Solaris 9 jumpstart problems

From: Adam Kirby (a.kirby@eim.surrey.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 12:59:14 EDT


Managers,

I have a E420R running Solaris 7, setup as a jumpstart server for Solaris
7, 8 and 9. It has been working fine for months but recently I started
having problems....

I'm trying to install a V880 with Solaris 9 - I have installed this
machine before with the same jumpstart server.

When I started this morning I kept getting the infamous 'Timeout waiting
for ARP/RARP packet' despite the fact the mac address is correctly
registered in NIS. I added the mac address to the local ethers file and
the V880 sucessfully completed its tftp download.

I changed the hostname of the V880 and tried again via NIS lookups and it
worked. I've restarted nscd etc...

Anyway the V880 completes it's tftp download, sits there for a while and
then complains that it cannot open it's kernel.

I've run in.rapd and rpc.bootparamd in debug mode and everything looks
correct. I've checked all the obvious things, re-installed the Solaris 9
image etc... but am at a loss.

/etc/bootparams looks fine, jumpstart stuff and solaris image is shared
correctly, tftp is enabled.... I've even rebooted the jump server.

I wouldn't mind but this was working last week :(

Anyone any ideas ??

Cheers, Adam
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