Hi I’m attempting to configure a collection of servers (Supermicro) to run SmartOS.
I’m having difficultly figuring out how to configure the bios, ipxe, and smartos so that from a serial port/console I would see the entire bios sequence, pxeboot, ipxemenu, and then finally the smartos console. I attempted to set the bios “remote console” to com1, and also configured the ipxe menu item for smartos to use com1 as well, both using the same baud rate settings. This would work until I selected/booted smartos from the ipxe menu, I’d get 1 or two smartos boot lines, and then nothing. I then turned off console redirection, and just set smartos to use com1 serial console. With that, I do get a serial console on com1 after the system boots, but I don’t get to see the ipxe menu itself. Any suggestions about how to configure this? It looks like there is an ipxe build option to use a serial port. So at the cost of having to build ipxe, it seems like I could get both the ipxe menu and the smartos console on the same serial port (untested). In other situations (different hardware and OS - Solaris10), I was able to get all of the above working on a single serial port/console. Don ------------------------------------------- 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
