Originally posted by: vashi

We are trying build a server with NIM using mksysb.The mksysb is from 5.3 TL4 and created from the same hardware type. But after it gets the tftp boot file it hangs at code 0608. I had installed similar 2 hardware using 5.3 TL4 mksysb which was from P570 and it worked without any problems. But when trying to do mksysb install no the same kind of hardware we are having problem.

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Originally posted by: steevojb

Hi,

What level of AIX is your spot resource at ? It needs to match or be higher (if higher your restored server will inherit that maintenence level)

You can create a spot from your mksysb image and use that to boot from

/usr/sbin/nim -o define -t spot \
-a server=master \
-a location="$SPOT_DIR" \
-a source="$client"_image \
$SPOT >> $log 2>&1

HTH

Steve
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Originally posted by: vashi

We created a spot out of the mksysb from similar hardware. Also tried patching the lpp source and then creating SPOT out of it and using the mksysb from similar hardware, but did not help
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Originally posted by: steevojb

Hi,

Does the 52A reside on the same ?

error 608

Attempting to retrieve the client.info file with tftp.

Note: Note that a flashing 608 indicates multiple attempt(s) to retrieve the client_info file are occurring.

What devices do you have between the nim server and client ?
What is in /etc/bootptab during the install process ?

HTH

Steve


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Originally posted by: vashi

Does the 52A reside on the same ?

ANS: reside on the same what ?

What devices do you have between the nim server and client ?

ANS : Not sure what was the question ?. One thing different is 52A hardware had 10Gig ethernet and we are using that as the interface to do install.

What is in /etc/bootptab during the install process ?

ANS : removing the actual info ...and replacing it

<client name>.<domain>:bf=/tftpboot/clientname.domain.com:ip=<client ip address>:ht=ethernet:sa=<nim server ip> :gw=<client gateway address >:sm=255.255.255.0:

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Originally posted by: steevojb

hi,

is that a 10gig card or etherchannel ?

steve
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Originally posted by: vashi

Its a 10Gig Ethernet and not Ether Channel

lscfg -vl ent0
ent0 U787F.001.DPM173D-P1-C4-T1 10 Gigabit Ethernet-SR PCI-X 2.0 DDR Adapter (1410eb02)

10 Gigabit-SR Ethernet PCI-X Adapter:
Part Number................. 10N8264
FRU Number.................. 03N4590
EC Level....................H13634
Manufacture ID..............1312
Network Address.............0011257B0CAF
ROM Level (alterable).......KN0130
Product Specific.(Z0).......YL1020636031
Device Specific.(YL)........U787F.001.DPM173D-P1-C4-T1
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Originally posted by: steevojb

What have you got your switchport and adapter speed settings set to ? if auto neg, try setting them to the highest static value supported by both devices and set spanning-tree portfast on the switch port

have a good weekend

steve
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Originally posted by: iulianr

Hi,

The client and the server are in the same network ? Are you using the NIM routing capability ? lsnim -lc networks and check the "routing" parameter. If it doesn't help you can start an iptrace on the NIM server, restart the nim install and stop the trace when the install hangs and afterwards check the trace file.
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Originally posted by: andycor

I had the same troubles some months ago, getting exactly the led 0608. We solved it removing from the NFS exports table the /export file system where we have the spot, lppsource and NIM related resources.
NIM tries to export the spot file system and if you have already exported the spot file system, the boot process will hang.
Unexport all the filesystems and remove the entries from /etc/exports and try again.
Hope this helps.

Regards,
Andres Cordoba.
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