3/80 boot problems
Grenville Whelan - Sun UK
grenvill at trajan.uk.sun.com
Wed May 30 20:32:04 AEST 1990
In article <8223 at brazos.Rice.edu> giacobbe at pilot.njin.net (Jeff Giacobbe) writes:
>This problem just reared its ugly head and I can't figure it out (a call
>to Sun support offered some good advice, but so far no solutions)
>
>We're running a Sun 4/260 server and four 3/80 diskless workstations. All
>was well until last week. Suddenly, the 3/80's decided to hang. I tried
>to reboot them but no luck (example):
>
> Using IP address {########}
> Booting from tftp server at {########}
> Downloaded 129,368 bytes from tftp server
>
> [....TOTALLY HANGS....]
Have you changed your YP master, or modded the maps in any way? It sounds
like either YP "/etc/bootparams" file is incomplete, (ie. doesn't contain
entries for the machines failing to boot), or your export permissions are
wrong; check with "exportfs" on the YP server.
Hope this helps.
Grenville Whelan, Sun UK, Hilton House, Lord St, Stockport, Cheshire, SK1 3ND
[Tel. +44 061-477-3100, Email: gwhelan at sunuk.Sun.COM]
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