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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Problems booting diskless on Ethernet
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Date: 1 Mar 91 15:59:02 GMT
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You know, your problem is beginning to look familiar ...

We have several diskless machines here at MIT which are booted off
of a variety of nodes. A little while ago, our AA machine had its
disk drive go up in smoke. Suddenly, none of the diskless machines
would boot off of their partners *except* for the machines whose
partners had a full OS load (ie. *NONE* of SR10.2 on the partner
machine was installed as a link to the AA machine). I searched and
searched for what could conceivably be the missing file and didn't
find anything ... yet, when I re-installed the OS to point to the
new AA machine, the diskless nodes could boot again.


 -- David Krowitz

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