Posts made by wisem2540

[quote=“ssx4life, post: 852, member: 268”]I have run into issues with some .iso’s not liking to be PXE booted, and the above software is one of them.

If you haven’t yet, try a different version of the .iso in question and see if that works.

Also if you can, please paste your default file modifications in the forums, it might be a simple issue of you not loading it into memory (or having enough memory on the client side if your machines are thin clients)[/quote]

I am using a pretty old version of Hiren’s…8.8, do you think another version might actually fix it? Hirens underwent alot of changes recently, and alot of the “cool” software is gone in favor of free crap. As for memory, that should not be an issue. I would like to do this in case I find myself without a CD (which happens alot)

here is my defult file. According to the instructions, I copied the mem file into the same directory as the Hirens ISO.

[B]LABEL USHiren88[/B]
[B]MENU PASSWD c1inic@1[/B]
[B]kernel fog/Hirens88/memdisk [/B]
[B]append iso initrd=fog/Hirens88/USHiren88.iso raw[/B]
[B]MENU LABEL US Patched Hiren’s Boot CD V8.8[/B]
[B]TEXT HELP[/B]
[B]Launches US Keyboard Patched Hiren’s boot CD v8.8 Original[/B]
[B]Diagnostic CD[/B]
[B]ENDTEXT[/B]
[B]LABEL DellDiag[/B]
[B]kernel fog/DellDiag/memdisk [/B]
[B]append iso initrd=fog/DellDiag/Dell.iso raw[/B]
[B]MENU LABEL Dell Diagnostic CD[/B]
[B]TEXT HELP[/B]
[B]Launches Dell Hardware Diagnostic CD[/B]
[B]ENDTEXT[/B]
[B]LABEL XPrec[/B]
[B]kernel fog/XPrec/memdisk [/B]
[B]append iso initrd=fog/XPrec/xp.iso raw[/B]
[B]MENU LABEL Windows XP Recovery Console[/B]
[B]TEXT HELP[/B]
[B]Launches Windows XP Recovery Console[/B]
[B]ENDTEXT[/B]

XP recovery console bluescreens too. I am sure that is a seperate issue

I have an old windows 2000 box I wanted to capture an image of with Fog. So I booted into the bios, enabled PXE and uploaded the image fine. After reboot, the NIC Link light goes out after win2k loads. If I reboot, I can still boot into fog, so the NIC is functional. Does enabling PXE change the way the NIC reports in windows? Since the NIC only stops working after windows loads, it appears to be a driver issue to me.

Unfortunately, its a Vendor supported machine (Kodak) and there is software on the machine to keep me from logging into windows to check things out. And of course Kodak wants a ton of money to come and fix this thing. Is there any possible way that enabling PXE and uploading with Fog caused this? Im just trying to cover myself.

EDIT. I tried turning PXE back off in the bios, and the issue is still there…

I currently have fog deployed in a hospital environment. I integrated Hiren’s boot CD (80MB ISO) into the fog boot menu. From the same hospital that the fog server is sitting, I see tge Hirens boot menu

1. Boot from Hard Disk
2. Boot CD

I click boot CD and the menus come up, but if I try to launch a program, ill get an error that says NO BOOT CD FILES FOUND…So obviously it doesnt work.

If I go to a different hopsital and launch Hirens, it will hang ay STARTING BOOT CD, and this is before I see the above menu… So obviously that doesnt work even more…

Interestingly enough, the Dell Diagnostic ISO seems to work ok. (5MB ISO)
Do I have to increase some sort of RAM Drive Setting on fog? Any help would be great.

So I just deployed fog for the first time using Ubuntu 10. On my client PC I went to [URL=‘http://server/fog/clinet’]http://server/fog/client[/URL], and downloaded and installed the client. During the setup, I entered the IP of the fog server and rebooted as instructed. That test PC still is not listed under ALL HOSTS. What did I do wrong? How can I troubleshoot this?

thanks