What could be the reason that I can’t import with linbo at all, I wanted to add a new client registered from pxe boot. It wrote out as successful, but then it didn’t start client with the right ip and hardware class, I thought I would do it manually on the server, but got stuck at the import check syntax check. After that I restored the previous devices.csv from the bak file, tried to restart the server, but the situation was unchanged.
I also don’t know if it matters that I have installed the latest lmn update, which also affected linbo, before that I could import without problems, I could restore from snapshot, but unfortunately I did that last time last Thursday, and since then I have just finished my linbo images, which would be nice not to fail and start over…
Hi Fenyő,
you can try sophomorix-device --dry-run instead and see if you get more details with it. Most of the time there’s a syntax error in the devices.csv.
In the meantime I somehow managed to bring it to life with a samba restrart (I don’t know what it has to do with it), but it’s an older desktop client (3rd gen i5 8gb ram and ssd) and when it pxe loads it says that the nbp is too big to fit the memory, is there anything to do with that?
The problem seems to be that this machine can’t boot with efi with pxe, only in legacy mode, although the option is there in the bios, but if I set it to uefi ipv4 nothing happens, it can only handle the operating system in uefi mode, but not pxe
With a Linbo Pendrive (as I read somewhere) this can be overridden, I mean if the device itself is in uefi hardware class but can’t do uefi pxe only from normal data drives, if such a uefi linbo pen could get around it?
I don’t know whether there is a connection here … but maybe post the line for this client here!?
Did you (re-)activate it with # in your devices.csv or is the file unchanged?
the nbp Message is usuall, when you set a Cleint in start.conf as uefi oot, but you boot the Client in BIOS mode.
For the other Problem:
Take a close look at the File
/etc/linuxmuster/default-school/devices.csv
There must bee a Mistake in that.
Count the Numbers ob Columns in each Line (One Column is between the Semikola)
Thank you all for your comments, but yesterday a samba restart solved the issue, the sophomorix syntax checks all ran without error before, so it was strange that it was referring to a faulty syntax.
I have since been able to bring up the old client in device manager which can only pxe in legacy mode. The solution was to copy the linbo.iso to a usb stick, and from there I could boot linbo from efi (of course I had to edit linbo.cfg, because the default 3 dhcprety is simply too little in most cases), from there I could clone Win 11 and Zorin from the existing efi image files, they work fine from the client from the already installed linbo grub. This saved me from having to make a separate legacy image.
By the way, today was a day on duty at school, so I was able to have a look at this topic again, and I noticed that the client is correctly entered in the last-regtistered file when registering linbo with pxe, but it is not transferred to devices.csv, I can only write there with global-admin webgui or root, could this be some kind of permissions problem. What permissions does linbo admin have?
