I was able to get the system going by replacing the USB key with a newly imaged one. I have the old key and installed an openindiana VM to see what might have gone wrong (and to try and get a couple zone config files). I have another server here in the office that is meant for SmartOS, so I will pop the old USB into it to see what happens. During the trouble-shooting I did check out the console variable - It was set to vga and I manually set the variable again anyway to no avail. I also tried playing with BIOS, but that may have been a red herring. Thanks! Adrian From: "Brian Bennett" <brian.benn...@joyent.com> To: "smartos-discuss" <smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 8:57:52 AM Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] Replace SmartOS USB Key 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. | [ http://www.joyent.com/ | www.joyent.com ] On Jun 19, 2018, at 8:23 AM, Adrian Thompson < [ mailto:athomp...@successos.com | athomp...@successos.com ] > 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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