ignite hangs during boot process

[Jo Davis]

I have a bl60p that I am trying to install a golden image on. I have 2 disks with nothing on them so they show up as physical disks but no partitions.
Device mapping table
blk0 : Acpi(HWP0002,100)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)
blk1 : Acpi(HWP0002,100)/Pci(1|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)

I setup a dbprofile and ran the following
lanboot -dn test select
I selected the appropriate lan card and selected to install an 11.31 system.
It downloads the initial install file and when it gets to the kernel boot, it hangs.

Current firmware revisions

MP FW : H.03.07
BMC FW : 73.19
EFI FW : 05.41
System FW : 01.70

Any ideas?

[Benoy Daniel]

what about the server model?.

Check the LAN speed of your Ignite server. It should match with client speed.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Always a good idea to make firmware as current as possible before starting.

From the EFI shell.

help lanboot

You probably need to do lanboot select to get the system to boot off a network card.

SEP

[Jo Davis]

It's a BL60P in a C3000 chassis.
I am using select, it downloads the initial boot software and then hangs at the boot kernel part. I have left it running for over 12 hours and it doesn't budge from this spot.
here is what I get:
Select Desired LAN: 01
Selected Acpi(HWP0002,400)/Pci(1|0)/Mac(0015600F2840)


Client MAC Address: 00 15 60 0F 28 40
Client IP Address: 142.16.5.145
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
BOOTP Server IP Address: 142.16.14.156
Gateway IP Address: 142.16.5.1
DHCP Server IP Address: 0.0.0.0
Boot file name: /opt/ignite/boot/nbp.efi

Retrieving File Size.
Retrieving File (TFTP).
@(#) HP-UX IA64 Network Bootstrap Program Revision 1.1
Downloading HPUX bootloader
Starting HPUX bootloader
Obtaining size of fpswa.efi (328192 bytes)
Downloading file fpswa.efi (328192 bytes)

(C) Copyright 1999-2009 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
All rights reserved

HP-UX Boot Loader for IPF -- Revision 2.039

Booting from Lan
Obtaining size of AUTO (224 bytes)
Downloading file AUTO (224 bytes)
Obtaining size of AUTO (224 bytes)
Downloading file AUTO (224 bytes)



Obtaining size of AUTO (224 bytes)
Downloading file AUTO (224 bytes)
1. target OS is B.11.23 IA
2. target OS is B.11.31 IA
3. Exit Boot Loader
Choose an operating system to install that your hardware supports:2

Obtaining size of AUTO (224 bytes)
Downloading file AUTO (224 bytes)
Obtaining size of Rel_B.11.31/IINSTALL (55719676 bytes)
Downloading file Rel_B.11.31/IINSTALL |
(55719676 bytes)
> System Memory = 4076 MB
loading section 0
............................................................................................................ (complete)
loading section 1
..................... (complete)
loading symbol table
Obtaining size of Rel_B.11.31/IINSTALLFS (61341696 bytes)
Downloading file Rel_B.11.31/IINSTALLFS \
Console is on Serial Device - via PCDP

booting kernel.......

Then it sits here forever

[SoorajCleris]

Hi

It seems like you have a wrong console settings!!!!

Regards,
Sooraj

[Jo Davis]

I saw postings regarding consoles and followed those processes. I don't believe that the problem is a console issue
I have 2 console definitions:
CONSOLE CONFIGURATION

Index Primary Type Device Path
----- ------- ----- ----------
1 NC Serial Acpi(PNP0501,0)
2 P Serial Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(2|1)

I disabled the first one as when I tried to boot from that console, the system hung at the
Obtaining size of Rel_B.11.31/IINSTALLFS (61341696 bytes)
Downloading file Rel_B.11.31/IINSTALLFS \

Which is what the other forums indicated was a console issue.

[SoorajCleris]

Is this a working Image ?

I mean did you ever use this Ignite server, to image any other servers?

Could you please check the log files at server.

Regards,
Sooraj

[Jo Davis]

Yes, I use this ignite server all the time to image servers. All I see on the server is the tftpd daemon running and eventually I get a timeout message in the syslog as follows:
Apr 22 16:11:44 flicker tftpd[10111]: Timeout (no requests in 10 minutes)