors, when it gets to
*Starting host registration
*Enter hostname for this computer : _

the cursor just sits there and blinks
I cannot type a thing in this.

When I try to do a quick host registration and then select the host and prenamed image to be captured. I get unable to locate image store /bin/fog.download

Could something be going on with the hardware I’m using? When I installed Ubuntu I just partitioned the whole disk. No LVM.

Is there a work around to this?

@george1421 I got it to work! I plugged a dumb switch inbetween the managed ciscos and the PC i was trying to pxe boot. I’m thinking there is a power saving issue setup that keeps it from powering on

Now here’s another problem.

When its at
*Start host registration
*Enter hostname for this computer:

I’m going to reinstall fog from scratch i think

I cannot type anything !!!

Much love to you developers who have helped this linux noob out with this problem. It’s been super educational

@george1421 No echos seen

I saved the file to my desktop and did sudo cp -r /home/username/desktop /var/www/fog/…/ipxe… I browsed to it on the GUI and confirmed on properties it was modified the time id id so.

The output I got after a quick host registration was
populating .dev: done
initializing random number done
starting haveged: ok
starting enp1so interface and waiting fof the link to come up
udhcpc: started v1.29.3
udhcpc: sending discover
udhcpc: sending discover
udhcpc: sending discover
udhcpc: no lease, failing
Either DHCP failed or we were unable to access http://fogserveripaddress/fog//index.php for connection testing.
repeat 3 times
No DHCP respawn on interface enp1s0 , skipping it.
failed to get an ip via dhcp, tried on interfaces enp1s0

Note: I’m using a laptop for the fog server , Dell latitude e5420 Bios: LegacyBoot Secure off
I’m trying to do a Quick or Full host registration on a Dell Optiplex 3050. Bios: Uefi on SecureBoot on

Both confirmed pxe on

@george1421
Ok, I entered in the Echo line and repackaged the file with the guide on the wiki.

The echo command did not work. I saw nothing saying “Sleeping for a bit”

@george1421 Is it worth modifying anything in init_32.xz?

@george1421 How do I pxeboot into debug mode?

@Sebastian-Roth

Wait till the interface is fully up and ready (spanning tree)

timeout=0
linkstate=0
until [[ $linkstate -eq 1 || $timeout -ge 35 ]]; do
    let timeout+=1
    linkstate=$(/bin/cat /sys/class/net/$iface/carrier)
    [[ $linkstate -eq 0 ]] && sleep 1 || break
done
[[ $linkstate -eq 0 ]] && echo "No link detected on $iface for $timeout seconds, skipping it." && continue
for retry in $(seq 3); do
    sleep 27
    /sbin/udhcpc -i $iface --now
    ustat="$?"
    curl -Ikfso /dev/null "${web}"/index.php --connect-timeout 5
    cstat="$?"
    # If the udhcp is okay AND we can curl our web
    # we know we have link so no need to continue on.
    # NOTE: the link to web is kind of important, just
    # exiting on dhcp request is not sufficient.
    [[ $ustat -eq 0 && $cstat -eq 0 ]] && exit 0
    echo "Either DHCP failed or we were unable to access ${web}/index.php for connection testing."
    sleep 1
done
echo "No DHCP response on interface $iface, skipping it."

done

If we end up here something went wrong as we do exit the script as soon as we get an IP

@Sebastian-Roth Oh no, I was just typing in the little bit of it freehanded described in the instruction and guide. I’m not sure if there’s a done there or not. I will check asap.

@tech49 No go

@george1421 Thanks, I’m using fog 1.5.7 on Ubuntu 18 LTS

for notes reasons this is what I did. I was unable to open it in VI for some reason. The screen was blank, SO I did a sudo gedit and opened it up in the text editor software. This is what I did for the sleep 27 line.

 for retry in $(seq 3); do
       sleep 27
       /sbin/udhcpc -i $iface --now

About to give this puppy a whirl. Will let you know if it worked.

@george1421 I hate to ask this, but could you write up a detailed guide on how to do this? I’m beginner level at linux. I unpacked the file and when i tried to open up the init file i could not save the file after changing the values. It was being edited in Terminal.

I also noticed in fog that there is a setting called “Remit Hello Interval” in the storage settings. Would this be the same settings?

Thanks for any advice you can give!