On 5/20/15 0:27 , Trond Norbye wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a Dell Poweredge R710 server in my basement Ive been running > SmartOS on for a long time. Unfortunately its been a long time since I > upgraded its version, so I'm still running > > - SmartOS Live Image v0.147+ build: 20130725T202435Z > > When I tried to reboot the using the latest bits it just "crash" during the > boot sequence and reboots before I get a chance to figure out why ;-) > > I'd love to be able to upgrade my box so that I could try out the lx-zones > (I'm using the server to test my software on a number of other platforms). > How should I start trying to figure out why it fails? I guess there is some > options to grub to allow me to get more information out of the box (or > perhaps it already generated a kernel crash dump I can look at).
It sounds like it's crashing fairly early on in boot. If it did produce an operating system crash dump, you'd be able to find it in /var/crash/volatile when the system came back up. Presuming it did not, the best thing to do would be to first make sure you're configured to use a serial console, the easiest way with Dell being the IPMI Serial over LAN console and then when booting, make sure that you boot with kmdb. There should be an option in the grub menu to do this, otherwise append -k. When you panic, it should instead drop you into the kernel debugger and this is where the serial console's copy and paste come in handy. If you can inform us of what that message is, then we can go from there. If you need additional assistance with these steps, don't hesitate to reach out on the mailing list or to come in ask in the #smartos IRC channel on freenode.net. Robert ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
