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@wasps-d said in Shutdown after image deployment instead of reboot:

I’m booting via USB (Unable to use PXE booting due to limitation set by admin)

This is where the problem is. Using the USB booting, its getting the kernel parameters from the grub config and not iPXE (because iPXE isn’t being used). What you need to use is edit the grub.cfg file and add shutdown=1 at the end of the kernel parameters for menu item 1.

As below:

menuentry "1. FOG Image Deploy/Capture" { echo loading the kernel linux $myimage loglevel=$myloglevel initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=275000 keymap= web=$myfogip/fog/ boottype=usb consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 shutdown=1 echo loading the virtual hard drive initrd $myinits echo booting kernel... }

Understand this will tell the kernel to shut down after any imaging task.

@wasps-d You can automate the domain join with FOG by using the so called fog-client software. Installed in the master host before you capture the image. After the image is deployed to one or several other machines it boots into Windows, fog-client service is started, host rename, reboot and domain join happen automatically (if everthing is setup correctly). To be clear, whatever method of booting you use (PXE or USB), the domain join/rename will still work.

That said I would still advise you to talk to your admin as many PXE systems can chainload from one to the other. I am not sure about PVS but it’s worth to take a look because it would make deployment of 500 PCs so much more convenient.