Re: [OmniOS-discuss] weird issue with active BE on new Omnios CE install

[Joseph Boren]

Arghhh, are you freaking kidding me?!?   At least I was right about it
being something I was doing.  :)

Thank you Andy, I appreciate the reminder.  Embarrassing, but I guess it's
not wasted time if I learned something.  Or re-learned it in this case...
Thanks again!

Cheers!


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On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Andy Fiddaman 
wrote:

>
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Joseph Boren wrote:
>
> ; Greetings,
> ;
> ; Had a strange thing happen with a new server build today.  Installing
> ; r151022q on a new Supermicro X11SSH-CTF motherboard, downloaded the flash
> ; drive image, burned to a 64Gb USB flash drive, installed just fine,
> ; rebooted, all is well.  Installed napp-it, which creates a new BE and
> sets
> ; it active.  Rebooted and let it try to boot into the new BE and got this:
> ;
> ; Loading now
> ; can't find 'now'
> ; can't find 'now'
>
> How are you rebooting?
> If you are using 'reboot now' then it will result in this behaviour.
>
> Use just 'reboot' or 'init 6' - it isn't Linux : )
>
> Andy
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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] weird issue with active BE on new Omnios CE install

[Andy Fiddaman]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Joseph Boren wrote:

; Greetings,
;
; Had a strange thing happen with a new server build today.  Installing
; r151022q on a new Supermicro X11SSH-CTF motherboard, downloaded the flash
; drive image, burned to a 64Gb USB flash drive, installed just fine,
; rebooted, all is well.  Installed napp-it, which creates a new BE and sets
; it active.  Rebooted and let it try to boot into the new BE and got this:
;
; Loading now
; can't find 'now'
; can't find 'now'

How are you rebooting?
If you are using 'reboot now' then it will result in this behaviour.

Use just 'reboot' or 'init 6' - it isn't Linux : )

Andy

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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] weird issue with active BE on new Omnios CE install

[John D Groenveld]

In message 
, Joseph Boren writes:
>Loading now
>can't find 'now'
>can't find 'now'

Has the stench of reboot(1M) now 
   boot_arguments

   An optional boot_arguments specifies arguments to the uadmin(2)
   function that are passed to the boot program and kernel upon
   restart. The form and list of arguments is described in the
   boot(1M) and kernel(1M) man pages.. If the arguments are specified,
   whitespace between them is replaced by single spaces unless the
   whitespace is quoted for the shell. If the boot_arguments begin
   with a hyphen, they must be preceded by the -- delimiter (two
   hyphens) to denote the end of the reboot argument list.

I find shutdown(1M) and init(1M) are safer when moving between OSs.

John
groenv...@acm.org
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[OmniOS-discuss] weird issue with active BE on new Omnios CE install

[Joseph Boren]

Greetings,

Had a strange thing happen with a new server build today.  Installing
r151022q on a new Supermicro X11SSH-CTF motherboard, downloaded the flash
drive image, burned to a 64Gb USB flash drive, installed just fine,
rebooted, all is well.  Installed napp-it, which creates a new BE and sets
it active.  Rebooted and let it try to boot into the new BE and got this:

Loading now
can't find 'now'
can't find 'now'

Loading /boot/defualts/loader.conf
Loading now.
can't find 'now'
can't find 'now'

Type ? for a list of commands *blah blah blah*
ok

Rebooted and selected the BE from before the install and it booted fine.
So I created a new BE with beadmin, set it active, and rebooted and got the
same error.  So I set the old (working) BE active and rebooted again, and
now I'm getting that same error on that BE too.  Rebooted yet again,
selected the new, manually created BE and it booted just fine.  Set it
active and rebooted again - now that BE is broken too.  Rebooted for the
millionth time and selected the other (old - not active) BE and lo and
behold it boots just fine.

So it appears that whatever BE is set active will not boot.  I believe
that's actual irony right there.  Any non-active BE will boot just fine if
selected in the loader screen.

Anyone seen this problem before?  Any Ideas what may be going on?  It's
probably my fault somehow

Thanks,

Joseph Boren

IT Specialist

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