From: ANTHONY DELSORBO (delsorbo@ASC.HPC.MIL)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 14:44:00 EDT
Simon,
This sounds like a bootp/tftp issue. E105 is a network error indication.
Check that your tftp and bootp daemons are enabled. Also, check that the MAC
address of your node is in the /etc/bootptab. Something is amiss in that your
system doesn't know how to communicate with the node.
Tony DelSorbo
ASC MSRC, OH
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 01:03 pm, Green, Simon wrote:
> I'm planning to migrate one of my systems tomorrow afternoon and I've been
> trying to do a dummy run today to confirm it works OK and to check the
> timings. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.
>
> The source node is a 604 High node, running PSSP 3.2 and AIX 4.3.3 ML08.
> The target node is a Silver Wide node, (previously running PSSP 3.1.1 and
> AIX 433-06).
> CWS is PSSP 3.2, AIX 433-08.
> SPOT is at ML08.
>
> setup_server completed with rc=0. SDR information looks OK.
> When I run nodecond it goes pretty much as normal at first, but then it
> hangs on LED E105.
>
> I get the same result when I try a diag boot, and also when I switch back
> to the original boot image and PSSP version, (that was still with a diag).
> On one occasion, I got 4B24A110, but I haven't seen that again.
>
> Console output, (for diag) shows the following:
> BOOTP S = 1
> FILE: /tftpboot/baup139e
> Load Addr=0x4000 Max Size=0xbfc000
> FINAL Packet Count = 9140
> DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff00700 at %SRR0: 0000d1c0 %SRR1: 00083000
> ok
> 0 >
>
> nc.3.9 is...
> Nodecond Status: network boot successful
> Nodecond Status: bootp sent over ethernet
> Nodecond Status: waiting for "Please define the System Console" menu
> Nodecond Status: will wait up to 420 seconds
> timeout waiting for "Please define the System Console"
> Nodecond Status: finished
>
> Install is similar.
>
> I've had a search of the archives and came across some references to NFS
> export problems. I've been through /etc/exports and checked with lsnfsexp
> and found a couple of oddities, in that some exports were for
> "root=baup139e:,access=baup139e:", (note the extraneous colons). I
> corrected them and re-exported. I also added explicit root access for
> lppsource.
>
> I also found a reference to ethernet, so I checked: both the node's SDR
> entry and the CWS are set to half-duplex.
>
> The target node was running happily in production up until very recently.
> Last time it was rebooted was about a month ago. There have been no
> hardware errors as far as I am aware.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Simon Green
> Philip Morris ITSC Europe
>
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