I found if I choose a RAW image it works perfectly. You have to wait 6 hours for the image to create the first time, and 40 minutes for each deploy, but at lease it works. RAW must get the boot sector correctly where the the others do not. Something is different because it works for me. It even works for Win8.1 and the new UEFI BIOS.

Eric:
How did you edit the Fog.download file? I can’t seem to find the same file on my system.
I have a fog.download file, but it is way different and does not contain the setting you describe.[SIZE=2] Can you please offer some [/SIZE]guidance[SIZE=2]?[/SIZE]
Admittedly, I am a linux noob so forgive me if this is obvious to others.

Oh, and I did re-run the install
/bin/./installfog.sh to see if that would fix it.
no change

These are the two entries in /var/log/apach2/error file
The first is when I click list images, the second is when I try to search images

[Thu Jun 05 14:17:17.106440 2014] [:error] [pid 6647] [client 192.168.1.1:51401] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /var/www/fog/lib/pages/ImageManagementPage.class.php on line 119, referer: [url]http://192.168.1.1/fog/management/index.php?node=images[/url]

[Thu Jun 05 14:17:26.848706 2014] [:error] [pid 4409] [client 192.168.1.1:51402] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /var/www/fog/lib/pages/ImageManagementPage.class.php on line 194, referer: [url]http://192.168.1.1/fog/management/index.php?node=images&sub=search[/url]

Hello:
what was the ultimate resolution to this? I seem to have the exact same problem now and it seemed to happen after I messed with trying to move my storage location.
I did try to change the memory size. Mine was like Brett’s above. I went from 128m to 256m and it didn’t help.
My php -v reports:
php 5.5.9-1ubuntu4
built april 9 2014
Zend engine v 2.5.0

Thank you Jamie.
I will keep that in mind. If I go that route, I could use all the help I can get.

Thanks to all of you for helping me out.
I have to disagree with the person who said SYSPREP does not mess with activation. It certainly does. when you generalize, it forces you through the OOBE (out of box experience) and you have to put a key in again unless you have an OEM liscense. Granted, you can create an answer file to put that number in, but I don’t want to mess with that.
Furthermore, While I do have the OEM license number off the bottom of the machine, I don’t have OEM media with which to install. I have the Volume licensing media with our campus site license agreement. OEM numbers do not work in volume media and Vice-Versa

As I wrote that post yesterday, I was waiting for a RAW image upload to finish.
Now that is has completed I pushed it back to the client computer and it works exactly as I want it to.
NO SYSPREP required. No changes to the BIOS that I would have to make on 900 laptops. Something must be different there.
I’ll just use RAW until FOG supports UEFI
The upload of the image takes 5 hours, but the download is reasonable at 45 minutes.
I can live with that.
Thanks again for all of your input.
I am very grateful.

Thank you so much for your replies. I am afraid of wiping and reloading the OS for fear of windows needing activation in 60 days. I was burned by that one year. Half way through the semester 800 of my laptop students got a little key down by the clock saying the windows was not genuine and needed activated. Huge mess.

This is also the same reason I don’t want to run SYSPREP. If I was willing to run SYSPREP and risk the activation issue, I would just use a windows server with WDS to do the imaging. I already have that working too, but stupid windows WDS won’t “see” any drive that is not SYSPREPed.

Is there a release date in mind for the UEFI support for FOG? I have 2 more months until I need to get these imaged. Semester does not start until August, we usually mass image late july.

You are correct Tom, these are new UEFI, but I have that set to “Legacy first” and “secure boot” disabled.
Doesn’t that turn that stuff off until the OS calls for it?

Hello:
I have 900 new Lenovo T440 laptops that I’d like to image all identical.
I have no windows bullshit anywhwere so SIDs are not an issue…I just want to replicate on to many.
I used clonezilla live from a bootable flash drive, created the image and pushed it back to another machine with no problem at all. That’s great for onezy twozy images, but I need to deploy this to 899 more.
To accomplish this I was hoping to use FOG. I love it’s features. I set it all up with a Ubuntu server and dhcp and PXE boot and the whole 9 yards. It seems to work fine, I can create the image, then push it back to another machine. The problem is the machine I push to is not bootable after the image. All of the data seems to be there, but it is not bootable. again, clonezilla works fine and both FOG and clonezilla use partclone 0.2.69. I did try creating the image multi partition all disks and multi partition single disk…I am currently sitting here waiting for the 6 hours to try a RAW image.

Can anyone shed light on what clonezilla does differently?
I did notice the clonezilla live saves a single .img file while FOG saves a whole bunch of other files.
Thanks for any help!