[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing 151a5 server from USB over serial console

[Dustin Marquess]

It's a standard Supermicro machine.  Tried with console redirection
after boot both enabled and disabled.

Ended up just setting up an AI server on a VM and installing it that way.

-Dustin

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:29 AM, James Carlson
<carlsonj at workingcode.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/12 19:48, Dustin Marquess wrote:
>> So I tried taking the original .usb image and writing it, w/o any
>> changes.  The problem is the last thing I see on the serial console is
>> just:
>>
>> GRUB
>>
>> So there's no way to edit the menu and add the command line arguments
>> to the kernel.
>
> In that case, I think you might have a BIOS problem.  I've done exactly
> this on headless Sun X4500 systems, and all I had to do was tell the
> BIOS to redirect to the serial console, and that's where the GRUB menus
> appeared.
>
>> Surely I'm not the only one trying to do this?
>
> On whatever hardware you're using with whatever limitations and/or
> configuration it might have?  Possibly so.
>
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> James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj at workingcode.com>