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# 1  
Old 11-06-2009
Jet/Jumpstart installation freezing
Hi guys, I have a problem with installing new Solaris servers via jet/jumpstart (tried both).

I`ve configured server, created profile for a client, issued

Code:
{1} boot net -v install

and went to get some cofee...

After I came back, client was able to load system from server, get IP and, stucked at

Code:
Attempting to configure interface bge0...
Configured interface bge0
/

and that`s it - no more life signals from it...

in snoop output on server for client i`m seening this:

Code:
  chiscadm03 -> chiscvaptest05 TCP D=518 S=2049 Fin Ack=3803501 Seq=1915110994 Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 2001773014 91537>
  chiscadm03 -> chiscvaptest05 TCP D=518 S=2049 Fin Ack=3803501 Seq=1915110994 Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 2001773054 91537>
  chiscadm03 -> chiscvaptest05 TCP D=518 S=2049 Fin Ack=3803501 Seq=1915110994 Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 2001773134 91537>
  chiscadm03 -> chiscvaptest05 TCP D=518 S=2049 Fin Ack=3803501 Seq=1915110994 Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 2001773295 91537>
  chiscadm03 -> chiscvaptest05 TCP D=518 S=2049 Fin Ack=3803501 Seq=1915110994 Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 2001773617 91537>
  chiscadm03 -> chiscvaptest05 TCP D=518 S=2049 Fin Ack=3803501 Seq=1915110994 Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 2001774261 91537>

Don`t know what`s this, but before this TFTP packets were running between them just fine - well miniroot was loaded afterall...

Any suggestions?..

Thanks!
# 2  
Old 11-08-2009
The spinning batton is either the tftp download of the tftp boot file from /tftpboot (assuming default directory) or else if the JumpStart server is a reasonably up to date Solaris 10 then it is downloading the sparc.miniroot and expanding it into memory, it is big and can take quite a while to download and expand into memory. How much memory does your client have installed?
Don't know what TCP/IP port 518 denotes?
# 3  
Old 11-09-2009
Thanks for reply. Client is V240 with 2gb of ram installed.

Issue is, that it just freezes after configuration of NIC.

Snooping for traffic revealed this

Code:
chiscvaptest05 -> 10.255.255.255 BPARAM C GETFILE root
  chiscadm03 -> chiscvaptest05 BPARAM R GETFILE File=/apps/jet/media/sol10u8_sparc/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot
chiscvaptest05 -> (broadcast)  ARP C Who is 10.20.11.110, chiscvaptest05 ?
chiscvaptest05 -> (broadcast)  ARP C Who is 10.20.11.110, chiscvaptest05 ?
chiscvaptest05 -> (broadcast)  ARP C Who is 10.20.11.110, chiscvaptest05 ?
chiscvaptest05 -> 10.255.255.255 BPARAM C GETFILE install
  chiscadm03 -> chiscvaptest05 BPARAM R GETFILE File=/apps/jet/media/sol10u8_sparc
chiscvaptest05 -> (broadcast)  ARP C Who is 10.20.11.110, chiscvaptest05 ?
chiscvaptest05 -> (broadcast)  ARP C Who is 10.20.11.110, chiscvaptest05 ?
chiscvaptest05 -> chiscadm03   ARP R 10.20.11.110, chiscvaptest05 is 0:14:4f:75:9:6c
  chiscadm03 -> chiscvaptest05 TCP D=518 S=2049 Fin Ack=3712627 Seq=3551292206 Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 2026324539 90515>
chiscvaptest05 -> chiscadm03   ARP R 10.20.11.110, chiscvaptest05 is 0:14:4f:75:9:6c
  chiscadm03 -> chiscvaptest05 TCP D=518 S=2049 Fin Ack=3712627 Seq=3551292206 Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 2026324579 90515>
  chiscadm03 -> chiscvaptest05 TCP D=518 S=2049 Fin Ack=3712627 Seq=3551292206 Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 2026324659 90515>
  chiscadm03 -> chiscvaptest05 TCP D=518 S=2049 Fin Ack=3712627 Seq=3551292206 Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 2026324820 90515>

And this is the end, nothing else..packets keep appear in snoop output - but once in min or smth...
# 4  
Old 11-09-2009
2GBytes of memory is ample.

What does the contents of rules file and the sysidcfg file being used on the JumpStart server look like?
# 5  
Old 11-18-2009
Thank you all for replies.

Issue was in the fact, that I was in class A subnet (10.255.255.255) with class C subnet mask (10.11.20.255), and that drove jumpstart insane.

Issue was fixed by editing the install-solaris file, and forcefully binding 10.11.20.255 to NIC`s, after that everything became normal, as it should be.

Regards, Nik
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