You need remote reset or remote power cycle capability. An ILOM console, if your hardware has support for it would provide this.
ILOM is common on most server class hardware ( Sun servers certainly have it, so do Supermicro boards). Failing that, there are inexpensive remote power cycle power outlets you can buy. These allow power control of the individual power plugs remotely. Steve ----- Original Message ----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just upgraded an aged OpenSolaris 2009.6 to OpenIndiana 148 and I have a silly but annoying issue. When doing "init 6" or, even, "reboot", the OS shutdowns and reboot inmediatelly, but the machine not actually reboots. That is, the system is shutdown and the kernel reboots inmediatelly, just like would do a "zone reboot", but the machine doesn't powercycle, doesn't show the BIOS, doesn't show the POST, and, the really annoying thing in this case, doesn't show the GRUB menu. And this is critical to me. The machine is in a remote datacenter, but I have KVM access. What can I do?. My GRUB entry is: (just in case is something related to the way I launch OI) """ root@ns224064:~# cat /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst default 2 timeout 10 title opensolaris-2 bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-2 kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -v -B $ZFS-BOOTFS module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive #============ End of LIBBE entry ============= title SOLARIS10 rootnoverify (hd2,0) chainloader +1 title OpenIndiana-148 bootfs rpool/ROOT/OpenIndiana-148 kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -v -B $ZFS-BOOTFS module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive #============ End of LIBBE entry ============= """ - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ j...@jcea.es - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:j...@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ . _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQCVAwUBTjrnwJlgi5GaxT1NAQLoJAQAn26zsDa2nbKz8c1gmVFA/R4ODB0Y1SHf hY8k9f96PEABlyAo9gI5ggijFzAzGmNzlGwwJVgEwZllbcnBZjhFL2RA2zHLbstU 4CvWUhVsKZuKPukIUs5136ezZLaxGmJ76UnaMo1xk8J+NNtGfrCCil/C8sBCmZYR Hlntc/HVDmc= =JsqL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
