[OmniOS-discuss] Installing OmniOS on a X4500 via PXE?

Eric Sproul esproul at omniti.com
Tue Jul 23 13:50:22 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Peter Eriksson <peter at ifm.liu.se> wrote:
> I've tried following the instructions in the Wiki on network-installing OmniOS on one of our Sun X4500 Thumpers but the kernel just panics and crashed at the boot stage. Has anyone else succeded in doing this before and have some pointers?
>
> (We PXE-boot from a Solaris 10 box).
>
> It works PXE-booting SmartOS on the same box - so I think it *should* work... :-)

Indeed. Could you share what the panic is (maybe a screenshot, maybe
via a serial console if that system can be configured for it) and what
release you're installing?

Thanks,
Eric


More information about the OmniOS-discuss mailing list