From: Alexander Harvey (alexh19740110@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 01:19:39 EST
All,
Apologies, that previous post will cause some confusion unless I mention
that 'boot cdrom -s new' is only used because we're using a custom-made
CDROM rather than the network in this example. Sorry, didn't see this.
Nevertheless, it's the WARNING & NOTICE messages we're concerned about, and
they are stopping the system from booting from the Jumpstart server. We can
reproduce these messages by building the system from the CDROMs & then
running:
bash-2.05# dmesg |grep -i ce0:
Feb 27 17:53:41 nus667 genunix: [ID 408789 kern.warning] WARNING: ce0: fault
detected external to device; service degraded
Feb 27 17:53:41 nus667 genunix: [ID 451854 kern.warning] WARNING: ce0: xcvr
addr:0x01 - link down
Mar 1 09:41:52 nus667 genunix: [ID 408789 kern.notice] NOTICE: ce0: fault
cleared external to device; service available
Mar 1 09:41:52 nus667 genunix: [ID 451854 kern.notice] NOTICE: ce0: xcvr
addr:0x01 - link up 1000 Mbps full duplex
Mar 1 09:41:52 nus667 genunix: [ID 408789 kern.warning] WARNING: ce0: fault
detected external to device; service degraded
Mar 1 09:41:52 nus667 genunix: [ID 451854 kern.warning] WARNING: ce0: xcvr
addr:0x01 - link down
Mar 1 09:42:00 nus667 genunix: [ID 408789 kern.notice] NOTICE: ce0: fault
cleared external to device; service available
Mar 1 09:42:00 nus667 genunix: [ID 451854 kern.notice] NOTICE: ce0: xcvr
addr:0x01 - link up 1000 Mbps full duplex
Mar 1 10:21:23 nus667 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: ce0: no fault
external to device; service available
Mar 1 10:21:23 nus667 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: ce0: xcvr
addr:0x01 - link up 1000 Mbps full duplex
Mar 1 14:01:05 nus667 genunix: [ID 408789 kern.warning] WARNING: ce0: fault
detected external to device; service degraded
Mar 1 14:01:05 nus667 genunix: [ID 451854 kern.warning] WARNING: ce0: xcvr
addr:0x01 - link down
Although these are only WARNINGs & NOTICEs, they are stopping the systems
from booting from the network.
Hope this clarifies things.
Regards,
Alex
On 01/03/07, Alexander Harvey <alexh19740110@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> We've had a working solution for Jumpstarting Solaris 8 & 9 servers for a
> while now using ce cards & Solaris 8 & 9 flash archives. Recently, our
> procedure has stopped working & it appears that the system is no longer able
> to boot from the network using ce0:
>
> Rebooting with command: boot cdrom -s new
> Boot device: /pci@1e, 600000/ide@d/cdrom@0,0:f File and args: -s new
> SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-29 64-bit
> Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> Hardware watchdog enabled
> Configuring /dev and /devices
> WARNING: pcisch1: ino 0x2 has been blocked
> WARNING: ce1:interrupt #2 has been blocked
> WARNING: ce2:interrupt #1 has been blocked
> WARNING: pcisch1: ib_ino_add_intr: ino 0x2 has been unblocked
> WARNING: pcisch1: ino 0x3 has been blocked
> WARNING: ce1:interrupt #3 has been blocked
> WARNING: ce2:interrupt #2 has been blocked
> WARNING: ce3:interrupt #1 has been blocked
> WARNING: pcisch1: ib_ino_add_intr: ino 0x3 has been unblocked
> WARNING: ce3: fault detected external to device; service degraded
> WARNING: ce3: xcvr addr:0x01 - link down
> WARNING: ce4: fault detected external to device; service degraded
> WARNING: ce4: xcvr addr:0x01 - link down
> NOTICE: ce3: fault cleared external to device; service available
> NOTICE: ce3: xcvr addr:0x01 - link up 1000 Mbps full duplex
> NOTICE: ce4: fault cleared external to device; service available
> NOTICE: ce4: xcvr addr:0x01 - link up 1000 Mbps full duplex
> I give up - I can't find an IP address - please enter one: 10.0.0.10
> and the interface name: ce0
> and the netmask: 255.255.255.0
> I need the address of the nearest router: 10.0.0.1
> add net default: gateway 10.0.0.1
> I cannot contact the server - please fix the problem!
>
> In this example, a physical cable attached to correct VLAN was connected
> to the onboard NIC 0 on a SunFire V440.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone else know how to resolve it?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Alex Harvey
> UNIX Administrator
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