topic Re: lan booting in Operating System - HP-UX

lan booting

Francois Bariselle_3 — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:22:19 GMT

I have only one Ignite server (B160L, 192.168.1.101) and a client on the same lan.

I try to booting a client (B132L Workstation) from the network but it does'nt work.

On client, I execute few time:

1) search lan
response: No devices found

2) boot lan.192.168.1.101 install

During the booting, this message appear:

Failed to initialize.
ENTRY_INIT
Status = -7

Thanks in advance.

Re: lan booting

Patrick Preuss — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:27:29 GMT

hi,

check the ip address the client becomes assigned.

best regards

patrick

Re: lan booting

Sandip Ghosh — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:31:42 GMT

Both are in the same network?

You can push the install from your server instead of pulling it from the client.

Sandip

Re: lan booting

Francois Bariselle_3 — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:37:28 GMT

How I push the install from my server instead of pulling it from my client.

Re: lan booting

Sandip Ghosh — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:49:11 GMT

From the Ignite GUI you can push the image, but provided during the push your client should be up and running. Basically what it does, It copies the wininstall file to the client and change the default boot path to that wininstall file and reboot the Client through wininstall file. Then the Server started pushing the Image.

Go to ignite GUI, select the image and do install client --> new install

Sandip

Re: lan booting

Francois Bariselle_3 — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:59:54 GMT

My client is up but is not already running HP-UX.
I press ESC on boot process on my client.
Is the new installation.

Re: lan booting

Sandip Ghosh — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:09:45 GMT

Either you can boot up the system with the nominal OS and then start doing this or
do some changes in the file /var/opt/ignite/local/config as per your requirement and try it out.

Sandip

Re: lan booting

pap — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:11:43 GMT

Hi,
You have to do following.

1. Boot the machine you want to recover.

2. At 10 sec message you have to interrupt the machine and you will get to BOOT_ADMIN prompt.

3. At that prompt you have to give command

boot lan.10.2.45.34 install
(IF IGnite server IP is 10.2.45.34)

Check the ignite servers IP again while giving above command.

$. now your machine will boot from ignite server and you will get ignite screen, select Install HP-UX from that menu.
5. Then select method of installation as remote GUI Running on Ignite-UX server.

6. Ignite then will prompt you for network informations..like IP, Subnet mask etc...

after this ignite will wait for response from Ignite server.

7. Now login to Ignite server and run ignite.
8. Select the machine to be recovered, right click on its icon and select install.

Then the machine will start recovering from ignite server.

As far as booting of your machine from ignite server is concern there should not be any problem as your ignite server is on the same network.

Check the connections.
-Pap

Re: lan booting

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:17:04 GMT

Hi,

Try the install in Capital characters,

bo lan.a.b.c.d INSTALL

a.b.c.d is the ip address of your ignite server.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: lan booting

James Brelsford — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:41:27 GMT

Hello,
From your posting, you have to make sure that both machines are on the same network. Doing a search lan from the client machine before trying an ignite is a good idea. If the client machine does not see the ignite server NOTHING you do will work (pull or push).

I had this same problem at one of our remote sites and it ended up being the machine being ignited was plugged into the wrong hub.

Re: lan booting

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:14:59 GMT

Hi

Have you assigned a temporary ip adress to the ignite server. The client must use this during the boot process. This is done from the Ignite GUI "Actions/Tutorial/server setup"

Leif

Re: lan booting

Gordon_3 — Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:02:25 GMT

HI all,

I think I have the same problem describing in this thread, my setup is for 2 servers but in different network segment. A helper system is setup on the third machine. However, not sure why, I cannot get the "BOOT MENU" by pressing 10 sec prompt, all I get is just the normal "MAIN MENU" prompt. Typing "sea lan install" with get "NO device to boot.." I sure the server and client machines are "connected" by the helper as I have done the Network Archieve recovery without any problem.. any help?

Bgds,
Gordon

Re: lan booting

K.Vijayaragavan. — Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:10:58 GMT

Does the link activity LED glow in the workstation's lan card?

If you have any additional network adapter in your workstation try connecting your workstation to the network using that.

If possible switch your workstation to some other network port.

-Vijay