Paul, That’s interesting. We are running SmartOS on our Gen 8 Microservers for the last 18+ months - without issues when it comes to USB booting.SmartOS installed on the internal SD with BIOS set to USB boot. Booting from a stick on the external USB seems to always have higher priority. However, if that is unplugged again the Microserver falls back to booting from the internal sd card. What you describe sounds like the issues with had with other OS’s that boot from disk, though. That order changed with every disk swap/plugin/removal. Extremely annoying. Fortunately not with USB (from my experience).
Best regards, Peter > Am 28.09.2015 um 18:57 schrieb Paul Sture <[email protected]>: > > On 28 Sep 2015, at 9:41, Greg Zartman wrote: > >> I have a SmartOS box that has been running well for quite some time. I >> updated the USB stick to the current SmartOS and it just hangs after >> getting to the boot screen where SmartOS reports the OS version (right >> after the grub screen). I've also tried the recovery boot options (no >> install) with the same result. >> >> I'm curious if anyone has had a similar experience and also if there's >> something I can do to get past this hanging? I even tried a slightly >> older version of SmartOS with no luck. > > What kind of system is it? > > The reason I ask is that the BIOS in my HP MicroServer is a pain in the > neck when set to boot from USB. If you plug a "new" USB device in (you > can trigger this simply by unplugging then re-plugging any USB disk), > it adjusts the boot order so that on the next boot it will try to boot > from that disk. > > -- > Paul Sture > ------------------------------------------- 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
