Posts made by Zerpie

@Sebastian-Roth Yeah I was thinking the same thing. So now that tablet is booting reliably every time. I’ve moved to another one and it’s getting the errors again. This is totally a tablet-related issue and not a Fog related one.

Ok I don’t know what happened, but after I exited BIOS settings this time on the tablet, it booted into Fog and started a capture task. I have no idea why. I didn’t change any of the settings. I’ll have to play with it some more.

@Sebastian-Roth It’s the same model, but not the exact same tablet I got working before.

I tried changing the host settings back to bzimage and init.xz and I got the same error.

These tablets do not have the option to enable/disable secure boot in BIOS setup.

I’ll see if we still have the original tablet that we got working to see if it’s also getting the errors.

EDIT: Nope. It’s impossible to find the original tablet. It was added back to the stock of all the others and I didn’t get the serial# from it.

@Sebastian-Roth The first thing I checked was that I had Host Kernel set to bzImage32 and Host Init set to init_32.xz since that was the last thing we were missing when we got it working last.

I followed your instructions of moving the original files and getting the latest ones, but I’m still getting the same Exec format error.

@Zerpie Ok I don’t know what happened in the last couple weeks, but it’s not working anymore. I’m back to getting the following errors when trying to capture an image from these tablets.

bzImage32... ok
Could not select: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008081)
Could not boot: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008081)
Could not boot: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008081)

I haven’t made any changes to Fog since I got this working originally. I told my team that it was working and they could move forward with using Fog to image these tablets. Once they got around to it they brought it to my attention that it wasn’t working.

I also don’t know if I need to start a new thread since I already marked this one as solved.

Capture and deploy completed successfully! Looks like the problem is solved. Thanks for all your help, guys!

@george1421 It looks like that did it! It’s currently capturing the image. I’ll keep an eye on it to make sure it completes without any errors. Then I’ll try and deploy the image back to the tablet to make sure that works as well.

@Sebastian-Roth Alright, that got me a bit further. It looked like it was actually going to start capturing, but I got “An error has been detected!”

* Could not mount /dev/mmcblk2p3 (/bin/fog.upload->beginUpload)
Args Passed:
Reason: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache refused to mount.
Failed to mount '/dev/mmcblk2p3' : Operation not permitted
The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option.

I allowed the tablet to boot into Windows and did a full shutdown using the command Shutdown -f -s -t 0. Then I booted it back up and now when it tries to boot over ipv4 it immediately skips over it and tries ipv6 before booting back into Windows.

Ok I still had debug earlyprintk=efi loglevel=7 set in the Host Kernel Arguments so I cleared that out and tried again. I didn’t get the wall of text this time, just the Kernel panic. Here’s everything I see.

Starting init: /sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)
Starting init: /bin/sh exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)
Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.  See Linux Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst for guidance.
Kernel Offset: disabled
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.  See Linux Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst for guidance.

@Sebastian-Roth Yup. I got these errors at some point before and posted about it earlier in the thread.

Ok I could have sworn I tried it with bzimage32 set for Host Kernel earlier today, but I just tried it now and I got a little further. It gave me a whole page of text and it looked like it was going to work but then it stopped and I see these lines at the bottom.

Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.  See Linux Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst for guidance.
Kernel Offset: disabled
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.  See Linux Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst for guidance.

I probably should have posted this a while back. I’m not sure if it’ll help, but it’ll at least be good to know what we’re working with. The device is a Touch Dynamics Quest 7 Tablet mobile POS (point of sale).

https://www.touchdynamic.com/products/mobile-pos-tablets/quest-tablet-and-premium-dock/

There’s not a whole lot out there about it that I could find.

@Sebastian-Roth Ok I gave that a try and now it’s back what I was getting before.

BzImage_debug... ok
Could not select: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008081)
Could not boot: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008081)
Could not boot: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008081)

And then it just continues to boot into the OS.

@Quazz said in Tablet PC hangs on bzImage:

@Zerpie Did you ever end up trying the has_usb_nic=1 kernel argument?

I did. Still no luck.

@Sebastian-Roth That’s a shame. I was hoping we’d be able to find a network boot solution for imaging the tablets as we typically have to image several at once for orders. I haven’t found any imaging or cloning software with network boot/PXE boot that works with this tablets. We’re currently using a USB boot option already which works, but we still have to do one at a time.

@Sebastian-Roth said in Tablet PC hangs on bzImage:

Try enabling debug make bin-i386-efi/ncm–ecm–axge.efi EMBED=shell.txt DEBUG=ncm,ecm,axge, copy the binary over, try again and see if you get any further output on screen that could help us.

Same results. It drops me to the ipxe shell and doesn’t accept any input from the keyboard. There’s no firmware upgrade available either.

@Sebastian-Roth Ok so I tried the new binary, but when it drops me to the ipxe shell everything locks up and I’m not able to enter any commands. I can’t even enter a ctrl+alt+del to restart the tablet.

YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING!

Both the capture and deploy tasks completed successfully! Thank you all so much for your help! Now I can have our staging team start using Fog for our equipment with RAID.

Thanks again!

I’m not sure what that error was caused by the first time around, but I was able to successfully capture the image on my second pass. Now I’m deploying the captured image. So far so good. No errors yet. Fingers crossed…

My first attempt to capture the image after downloading the new init files I got an error.

Partclone fail, please check /var/log/partclone.log !

Failed to complete capture (savePartition)
   Args Passed: /dev/md126p1 1 /images/00270e3b9d1e all
    Exit code: 1
    Maybe check the fog server to ensure disk space is good to go?

After the host rebooted it started a CHKDSK and I’m waiting for it to finish now.
I may need to restore the original image again just to get a fresh start. I’ve also checked the image storage and there’s plenty of space available. I’ll update once I’ve gotten a few good tests. Thanks!

@george1421 That’s good to know. Does that mean I’ll have to wait for a future update for this to work with my equipment?

Thanks for all the work you guys have put into this. I really appreciate how much this community is willing to help.