Adrian,

Before getting too far into this, at the grub prompt there will be a statement 
toward the bottom that says what the current console device is. If the device 
is ttyb or serial then it's normal to see the output you describe on the VGA 
console. It wouldn't mean that there's a problem, just that the output is being 
sent elsewhere.

To change that, follow the sub-steps under step 6 here: 
https://github.com/joyent/triton/blob/master/README.md#cloud-on-a-laptop-coal 
<https://github.com/joyent/triton/blob/master/README.md#cloud-on-a-laptop-coal>

If the console already is going where you expect it to be, then there's 
something else going on and we'll need to diagnose it differently.


-- 
Brian Bennett
Systems Engineer, Cloud Operations
Joyent, Inc. | www.joyent.com <http://www.joyent.com/>

> On Jun 19, 2018, at 8:23 AM, Adrian Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a SmartOS running a website, secondary website and a database in three 
> zones.  I just had a power failure and now the USB won't boot.  After GRUB I 
> get nothing but a cursor. After about 20 seconds the cursor seems to get 
> thicker visually (but continues to blink) and then ctrl-alt-del no longer 
> works and I have to hard boot.
> 
> Is it okay to grab a new USB, burn a SmartOS image and fire it up?  Or will I 
> need to recover data from the USB?
> 
> Thank you in advance!
> Adrian
> 
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