I would like to log the USB boot process, in a way that will survive the boot failure, to try and figure out why the USB boot is failing.
Suggestions how to best do this will be very welcome. GRUB displays the boot menu, I select 'no install' (or install, result is the same) the SmartOS banner briefly displays, followed by a screen of output which goes by too fast to read, then the server reboots, and this cycle repeats. About the only thing I can see is 'Warning stack not written to the dump buffer' , a number of lines starting acpica, then some starting unix. Before asking for more specific help, how could I capture the output of the boot process to a log file on the USB drive which would survive the the boot failure, so I could see what is going wrong? I have tried the USB on a laptop, and while the boot process reports a number of various issues related to the laptop hardware, it does eventually load SmartOS. I have tried creating the USB twice, I don't think there is anything wrong with the USB image, or at least it is a faithful representation of what is available for download. It is the 20140904 image. HP DL380 G6, Dual Intel X5550, 48GB RAM, 2 SAS, 6 SATA drives (I have tried pulling out all the drives out and running 'no install', same result) , LSI 9211-8i 6Gb/S PCI-Express 2.0 Controller, no RAID, running as JBOD (HP on board controller disabled in BIOS) 4 on board NICs, 8 additional NICs on HP PCIe cards USB 2 The machine boots to Linux fine, all hardware recognized by Linux, no issues. Thanks so much for any advice on capturing the boot process to a log file. ------------------------------------------- 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
