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by joukj » Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:08 am
Hi All
I swapped some hardware. Now one of my Itanium machine (A RX2600) fails to boot as a sattelite. I get on the console:
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Loading.: IA64 cluster
Running LoadFile()
CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 30 6E 67 C4 6A
CLIENT IP: 131.180.25.45 MASK: 255.255.0.0 DHCP IP: 0.240.0.0
Running LoadFile()
Starting: IA64 cluster
%VMS_LOADER-E-MULTCON: CONOUT device path cannot be set to multiple devices
%VMS_LOADER-E-NOCONSEL - Select Console Device Paths from the Boot Manager Menu.
%VMS_LOADER-I-TRANSFER: Starting VSI OpenVMS...
%IPB-I-SUCCESS, VSI OpenVMS IPB version V8.4-2L3 successfully loaded.
EGA-I-BOOTDRIVER, Link up, selected 1000 mbit, full-duplex mode
Network Initial System Load Function
Version 1.2
FUNCTION FUNCTION
ID
1 - Display Menu
2 - Help
3 - Choose Service
4 - Select Options
5 - Stop
Enter a function ID value:
Looks like the intenet connection is OK: it gets the IP-adddress that is in the bootp-configuration but after that bootp is not started and I get the info-server menu.. What am I missing? How can I havthe sattelite use bootp to boot?
Jouk
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by imiller » Thu Dec 21, 2023 4:25 am
have you read the documentation?
https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-openvm ... #PART-Boot
Did the MAC address change?
Ian Miller
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by joukj » Thu Dec 21, 2023 4:44 am
Yes the MAC-adress changed. I changed the sattelites mac-adress using @cluster_config. The MAC-address listed in the the mail above is the mac-adrfess of the RX2600 and is also listed in "tcpip show bootp"
Also three sattlites whose hardware was not changed can still boot using bootp.
To be clear I got a new boot member hardware and booted from the "old" disk. Also the hardware of the RX2600 was changed , but that one now gives booting problems.
Jouk
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by joukj » Thu Jan 04, 2024 5:52 am
Got it working....
It seems that setting the boot option using the BIOS doe not work. I booted from DVD and used @BOOT_OPTIONS. This asks specifically for the satellite option.
Jouk