Lanboot failes on dbprofile -PXE-E16: Valid PXE offer not received

[gajula]

Shell> dbprofile start hpux bootloader
Profile List

Profile Name: testprofile
Network Type: IPv4
Server IP address: 10.247.12.42
Client IP address: 10.247.204.104
Gateway IP address: 10.247.204.254
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
Boot File: /opt/ignite/boot/nbp.efi
Optional Data:

Profile Name: PANboot
Network Type: IPv4
Server IP address: 172.26.0.139
Client IP address: 172.26.204.104
Gateway IP address: 172.26.204.0
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
Boot File: /opt/ignite/boot/nbp.efi
Optional Data:
Shell>lanboot select -dn testprofile
Select Desired LAN: 01
Selected Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(2|0)/Mac(42D27F68865D)

Running LoadFile()

CLIEN....S
PXE-E16: Valid PXE offer not received

trying the same command multiple time leads to system dump.
Shell> lanboot select -dn testprofile
01 Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(2|0)/Mac(42D27F68865D)
Select Desired LAN: 01
Selected Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(2|0)/Mac(42D27F68865D)

Running LoadFile()

CLIEN....SSN_ASSERT: Assertion failure at P:\EFI.avio\edk\drivers\ssnundi\ssn.c(1417): (AdapterInfo)->SsnInfo.CurIrdIndex != (AdapterInfo)->SsnInfo.ProdIrdIndex
ASSERT FAILED: P:\EFI.avio\corefw\fw\efi\exec\tpl.c(146): OldTpl <= NewTpl




*** A fatal error has occurred -- VM terminated ***

**** Dumping Guest Image ****

**** Done with dump (14324Kbytes) ****

Please help if there is anything wrong with my confir,

Thanks in advance !!
Regards,
Govind.

[Scot Bean]

Definitely a serious problem here between the bootloader, EFI, or VMavio. I have not seen this before.

I would check
- version of VM running
- firmware/EFI version

If you have an HP support contract, I would contact them on this. Could be a known problem.

[rick jones]

Just to be certain, is the subnet mask in testprofile supposed to be 255.255.0.0? That seems to be a rather large subnet and I was wondering if Server IP address: 10.247.12.42 is actually in the same link-level broadcast domain as Client IP address: 10.247.204.104.

Also, in the deep dark past, my dimm, bit-error prone wetware memory recalls something about EFI driver updates for the dual-port PCI-X GbE NICs and perhaps cores, so the tired old song and dance of "are you running all the latest firmware revisions for your system" might apply.

[Michael Steele_2]

http://docs.hp.com/en/6838/LANBootOverview.html#LANBootIA