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    About to lose it... stupid PXE boot

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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403
      last edited by

      Ok So I just built 10 systems (I know don't ask)

      first one I hook up to my fog network PXE boots without issue.

      Second, 3rd 4th, 5th and 6th don't boot.

      I plug the first one back in, it still boots.

      What the **@#!

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403
        last edited by

        And no it's not the BIOS settings of these other machines.

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403
          last edited by

          FINALLY!!

          Just trying to piss me off it is....

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          • dafyreD
            dafyre
            last edited by

            What was the problem?

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              Alex Sage @dafyre
              last edited by

              @dafyre said:

              What was the problem?

              Yes, please do tell 🙂

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403
                last edited by

                It has to be the services, because it's back again...

                I'm so close to putting something through the monitor I'm using for this...

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403
                  last edited by

                  See what doesn't make any sense to me is that I've been imagining pre-built systems all day yesterday.
                  So it's got to be something with these desktops...

                  Driving me bonkers.

                  Reboot to the FOG VM and it runs for 1 more.

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                  • dafyreD
                    dafyre @DustinB3403
                    last edited by

                    @DustinB3403 said:

                    See what doesn't make any sense to me is that I've been imagining pre-built systems all day yesterday.
                    So it's got to be something with these desktops...

                    Driving me bonkers.

                    Reboot to the FOG VM and it runs for 1 more.

                    Can you tell if the Machines are actually getting an IP from the FOG DHCP server or what?

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403
                      last edited by

                      I can monitor the dhcpd.leases temp file and see what's going on

                      But I haven't.

                      Because it clearly works. It's got to be the hardware that I'm trying to image.

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                        Jason Banned
                        last edited by Jason

                        If you have STP enabled on your switches you need to enable portfast or PXE boot will fail.

                        spanning-tree portfast (for Cisco IOS)

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                        • dafyreD
                          dafyre @DustinB3403
                          last edited by

                          @DustinB3403 said:

                          I can monitor the dhcpd.leases temp file and see what's going on

                          But I haven't.

                          Because it clearly works. It's got to be the hardware that I'm trying to image.

                          Bring in another machine and test it?

                          Also, there used to be a CDROM that could PXE boot your computer, so you could use that if your NIC's firmware is being stupid...

                          I think it is this one: http://ipxe.org/

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                          • MattSpellerM
                            MattSpeller @DustinB3403
                            last edited by

                            @DustinB3403 said:

                            I can monitor the dhcpd.leases temp file and see what's going on

                            But I haven't.

                            Because it clearly works. It's got to be the hardware that I'm trying to image.

                            Run out of IP's to lease? I've done that before heheheh

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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403 @Jason
                              last edited by

                              @Jason Yeah this is just a dumb switch that I have setup at the moment.

                              So no such functionality to enable or disable.

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                              • DustinB3403D
                                DustinB3403 @MattSpeller
                                last edited by

                                @MattSpeller Cleared the leases file, first thing I thought of.

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