Hello,
In my quest to try to find a combined container/VM management platform for my homelab, my journey has taken me to SmartOS, Triton Datacentre, and eventually Danube Cloud as a nice way to have the best of LXCs, Docker, Bhyve and KVM all in one lean platform, with a robust implementation of ZFS to boot (literally) and a GUI to manage it all.
The trouble is, I'm admitting defeat on actually booting it. I'm running all Lenovo P350 Tinys (so, 11th Gen systems), and either SmartOS itself or Danube Cloud will both boot off a USB, show a menu, then unpack the compressed system, then I get "Booting ..." on a blue background and then it just hangs forever. OmniOS clears the screen after the booting message but then nothing.
I've read everything I can find to try to resolve, since I have no extra output to go on even with verbose set. I have tried both physical USB keys and attaching images via PiKVM with no change in behaviour. The only thing I can see which may be a concern is the fact that the P350s USB controllers are all USB 3.x. I'm also unable to get it to iPXE boot - SmartOS seems not to be on the netboot.xyz menu any more.
Does anyone have any bright ideas/experience to offer?
In my quest to try to find a combined container/VM management platform for my homelab, my journey has taken me to SmartOS, Triton Datacentre, and eventually Danube Cloud as a nice way to have the best of LXCs, Docker, Bhyve and KVM all in one lean platform, with a robust implementation of ZFS to boot (literally) and a GUI to manage it all.
The trouble is, I'm admitting defeat on actually booting it. I'm running all Lenovo P350 Tinys (so, 11th Gen systems), and either SmartOS itself or Danube Cloud will both boot off a USB, show a menu, then unpack the compressed system, then I get "Booting ..." on a blue background and then it just hangs forever. OmniOS clears the screen after the booting message but then nothing.
I've read everything I can find to try to resolve, since I have no extra output to go on even with verbose set. I have tried both physical USB keys and attaching images via PiKVM with no change in behaviour. The only thing I can see which may be a concern is the fact that the P350s USB controllers are all USB 3.x. I'm also unable to get it to iPXE boot - SmartOS seems not to be on the netboot.xyz menu any more.
Does anyone have any bright ideas/experience to offer?