Topics created by Tony Fiorentino

@Tony-Fiorentino Ok now the next steps is to make that dhcp option 67 dynamic. You would typically do this by following the instructions I provided about uefi bios coexistence. But since your dhcp server is older than windows 2012 you still have options without touching your primary dhcp server. You would do this by installing dnsmasq on your FOG server, and then let dnsmasq provide the proper pxe boot information based on the pxe booting client. If you have a single subnet, where your fog server and pxe booting clients are on the same subnet you just need to install dnsmasq and your’d done. If your clients are on a different subnet than your fog/dnsmasq server you need to add the fog server’s IP address in the last position of your dhcp-helper/dhcp-relay service on your subnet router, just like your main dhcp server. Once that is done your FOG server will issue pxe boot information for all subnets.

Setting up dnsmasq literally takes about 10 minutes with my tutorial. It is the way to go when your dhcp server doesn’t support dynamic boot files.

@tom-elliott Wow, you’re awesome! We’re actually getting a new network because of E-Rate within the next month. I am logging your explanation/suggestions and will run this by the guys installing the switches. Thanks.

@Tony-Fiorentino go grab any other computer and just try to capture it. See if it completes. If it does, it’s something with the machine you were capturing from.

So you are successful in getting some of your units to speak to and load the fog splash screen, but a particular model of Toshiba minis will not connect?

Where does it fail? Do you receive a PXE error code when it attempts to pull the information, or is it skipping the PXE load all together?

Some machines have to have a specific driver built into the kernel before it can communicate properly. It doesn’t take much time and it is EXTREMELY easy to do. There is a wonderful walkthrough I will look for while I wait for you to answer my questions.

If I am understanding this correctly so far, your Toshiba Mini laptops are not receiving the TFTPboot information and are not displaying the fog splash screen therefore you are unable to register or image them and it continues to boot off the hard drive.

One other quick question. You said you had an Ubuntu server, what Ubuntu version are you using? 10.04? 11.04? 12.10?
Have there been any reboots of the server? there are some versions of Linux that have problems restarting some of the services after a reboot, we’ll cover that if necessary.