First Boot of the Lighthouse VM

Note: This section does not apply to Azure or AWS.

During boot, two screens open.

1. The first screen prompts to Select Lighthouse boot mode and displays four options:

   • Graphics console boot

   • Graphics console recovery mode

   • Serial console boot

   • Serial console recovery mode

Graphics console boot is preselected and should not be changed. After the first boot has completed a message displays:

Welcome to Lighthouse. This is software version:
2024.02.0

2. The final step in the initial setup displays:

To complete initial setup, please set a new root password.
Press ENTER to continue.

3. After pressing Enter, a prompt displays:

   Enter new root password:

4. Enter a password and press Enter. Keep in mind that non-US-English keyboards are not supported in the graphics console.

Note: It is recommended that you set a temporary password at this point and change it to a very strong high-entropy password as soon as possible using the WebUI.

5. The confirm prompt displays:

   Confirm given password

6. Re-enter the password and press Enter. Multiple configuration notices appear ending with a login prompt:

   lighthouse login:

7. Enter root and press Enter. A password prompt displays:

   Password:

8. Enter the newly-set password and press Enter. A standard bash shell prompt displays with the list of static, DHCP, and IPv6 addresses.

net1 192.168.0.1/24
net1:dhcp 192.168.1.186/24
net1 fe80::a00:27ff:fe39:daa3/64
root@lighthouse:~#