Posts made by Trev-lchs

@george1421 Hi George yes we do have more than 1 DHCP server but they are set up as failover, I will check the settings have gone over. Thanks for the heads up, yep you guessed correctly, I was wondering if adding UFEI boot to the DHCP required anything changed on the fog server.

@trev-lchs another question, could this be to do with fog settings as we have not changed any of the PXE settings within fog settings?

@trev-lchs seem to remember git being involved?

@george1421 HI George, thank you very much for your reply, we do have secure boot disabled (it did come up with a violation to start with) in dhcp using a 2019 server the IPXE.EFI file has been put in. we are using both BIOS and UEFI in the environment and have set it up as per the link, this was in place when the screen shot was taken along with the IPXE.EFI on DHCP Option 67. We are also using the 5.15.19 64 Kernel. The result of all this is the screen shot above.

Would you suggest upgrading to a later fog? If so, is there an easy option? I seem to remember something to do with set of commands that grab the update and install it, but that was in another life at another school.

We have some new PCs and are just starting to use UEFI boot at this school. This has been set up as per the Wiki. We notice that it does try to pxe boot, it comes up with a message saying NBP file downloaded successfully, but then boots straight into windows, so no chance to register etc etc. Anyone got any ideas? All help, as always is very much appreciated. Current Version is 1.5.4 I know this is not the latest, if anyone knows the commands to update it that would be great too. But id like to try and fix one thing at a time so i know where i am.

@peterl Thank you Peter, I will endeavor to do as suggested, currently I have settled for no general pxe boot/network boot on all the PCs, this is a pain, but just means I have to go to a pc locally to boot into fog to deploy an image and I cant just do it from the fog GUI.

@sebastian-roth Thanks Sebastian, to be honest, most of them, with exactly the same result. I will try the conf file and see if that is the answer. I have been busy unpacking and installing PCs for the last few days, I will let you know how I get on.

@sebastian-roth Thats a shame, I can capture from the PC and also write the Image to the PC, so I will just have to turn off boot from network until a refind file comes along that works I guess. Unless there are any other suggestions out there.

Sebastian thank you for all your time with this, if you should hear of anything or find out from another user what the fix might be, please do drop me a line if you can. Are you able to see the email address of members?

@sebastian-roth I am running about getting PCs ready to go before the next lot arrive, this is still important to us, but I am juggling things now, just so you don’t think I am not keen to get it fixed.

@sebastian-roth HI Sabastian
please see below

root@fog-03:~# ls -al /var/www/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  4 root     root     4096 Jul 23 14:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root     root     4096 Dec  1  2016 ..
drwxr-xr-x 10 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 23 14:25 fog
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root     4096 Jul 23 10:00 html
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   52 Jul 23 14:23 index.php

root@fog-03:~# ls -al /var/www/html/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jul 23 10:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  4096 Jul 23 14:23 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 Dec  1  2016 fog -> /var/www/fog/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11321 Jul 23 10:00 index.html

root@fog-03:~# ls -al /var/www/html//fog/service/ipxe/
total 59412
drwxr-xr-x 3 fogproject www-data       4096 Jul 23 16:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data   www-data       4096 Jul 23 14:23 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data       1966 Jul 23 14:23 advanced.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 fogproject fogproject     4096 Jul 23 16:09 backup
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data      16272 Jul 23 14:23 bgdark.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data      21280 Jul 23 14:23 bg.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data       1139 Jul 23 14:23 boot.php
-rwxr-xr-x 1 fogproject fogproject  8950400 Jul 23 16:09 bzImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data    8398784 Jul 23 14:24 bzImage32
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     234697 Jul 23 14:23 grub.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data        592 Jul 23 14:23 index.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data   20591048 Jul 23 14:24 init_32.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data   21178512 Jul 23 14:24 init.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data      25340 Jul 23 14:23 memdisk
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data    1839104 Jul 23 14:23 memtest.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data   www-data     254216 Jul 23 07:46 refind2.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     202624 Jul 23 14:23 refind_aa64.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data      29719 Jul 23 14:23 refind.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     262592 Jul 23 14:23 refind.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     201600 Jul 23 14:23 refind_ia32.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     208776 Jul 23 14:23 refind_x64.efi

Hope this is what you wanted, as always thanks for your help.

@sebastian-roth having now tried all the various options of exit in the latest version of FOG I have had no luck, this is with the rEFInd.efi renamed and the latest X64 REFInd file copied over it (0132) and named rEFInd.efi. Should I now revert everything back to standard? Any advice as always gratefully accepted. To note, once it was using the REFInd exit version (the 0132 one) it still hung at initializing

@sebastian-roth Not sure if you get any of the donations but if you do, have a beer on me

@sebastian-roth I have now carried out everything you have listed and still have the same error with refind Chain loading failed hit s. As this is a new version of fog I will check all the other exit types, you never know!

@sebastian-roth Hi Sabastian, thank you so much for the save with fog, it is now back up and I am happy to say we still have the refind issue, happy I can be at that point. On testing it is just saying Chainloading failed , hit S. Should I still rename the file refind_x64.efi to refind.efi and copy that over. I am using the user I would normal use to log into the server with, then I run sudo -s to allow me to do things, the Winscp has the user details that I would normally log into the server with but I guess without sudo -s bit, it wont be able to do anything?

@trev-lchs now to test refind lol

@trev-lchs Fog is working again, I can’t thank you enough, life saver literary

@sebastian-roth Thanks Sabastian, that’s brilliant running it now.