Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!bbn!mit-eddie!rich
From: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Diskless node booting problems
Keywords: Diskless, Boot, Partner
Message-ID: <9622@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 1 Jul 88 17:19:45 GMT
Organization: MIT EE/CS Computer Facility, Cambridge, MA
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     We recently encountered problems booting one of our diskless
     nodes.  It seemed that the node couldn't find its partner.  We
checked all the relavant files and made sure netman was alive on the
partner.  All seemed in order to us, but the diskless node just
refused to cooperate with us.

     Finaly, we decided to boot it explicitly from another disked node
     (one other than its original partner).  This seemed to work.  We
then tried booting explicitly from its original partner.  Again, this
worked fine.  So, the question remains: why can't this poor diskless
node get help from its partner? Is the partner not responding to the
nodes plea for help, or is the node not asking for help?  Does anyone
out there have any ideas ...  Please e-mail your responses to me and
I'll post the results.


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