[geeks] FIXED: V490 falling into interactive mode on jumpstart

[Nadine Miller]

On Nov 14, 2008, at 8:07 AM, Nadine Miller wrote:

>
> On Nov 14, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Jonathan Katz wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Nadine Miller <velociraptor at gmail.com 
>> >wrote:
>>> I don't think that's the issue, because it fails right to the  
>>> "help" you
>>> get at the beginning of the automated install (e.g. "F2" vs  
>>> "ESC_2", etc) as
>>> soon as it gets booted, iirc, never getting to the "Starting Java"  
>>> line.
>>>
>> Yeah, check the hard drive sizes. Also, it could be that for  
>> whatever reason
>> on the "oddball" V490 that the hard drive is coming up on a different
>> controller (c1 vs c0, or something) and that could fubar your  
>> jumpstart. I
>> had that happen on identical V240s with Solaris 9 and could never  
>> figure out
>> why. The "rootdisk.s1" stuff in the profile didn't fix it, either,  
>> I had to
>> be explicit in the profile for some reason. My memory is hazy.

Sending this out to get it into the archvies.

It turns out that this was a problem with the sysidcfg, but only with  
this particular machine.

All the other boxes accepted "network_interface=PRIMARY", even with  
other NICs connected to various networks, and still managed to get the  
right one attached to the jumpstart box's network.

This one V490 would not jump until I disconnected all other networks  
and changed to an explicit interface in the sysidcfg (the former may  
have been unnecessary, but I did it before I did the sysidcfg config  
changes and didn't replug them until after I got the jumpstart started).

Not sure why, but there you go.

Anyway, another upshot of the problem is that the ce's are not  
labelled as I would expect them to be.  The onboard interface, for  
example, is ce4 (so there was a lot of trial and error until I got the  
clue to look at the other V490's configured interfaces).  This  
interface is marked as 0 on the chassis.

Any ideas how to figure out which is which short of doing a plumb on  
every potential integer?

The T5120's are sane--they are labelled on the chassis and the  
expansion board (though the latter is barely readable).

=Nadine=