On 26 February 2016 at 17:15, Kumar, Suresh <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to add SmartOS to our existing PXE environment; I pretty much > followed the instructions from here: > https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/PXE+Booting+SmartOS > > I was able to open a session with ipmitool, but I realized that the SmartOS > is not installed and the boot happened through ramdisk and many of my > services (including network) did not start.
What command-line are you using with "ipmitool" to do this? > I thought setting smartos=true will install the OS, but that did not happen. > Any clues as to what I am doing wrong and how do I debug? Booting with "smartos=true" is definitely the way to go. This makes the platform image boot up and operate as a SmartOS machine. If no "zones" ZFS pool exists on the disks in the system, the installer will be started on the default system console. > I tried removing some relevant flags (noimport=true), during which the PXE > boot just hangs and does not complete. You don't want "noimport=true", or "standalone=true". Just "smartos=true". > Here is my default.cfg: > default smartos > prompt 1 > timeout 50 > label smartos > kernel mboot.c32 > append smartos/platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix -B > smartos=true,console=text,standalone=true,noimport=true,root_shadow='$5$2HOHRnK3$NvLlm.1KQBbB0WjoP7xcIwGnllhzp2HnT.mDO7DpxYA' > --- smartos/platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive What bootloader are you chainloading to the client? I don't recognise this configuration syntax. Cheers. -- Joshua M. Clulow UNIX Admin/Developer http://blog.sysmgr.org ------------------------------------------- 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
