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Conference 7.286::fddi

Title:FDDI - The Next Generation
Moderator:NETCAD::STEFANI
Created:Thu Apr 27 1989
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2259
Total number of notes:8590

2244.0. "Booting over defpa, 6.2-1h1 for AXP" by KERNEL::FREKES (Like a thief in the night) Wed Mar 26 1997 10:21

    Folks
    
    Having problems booting over an FDDI controller. DEFPA, SAS UTP
    varient. Alphastation 2100 running OVMS 6.2-1h1. The node is getting so
    far through the boot process then is just repeating the following line
    up the screen.
    
    vmscluster-i-reinit_wait Waiting for access to the system disk server
    
    Any ideas appreciatted.
    
    Steven F
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2244.1STAR::STOCKDALEWed Mar 26 1997 16:2410
What type of system is being booted (into the 2100?).  I gather the
DEFPA is the device on the 2100 over which the boot is being done?

Note that V6.2-1H1 doesn't have DEFPA boot support for Rawhide or
the Pinnacle/Noritake systems (that support is in V6.2-1H3).  Since
the console is able to obtain APB.EXE via MOP, it appears the boot
is failing as soon as APB.EXE tries to use the LAN boot driver for
the DEFPA in APB.

- Dick
2244.2problem resolved.42326::FREKESLike a thief in the nightTue Apr 08 1997 05:4910
    Dick
    
    Sorry about the delay in getting back to you. DNS problems prevented me
    from being able to get in here. The problem was with the 2100 itself.
    It appears that there were issues with this nodes route to the disk. 
    There appears to have been some shadowing issues as well. Thanks for
    your input.
    
    Regards
    	Steven