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Include SystemRescueCD

2014-06-26T21:24:47Z

Iana:

=System Rescue CD =

[http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page System Rescue CD] is a linux live CD which comes with a huge array of tools for examining/recovering/repairing both linux and windows filesystems. These instructions aim to show you how to add it as an option to the fog boot menu so that it is always available without the need to carry a CD around. It offers you the ability to...

* [http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-Partitioning-EN-Repairing-a-damaged-Grub (re)install grub]
* [http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-Partitioning-EN-Standard-partitioning-tools fsck extfs filesystems before imaging]
* [http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Mounting_an_NTFS_partition_with_full_Read-Write_support Pull files out of a windows (NTFS) partition)]
* [http://www.mysolutions.it/change-windows-administrator-account-password/ Reset windows Admin password etc.]
* Lots of other goodies!

SystemrescueCD works at a very low level, so it has tremendous power for god ''and bad'', it is very easy to destroy en existing system if you make a mistake! Be careful and make sure access is restricted as needed!

== Fog 1.1.0 ==

=== System Rescue CD Files ===
On the fog server, download the system rescue CD from [http://www.sysresccd.org/Download http://www.sysresccd.org/Download]. The version used here is 4.2.0, but others should work similarly.

<pre>
cd /tmp
mkdir sysrescueCD
mount -o loop -t iso9660 systemrescuecd-x86-4.2.0.iso /tmp/sysrescueCD
</pre>

I'm running Fog on a Centos/RHEL host so the fog installer script put my web root at /var/www/html/fog. If you are running ubuntu the fog web root will be somewhere else (/var/www/fog maybe?), wherever it is, we to copy the systemrescue files to somewhere fog accessible, I stuck them in the ipxe folder but there may be a better location.
<pre>
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/isolinux/rescue32 /var/www/html/fog/services/ipxe/
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/isolinux/rescue64 /var/www/html/fog/services/ipxe/
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/isolinux/initram.igz /var/www/html/fog/services/ipxe/
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/sysrcd.dat /var/www/html/fog/services/ipxe/
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/sysrcd.md5 /var/www/html/fog/services/ipxe/
</pre>

Everything is now accessible over http so we no longer need to do NFS mounts as we did with fog 0.32.

=== Fog Advanced Menu ===
The fog web UI has an option under "Fog Configuration"->"PXE Boot Menu" for "Advanced Configuration Options". This is where we will add systemrescueCD. In old fog versions, this option gave you a space to tack entries on to the end of the fog menu. In the new system, this menu item is ''chain loaded''. When you select "Advanced" in the fog menu, whatever is in the "Advanced Configuration Options" textbox will be used to generate a completely new menu. Here is an example...

<pre>
#!ipxe
cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386
colour --rgb 0xff6600 2
cpair --foreground 7 --background 2 2
console --picture http://YOUR.FOG.SERVER.IP.HERE/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80
:MENU
menu
colour --rgb 0xff0000 0
cpair --foreground 0 3
item --gap -- -------------------------------------
item fog.sysr64 Run SystemRescue (64 bit)
item fog.sysr32 Run SystemRescue (32 bit)
item fog.local Boot from hard disk
choose target && goto ${target}
:fog.local
sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80 || goto MENU
:fog.sysr64
kernel rescue64 scandelay=1 docache netboot=http://YOUR.FOG.SERVER.IP.HERE/fog/service/ipxe/sysrcd.dat
initrd initram.igz
boot || goto MENU
:fog.sysr32
kernel rescue32 scandelay=1 docache netboot=http://YOUR.FOG.SERVER.IP.HERE/fog/service/ipxe/sysrcd.dat
initrd initram.igz
boot || goto MENU
autoboot
</pre>

Obviously, if you have changed any of the paths to rescue64 or sysrcd.dat above you should update the kernel lines as well.

When you select "Advanced" from the fog boot menu, the menu should reload and give you three options.

* Run SystemRescue (64 bit)
* Run SystemRescue (32 bit)
* Boot from hard disk

=== Securing ===
I'm not familiar enough with iPXE to say how this menu option should be secured, ideally I'd like to put a password on the entry but for the moment the "No Menu" option to the PXE Boot Menu restricts it's use.

== Fog 0.32 ==
Download system rescue CD 3.3.0 (other versions should work) from http://www.sysresccd.org/Download and loopback mounted it.

=== System Rescue CD Files ===
<pre>
cd /tmp
mkdir sysrescueCD
mount -o loop -t iso9660 systemrescuecd-x86-3.3.0.iso /tmp/sysrescueCD
</pre>

On the fog server I created /tftpboot/sysrescue and /images/sysrescue

<pre>
mkdir /tftpboot/sysrescue
mkdir /images/sysrescue
</pre>

Copy the necessary kernel and ramdisk into place.

<pre>
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/isolinux/initram.igz /tftpboot/sysrescue
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/isolinux/rescue32 /tftpboot/sysrescue
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/isolinux/rescue64 /tftpboot/sysrescue
</pre>

Next copy the sysrcd.dat and sysrcd.md5 files into place

<pre>
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/sysrcd.md5 /images/sysrescue
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/sysrcd.dat /images/sysrescue
</pre>

Ensure that the new nfs directory will be exported by adding the following line to /etc/exports

<pre>
/images/sysrescue *(ro,insecure)
</pre>

And export it

<pre>
exportfs -va
</pre>

=== FOG Menu Items ===
The fog menu system can be adjusted manually by editing the file /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default but changes to that file will not be respected when you update fog or if you change one of the PXE configuration settings in the FOG frontend. Instead we can use the frontend to make a persistent change.
<pre>
-> Other Information
-> PXE Boot Menu
-> Advanced Settings
Add any custom text...

LABEL System Rescue CD "Live Image"
LINUX sysrescue/rescue32
INITRD sysrescue/initram.igz
APPEND scandelay=1 docache netboot=nfs://<IP ADDRESS OF YOUR FOG SERVER>:/images/sysrescue setkmap=us
TEXT
SystemRescueCD network boot image (recovery)
ENDTEXT

LABEL System Rescue CD "Live Image" 64 bit
LINUX sysrescue/rescue64
INITRD sysrescue/initram.igz
APPEND scandelay=1 docache netboot=nfs://<IP ADDRESS OF YOUR FOG SERVER>:/images/sysrescue setkmap=us
TEXT
SystemRescueCD network boot image (recovery) 64 bit
ENDTEXT

</pre>

When you boot the client you should now be able to see an entry for ''System Rescue CD "Live Image"'' which will boot SystemRescueCD with networking (and allow you to start X11 if you wish).

Remember to umount the loopback image from the fog server when you are done
<pre>
sudo umount /tmp/sysrescue
</pre>

[[category:pxe]]
[[category:customization]]

Knowledge Base

2014-06-13T18:11:41Z

Iana: Rolled systemrescueCD instructions for 0.32 and 1.10 together

Below are the knowledge base articles on this wiki. We will add more as we resolve and work around any issues.

== General Questions ==

=== Networking Questions ===
*[[Modifying existing DHCP server to work with FOG|Can I use my existing DHCP Server?]]
*[[PXE|What is PXE?]]
*[[Rate/Bandwidth limiting]]

=== Other Questions ===

*[[debianinstaller|Is there an installer for Debian?]]
*[[FOG on a MAC|Can I run the FOG Server on a MAC (G4)?]]
*[[Imaging Windows 2000|Does FOG work with Windows 2000?]]
*[[Imaging Windows 2003|Does FOG work with Windows 2003?]]
*[[Imaging Windows 2008|Does FOG work with Windows 2008?]]
*[[FOG with VMWare|Will FOG work with VMWare?]]
*[[Supported OSes|What OSes does FOG Server run on?]]
*[[Images|Where are images stored?]]
*[[Default Username and Password?]]
*[[What Operating Systems can be imaged with FOG?]]
*[[SATA Support|Can I image SATA drives with FOG?]]
*[[SAS Support|Does Fog support SAS?]]
*[[Ubuntu 12.04 static ip configuration]]

== How-To Guides ==

*[[Backing up FOG]]
*[[Restoring FOG from Backup]]
*[[How to remote control a computer through FOG]]
*[[Multicasting over a router|How to multicast over a router]]
*[[Modifying the Init Image|How can I modify the init.gz file?]]
*[[Changing Serial Number|After making one image, can I change the Windows Serial Number?]]
*[[Upgrading FOG|How do I upgrade FOG?]]
*[[WOL Forwarding|How to forward Wake-on-LAN and DHCP traffic from one subnet to another subnet.]]
*[[Cross-hardware deployment|How to create an XP image that will deploy across different hardware types.]]
*[[Graphical Menu Configruation Advanced |How to modify the PXE menu color / font]]
*[[How to change your pxe background| How to modify the default pxe boot menu background.]]
*[[Bootable Media | Using FOG on removable media.]]
*[[Wake On LAN Bug workaround]]
*[[How to use the wakeonlan perl script instead of etherwake.exe]]
*[[Using a Snapin to update ntuser.man]]
*[[Uninstall FOG]]
*[[SVN|Installing SVN version of FOG]]
*[[Change FOG Server IP Address]]
*[[How to get Macintosh's Netboot working with your FOG server]]
*[[Make Snapins Using FOSS]]
*[[Adding Storage to a FOG Server]]
*[[Bonding Multiple NICs]]
*[[Moving your images directory/Adding Storage to the Images directory]]
*[[How to translate FOG]]
*[[Booting/Imaging a computer without PXE capable Network Card]]
*[[Using FOG with an unmodifiable DHCP server/ Using FOG with no DHCP server]]
*[[How to install window XP using unattended and FOG]]
*[[Build FOG file system with BuildRoot - init.gz ]]
*[[Build FOG Core Kernel ]]
*[[Build TomElliott Kernel]]
*[[Switching to gpxelinux on Ubuntu FOG server]]
*[[Installing the FOG Bypass Host Registration]]
=== PXE Menu Editing / Adding 3rd party software support ===

*[[Boot looping and Chainloading]]
*[[Include DOS based applications into the PXE boot menu]]
*[[Include GParted | Include GParted in the FOG Bootmenu.]]
*[[Include SystemRescueCD | Include SystemRescueCD in the FOG Bootmenu.]]
*[[Include DSL | Include DSL in the FOG Bootmenu.]]
*[[Include Puppy Linux| Include Puppy Linux in the FOG Bootmenu.]]
*[[Create Custom Fog Registration menu| Create Custom Fog Registration process in the FOG Bootmenu.]]
*[[Include Parted Magic | Include Parted Magic in the FOG Bootmenu.]]
*[[Include any ISO in the FOG Bootmenu]]
*[[Edit PXE menu to create sub menus]]

== Knowledge Base Articles ==

=== Installation and Configuration===
*[[tftp timeout....]]
*[[Unable to connect to TFTP]]
*[[MySQL setup error when installing]]
=== The FOG Interface ===
*[[Reset WebUI FOG password]]
*[[Dashboard Error: Permission denied...]]
=== Using FOG ===
*[[gunzip not found]]
*[[Images Directory Permissions|You receive the error: unable to move /images/dev/macaddress to /images/name-of-image when creating an image]]
*[[Error: extended record needed|I keep getting Error: extended record needed, what do I do?]]
*[[Vista won't boot after being imaged?]]
*[[Vista Image says 0xc000000e \windows\system32\winload.exe can not be loaded]]
*[[Error mounting NFS server 127.0.0.1]]
*[[Unable to start task either image, or MAC address is null]]
*[[Kernel Parameters]]
*[[Moving Between Servers]]
*[[Supported Snapin's and Command Line Switches]]
*[[Debug Mode is asking me for a password]]
=== Hook System ===
*[[Hook System]]*
=== FOG Classes ===
*[[FOGController]]*
*[[FOGManagerController]]*

== Troubleshooting ==

*[[Is PC compatible with FOG kernel]]
*[[Multicast]]
*[[Active Directory - FOG Setting]]
*[[PXE error code]]
*[[Error Messages]]
*[[Uninstalling FOG Service on WinXP clients]]
*[[Boot looping and Chainloading]]
*[[Setting up and building UDPCast...Failed!]]

Include SystemRescueCD

2014-06-13T18:10:22Z

Iana: Added configuration information for fog 1.1.0

=System Rescue CD =

[http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page System Rescue CD] is a linux live CD which comes with a huge array of tools for examining/recovering/repairing both linux and windows filesystems. These instructions aim to show you how to add it as an option to the fog boot menu so that it is always available without the need to carry a CD around. It offers you the ability to...

* [http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-Partitioning-EN-Repairing-a-damaged-Grub (re)install grub]
* [http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-Partitioning-EN-Standard-partitioning-tools fsck extfs filesystems before imaging]
* [http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Mounting_an_NTFS_partition_with_full_Read-Write_support Pull files out of a windows (NTFS) partition)]
* [http://www.mysolutions.it/change-windows-administrator-account-password/ Reset windows Admin password etc.]
* Lots of other goodies!

SystemrescueCD works at a very low level, so it has tremendous power for god ''and bad'', it is very easy to destroy en existing system if you make a mistake! Be careful and make sure access is restricted as needed!

== Fog 1.1.0 ==

=== System Rescue CD Files ===
On the fog server, download the system rescue CD from [http://www.sysresccd.org/Download http://www.sysresccd.org/Download]. The version used here is 4.2.0, but others should work similarly.

<pre>
cd /tmp
mkdir sysrescueCD
mount -o loop -t iso9660 systemrescuecd-x86-4.2.0.iso /tmp/sysrescueCD
</pre>

I'm running Fog on a Centos/RHEL host so the fog installer script put my web root at /var/www/html/fog. If you are running ubuntu the fog web root will be somewhere else (/var/www/fog maybe?), wherever it is, we to copy the systemrescue files to somewhere fog accessible, I stuck them in the ipxe folder but there may be a better location.
<pre>
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/rescue32 /var/www/html/fog/services/ipxe/
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/rescue64 /var/www/html/fog/services/ipxe/
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/isolinux/initram.igz /var/www/html/fog/services/ipxe/
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/sysrcd.dat /var/www/html/fog/services/ipxe/
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/sysrcd.md5 /var/www/html/fog/services/ipxe/
</pre>

Everything is now accessible over http so we no longer need to do NFS mounts as we did with fog 0.32.

=== Fog Advanced Menu ===
The fog web UI has an option under "Fog Configuration"->"PXE Boot Menu" for "Advanced Configuration Options". This is where we will add systemrescueCD. In old fog versions, this option gave you a space to tack entries on to the end of the fog menu. In the new system, this menu item is ''chain loaded''. When you select "Advanced" in the fog menu, whatever is in the "Advanced Configuration Options" textbox will be used to generate a completely new menu. Here is an example...

<pre>
#!ipxe
cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386
colour --rgb 0xff6600 2
cpair --foreground 7 --background 2 2
console --picture http://<YOUR FOG SERVER HERE/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80
:MENU
menu
colour --rgb 0xff0000 0
cpair --foreground 0 3
item --gap -- -------------------------------------
item fog.sysr64 Run SystemRescue (64 bit)
item fog.sysr32 Run SystemRescue (32 bit)
item fog.local Boot from hard disk
choose target && goto ${target}
:fog.local
sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80 || goto MENU
:fog.sysr64
kernel rescue64 scandelay=1 docache netboot=http://<YOUR FOG SERVER HERE>/fog/service/ipxe/sysrcd.dat
initrd initram.igz
boot || goto MENU
:fog.sysr32
kernel rescue32 scandelay=1 docache netboot=http://<YOUR FOG SERVER HERE>/fog/service/ipxe/sysrcd.dat
initrd initram.igz
boot || goto MENU
autoboot
</pre>

Obviously, if you have changed any of the paths to rescue64 or sysrcd.dat above you should update the kernel lines as well.

When you select "Advanced" from the fog boot menu, the menu should reload and give you three options.

* Run SystemRescue (64 bit)
* Run SystemRescue (32 bit)
* Boot from hard disk

=== Securing ===
I'm not familiar enough with iPXE to say how this menu option should be secured, ideally I'd like to put a password on the entry but for the moment the "No Menu" option to the PXE Boot Menu restricts it's use.

== Fog 0.32 ==
Download system rescue CD 3.3.0 (other versions should work) from http://www.sysresccd.org/Download and loopback mounted it.

=== System Rescue CD Files ===
<pre>
cd /tmp
mkdir sysrescueCD
mount -o loop -t iso9660 systemrescuecd-x86-3.3.0.iso /tmp/sysrescueCD
</pre>

On the fog server I created /tftpboot/sysrescue and /images/sysrescue

<pre>
mkdir /tftpboot/sysrescue
mkdir /images/sysrescue
</pre>

Copy the necessary kernel and ramdisk into place.

<pre>
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/isolinux/initram.igz /tftpboot/sysrescue
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/isolinux/rescue32 /tftpboot/sysrescue
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/isolinux/rescue64 /tftpboot/sysrescue
</pre>

Next copy the sysrcd.dat and sysrcd.md5 files into place

<pre>
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/sysrcd.md5 /images/sysrescue
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/sysrcd.dat /images/sysrescue
</pre>

Ensure that the new nfs directory will be exported by adding the following line to /etc/exports

<pre>
/images/sysrescue *(ro,insecure)
</pre>

And export it

<pre>
exportfs -va
</pre>

=== FOG Menu Items ===
The fog menu system can be adjusted manually by editing the file /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default but changes to that file will not be respected when you update fog or if you change one of the PXE configuration settings in the FOG frontend. Instead we can use the frontend to make a persistent change.
<pre>
-> Other Information
-> PXE Boot Menu
-> Advanced Settings
Add any custom text...

LABEL System Rescue CD "Live Image"
LINUX sysrescue/rescue32
INITRD sysrescue/initram.igz
APPEND scandelay=1 docache netboot=nfs://<IP ADDRESS OF YOUR FOG SERVER>:/images/sysrescue setkmap=us
TEXT
SystemRescueCD network boot image (recovery)
ENDTEXT

LABEL System Rescue CD "Live Image" 64 bit
LINUX sysrescue/rescue64
INITRD sysrescue/initram.igz
APPEND scandelay=1 docache netboot=nfs://<IP ADDRESS OF YOUR FOG SERVER>:/images/sysrescue setkmap=us
TEXT
SystemRescueCD network boot image (recovery) 64 bit
ENDTEXT

</pre>

When you boot the client you should now be able to see an entry for ''System Rescue CD "Live Image"'' which will boot SystemRescueCD with networking (and allow you to start X11 if you wish).

Remember to umount the loopback image from the fog server when you are done
<pre>
sudo umount /tmp/sysrescue
</pre>

[[category:pxe]]
[[category:customization]]

Knowledge Base

2014-06-13T17:07:21Z

Iana: /* PXE Menu Editing / Adding 3rd party software support */

Below are the knowledge base articles on this wiki. We will add more as we resolve and work around any issues.

== General Questions ==

=== Networking Questions ===
*[[Modifying existing DHCP server to work with FOG|Can I use my existing DHCP Server?]]
*[[PXE|What is PXE?]]
*[[Rate/Bandwidth limiting]]

=== Other Questions ===

*[[debianinstaller|Is there an installer for Debian?]]
*[[FOG on a MAC|Can I run the FOG Server on a MAC (G4)?]]
*[[Imaging Windows 2000|Does FOG work with Windows 2000?]]
*[[Imaging Windows 2003|Does FOG work with Windows 2003?]]
*[[Imaging Windows 2008|Does FOG work with Windows 2008?]]
*[[FOG with VMWare|Will FOG work with VMWare?]]
*[[Supported OSes|What OSes does FOG Server run on?]]
*[[Images|Where are images stored?]]
*[[Default Username and Password?]]
*[[What Operating Systems can be imaged with FOG?]]
*[[SATA Support|Can I image SATA drives with FOG?]]
*[[SAS Support|Does Fog support SAS?]]
*[[Ubuntu 12.04 static ip configuration]]

== How-To Guides ==

*[[Backing up FOG]]
*[[Restoring FOG from Backup]]
*[[How to remote control a computer through FOG]]
*[[Multicasting over a router|How to multicast over a router]]
*[[Modifying the Init Image|How can I modify the init.gz file?]]
*[[Changing Serial Number|After making one image, can I change the Windows Serial Number?]]
*[[Upgrading FOG|How do I upgrade FOG?]]
*[[WOL Forwarding|How to forward Wake-on-LAN and DHCP traffic from one subnet to another subnet.]]
*[[Cross-hardware deployment|How to create an XP image that will deploy across different hardware types.]]
*[[Graphical Menu Configruation Advanced |How to modify the PXE menu color / font]]
*[[How to change your pxe background| How to modify the default pxe boot menu background.]]
*[[Bootable Media | Using FOG on removable media.]]
*[[Wake On LAN Bug workaround]]
*[[How to use the wakeonlan perl script instead of etherwake.exe]]
*[[Using a Snapin to update ntuser.man]]
*[[Uninstall FOG]]
*[[SVN|Installing SVN version of FOG]]
*[[Change FOG Server IP Address]]
*[[How to get Macintosh's Netboot working with your FOG server]]
*[[Make Snapins Using FOSS]]
*[[Adding Storage to a FOG Server]]
*[[Bonding Multiple NICs]]
*[[Moving your images directory/Adding Storage to the Images directory]]
*[[How to translate FOG]]
*[[Booting/Imaging a computer without PXE capable Network Card]]
*[[Using FOG with an unmodifiable DHCP server/ Using FOG with no DHCP server]]
*[[How to install window XP using unattended and FOG]]
*[[Build FOG file system with BuildRoot - init.gz ]]
*[[Build FOG Core Kernel ]]
*[[Build TomElliott Kernel]]
*[[Switching to gpxelinux on Ubuntu FOG server]]
*[[Installing the FOG Bypass Host Registration]]
=== PXE Menu Editing / Adding 3rd party software support ===

*[[Boot looping and Chainloading]]
*[[Include DOS based applications into the PXE boot menu]]
*[[Include GParted | Include GParted in the FOG Bootmenu.]]
*[[Include SystemRescueCD | Include SystemRescueCD in the FOG 0.32 Bootmenu.]]
*[[Include SystemRescueCD 1.1.0| Include SystemRescueCD in the FOG 1.1.0 Bootmenu.]]
*[[Include DSL | Include DSL in the FOG Bootmenu.]]
*[[Include Puppy Linux| Include Puppy Linux in the FOG Bootmenu.]]
*[[Create Custom Fog Registration menu| Create Custom Fog Registration process in the FOG Bootmenu.]]
*[[Include Parted Magic | Include Parted Magic in the FOG Bootmenu.]]
*[[Include any ISO in the FOG Bootmenu]]
*[[Edit PXE menu to create sub menus]]

== Knowledge Base Articles ==

=== Installation and Configuration===
*[[tftp timeout....]]
*[[Unable to connect to TFTP]]
*[[MySQL setup error when installing]]
=== The FOG Interface ===
*[[Reset WebUI FOG password]]
*[[Dashboard Error: Permission denied...]]
=== Using FOG ===
*[[gunzip not found]]
*[[Images Directory Permissions|You receive the error: unable to move /images/dev/macaddress to /images/name-of-image when creating an image]]
*[[Error: extended record needed|I keep getting Error: extended record needed, what do I do?]]
*[[Vista won't boot after being imaged?]]
*[[Vista Image says 0xc000000e \windows\system32\winload.exe can not be loaded]]
*[[Error mounting NFS server 127.0.0.1]]
*[[Unable to start task either image, or MAC address is null]]
*[[Kernel Parameters]]
*[[Moving Between Servers]]
*[[Supported Snapin's and Command Line Switches]]
*[[Debug Mode is asking me for a password]]
=== Hook System ===
*[[Hook System]]*
=== FOG Classes ===
*[[FOGController]]*
*[[FOGManagerController]]*

== Troubleshooting ==

*[[Is PC compatible with FOG kernel]]
*[[Multicast]]
*[[Active Directory - FOG Setting]]
*[[PXE error code]]
*[[Error Messages]]
*[[Uninstalling FOG Service on WinXP clients]]
*[[Boot looping and Chainloading]]
*[[Setting up and building UDPCast...Failed!]]

Include SystemRescueCD

2013-01-28T21:05:33Z

Iana:

[http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page|system rescue CD] will boot from the fog pxe menu without too much trouble. This distro has forensic tools for disaster recovery and is small enough to boot quickly. System rescue CD is based on [http://www.gentoo.org/|gentoo linux].

=== System Rescue CD Files ===
Download system rescue CD 3.3.0 from http://www.sysresccd.org/Download and loopback mounted it.

<pre>
cd /tmp
mkdir sysrescueCD
mount -o loop -t iso9660 systemrescuecd-x86-3.3.0.iso /tmp/sysrescueCD
</pre>

On the fog server I created /tftpboot/sysrescue and /images/sysrescue

<pre>
mkdir /tftpboot/sysrescue
mkdir /images/sysrescue
</pre>

Copy the necessary kernel and ramdisk into place.

<pre>
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/isolinux/initram.igz /tftpboot/sysrescue
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/isolinux/rescue32 /tftpboot/sysrescue
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/isolinux/rescue64 /tftpboot/sysrescue
</pre>

Next copy the sysrcd.dat and sysrcd.md5 files into place

<pre>
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/sysrcd.md5 /images/sysrescue
cp /tmp/sysrescueCD/sysrcd.dat /images/sysrescue
</pre>

Ensure that the new nfs directory will be exported by adding the following line to /etc/exports

<pre>
/images/sysrescue *(ro,insecure)
</pre>

And export it

<pre>
exportfs -va
</pre>

=== FOG Menu Items ===
The fog menu system can be adjusted manually by editing the file /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default but changes to that file will not be respected when you update fog or if you change one of the PXE configuration settings in the FOG frontend. Instead we can use the frontend to make a persistent change.
<pre>
-> Other Information
-> PXE Boot Menu
-> Advanced Settings
Add any custom text...

LABEL System Rescue CD "Live Image"
LINUX sysrescue/rescue32
INITRD sysrescue/initram.igz
APPEND scandelay=1 docache netboot=nfs://<IP ADDRESS OF YOUR FOG SERVER>:/images/sysrescue setkmap=us
TEXT
SystemRescueCD network boot image (recovery)
ENDTEXT

LABEL System Rescue CD "Live Image" 64 bit
LINUX sysrescue/rescue64
INITRD sysrescue/initram.igz
APPEND scandelay=1 docache netboot=nfs://<IP ADDRESS OF YOUR FOG SERVER>:/images/sysrescue setkmap=us
TEXT
SystemRescueCD network boot image (recovery) 64 bit
ENDTEXT

</pre>

When you boot the client you should now be able to see an entry for ''System Rescue CD "Live Image"'' which will boot SystemRescueCD with networking (and allow you to start X11 if you wish).

Remember to umount the loopback image from the fog server when you are done
<pre>
sudo umount /tmp/sysrescue
</pre>

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SystemRescueCD

2010-07-14T18:13:35Z

Iana: moved SystemRescueCD to Include SystemRescueCD: Match other items in the Knowledge Base

#REDIRECT [[Include SystemRescueCD]]