Thursday, October 27, 2022

Recovering Dell OS10 switch from boot to ONIE

 Issue - received two Dell switches that booted into ONIE install O/S mode.

Interrupting the ONIE boot menu by pressing x, then exit, enabled it to boot into OS10 that time, confirming OS10 and most importantly the license was intact.  I then SCPed the license file off to somewhere safe - I didn't / don't have access to the customers Dell Digital Locker, so I had no way to recover it.

Reboot and let it boot into ONIE O/S install mode again, install OS10 - in my case this rebuild both OS10 partitions but did leave the license intact, but if I didn't back that up first I would have been distressed to see it repartition and format the flash...

Confirmed it now boots directly into OS10.

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