• Use the minicom -D /dev/devicename command from Linux (/dev/ttyUSB0)
• Serial configuration: 9600 8-N-1
• At the → prompt, start /SYS starts ILOM, start /HOST/console starts pre-boot console
• At the {0} ok prompt, typically the boot command should work
• Use probe-scsi-all to list all disk info
• The printenv boot-device command shows current boot setting
• May have to use the setenv boot-device newbootdevspec command to change boot device

Prepare a list of domains to search and the IP addresses of the DNS name servers on your network. Set properties in the SMF repository with the information:

$ svccfg -s network/dns/client
svc:/network/dns/client> setprop config/search = astring: ("domain1" "domain2")
svc:/network/dns/client> setprop config/nameserver = net_address: (address1 address2)
svc:/network/dns/client> select network/dns/client:default
svc:/network/dns/client:default> refresh
svc:/network/dns/client:default> validate

Specify the name service switch to use DNS:

svc:/network/dns/client:default> select name-service/switch
svc:/system/name-service/switch> setprop config/host = astring: "files dns"
svc:/system/name-service/switch> select system/name-service/switch:default
svc:/system/name-service/switch:default> refresh
svc:/system/name-service/switch:default> validate
svc:/system/name-service/switch:default> quit

Start the services that are needed to run the DNS client:

$ svcadm enable dns/client
$ svcadm enable name-service/switch

svccfg -s system/identity:node setprop config/nodename="newhostname"
svcadm refresh system/identity:node
svcadm restart system/identity:node