Thanks Joshua. I use ipmitool to activate the session like this: ipmitool -I lanplus -H <hostname> -U root -P <password> sol activate Thanks for your hint, I am new to PXE - so I blindly copied what was on the website to the "/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default.cfg". My original PXE was configured to install ubuntu, it looked like this and it worked. default menu.c32 MENU TITLE "Ubuntu PXE Boot Menu" LABEL Ubuntu MENU LABEL Ubuntu 14.04.3 (x86_64) KERNEL ubuntu/14.04/x86_64/install/netboot/ubuntu-installer/amd64/linux IPAPPEND 1 APPEND console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200n8 auto=true priority=high vga=788 initrd=ubuntu/14.04/x86_64/install/netboot/ubuntu-installer/amd64/initrd.gz url=http://<ipaddress>/ubuntu/14.04/x86_64/preseed/ubuntu-server.seed live-installer/net-image=http://<ipaddress>/ubuntu/14.04/x86_64/install/filesystem.squashfs ksdevice=em1 locale=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us interface=em1 hostname=unassigned I changed it to: default menu.c32 MENU TITLE "SmartOS PXE Boot Menu" LABEL SmartOS MENU LABEL SmartOS KERNEL mboot.c32 IPAPPEND 1 APPEND smartos/platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix -B smartos=true,console=text,root_shadow='$5$2HOHRnK3$NvLlm.1KQBbB0WjoP7xcIwGnllhzp2HnT.mDO7DpxYA' --- smartos/platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive Now when I reset the power, this is what I see: mboot.c32 smartos/platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix -B smartos=true,console=tex t,root_shadow='$5$2HOHRnK3$NvLlm.1KQBbB0WjoP7xcIwGnllhzp2HnT.mDO7DpxYA' --- smar tos/platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive ip=<ip-address>:<ip-address-of-pxe-server>:<ip-address-of gateway>:255.255.255.0 Loading smartos/platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix... ok Loading smartos/platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive... SunOS Release 5.11 Version joyent_20160218T022556Z 64-bit I think it tried to install when I left last night, but when I checked this morning, I could neither ping nor "ipmitool session activate" which I was hoping to take me to a command prompt. Thanks, Suresh On 2/26/16, 5:32 PM, "Joshua M. Clulow" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 26 February 2016 at 17:15, Kumar, Suresh <[email protected]<mailto:[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
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