Showing posts with label Dell OS10 ONIE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dell OS10 ONIE. Show all posts

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.