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== Enable SSH ==
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# At the console, press <code>F2</code> and login
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# Select <code>Troubleshooting Options</code>
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# Select <code>Enable SSH</code>
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# Press <code>ESC</code> to logout
  
 
== Hanging on ipmi_si_drv ==
 
== Hanging on ipmi_si_drv ==

Revision as of 22:59, 27 September 2011

Enable SSH

  1. At the console, press F2 and login
  2. Select Troubleshooting Options
  3. Select Enable SSH
  4. Press ESC to logout

Hanging on ipmi_si_drv

  1. Press Shift + O and append noipmiEnabled to the boot args
  2. Once booted, connect with vSphere and add uncheck VMkernel.Boot.impiEnabled

Use SATA drive as an RDM

  1. Login as root
  2. Run fdisk -l and locate the disk you wish to use
  3. Run ls /dev/disks/ -l and locate the symlink to that disk
  4. Goto the correct directory to place the new vmdk
  5. Run vmkfstools -r /vmfs/devices/disks/<symlink> RDM.vmdk -a lsilogic
    1. Disk type
      • -r - create Virtual device
      • -z - create Physical (passthrough) device - careful with these
    2. Controller -a ...
      • buslogic - probrably not
      • lsilogic
      • ide
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