ITEM: BV9159L

Hanging on led 609 when doing a network boot

Env:
  AIX 4.1.5
  RISC 43p-140 and 43p-240
  sysback 3.3.3.11

Customer Rep:  Steyr-Motoren

Problem:
  When the customer does a network boot from one of
  the 43p on another 43p it will hang on led 609

Action Taken:
  The led 609 is a failure to tftp the file:
 /tftpboot/\.sbinfo  from the server system to the
 client system.

1.  I had the customer check to make sure the file
    was there and had the correct permissions.
    It had rwx-rwx-r-x  root system 
      This looked correct

2.  Do this on the server system:
    smitty sb_cfgbootclient
      readd your client, make sure all the values are 
      correct.

   smitty sb_cfgnetboot
     rebuild the boot images

3.  Make sure you are not using leading zeros when filling
    out the client, server and gateway ipaddresses in the
    sms menus on the client.
  
    Example in the clients sms menu where you fill in the
    ipaddress for the client, server and gateway, if you 
    have a IPADDRESS like this  9.19.129.186 it will 
    cause problems if you do this:  009.019.129.186  the 
    first bootp and tftp will work, but the other tftp 
    will fail.  In our case with a led 609

That is what the problem was, once the customer did
not use leading zeros it got us past hanging on led 609

Action Plan:
  Closing with customer approval



Support Line: Hanging on led 609 when doing a network boot ITEM: BV9159L

Dated: March 1997 Category: N/A

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