To close the loop on this, this configuration worked. I suspect the console
flags were the culprits.
default menu.c32
MENU TITLE “SmartOS PXE Boot Menu"
LABEL SmartOS
MENU LABEL SmartOS
KERNEL mboot.c32
APPEND smartos/platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix -v -B
smartos=true,console=ttyb,ttyb-mode="115200,8,n,1,-",root_shadow='$5$2HOHRnK3$NvLlm.1KQBbB0WjoP7xcIwGnllhzp2HnT.mDO7DpxYA'
--- smartos/platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive
From: SAP SAP <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To:
"[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>"
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 9:23 AM
To:
"[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>"
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] Installing SmartOS using PXE boot
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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