topic Re: Ignite Boot Error in Operating System - HP-UX

Ignite Boot Error

SDS FDX — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:15:08 GMT

When attempting to boot two of my RP7420 servers from my ignite boot server using the command "boot lan install", I"m receiving the following message:

Failed I/O operation with
ENTRY_IO
Status = -3

The weird thing is that I was able to successfully boot four other RP7420 servers. What could be wrong?

Re: Ignite Boot Error

DCE — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:56:44 GMT

Are you using the core lan interface on the server?

Ignite does not work well if you use an add on interface card.........

Re: Ignite Boot Error

SDS FDX — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:12:03 GMT

Yes, I have my primary data connection in the on board port (lan0). I think ignite uses this port by default. Another interesting thing that I found was that i'm receiving tftp time out errors in the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file on the boot server.

Re: Ignite Boot Error

SDS FDX — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:19:53 GMT

I found my problem. Another HPUX server on the same subnet is answering the instl_boot call, and the server isn't configured properly as a boot helper server.

Re: Ignite Boot Error

Prashanth.D.S — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:52:53 GMT

Hi SDS,

I recollect an similar issue where in a tftp user which had a uid of 828 and a
gid of -2 (which was the guest group in that case) being resolved after changing the gid to something other than -2 example 10,20 and then doing the network boot

Best Regards,
Prashanth