SUMMARY Sun V210 and V240 resets spontaneously within jumpstart postinstall script

Hi,

after further troubleshooting I found out that luckily the
hardware is not the culprit !!! There simply was no fault ;-)

Well .. the machines are so blindingly fast, that they
reached my last postinstall script with an "init 6"
statement, that the serial interface was not quick enough
to empty all of its buffer contents with 9600 Baud ;-)

And I misinterpreted the usual LOM message informing you,
that a reset occurred ... I thought the machine had severe
problem, instead of this it was simply the result of the "init 6".

But it was really irritating, since it didn't seem to be too
much output for 9600 Baud at the first look.

I added now a sleep 5 after every of the 26 postinstall
scripts and a sleep 30 before performing the "init 6".

Well thats certainly more than enough (overkill), but
I wanted to be sure to not miss anything.

No reply could solve my problem, but an interesting
answer came from Harold Reinstein, who really had such
a jumpstart problem with a certain Solaris/Hardware
combination, therefore I want to mention it:

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From: "HAROLD REINSTEIN, BLOOMBERG/ 700 COLLE" <HREINSTEIN@bloomberg.net>

I think we had a similar issue with V480.
We had to use solaris 8 2/02 to jumpstart it.

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On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:42:04PM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> Sun V240 and V210 simply seem to reset spontaneously during jumpstart
> according to my logfile.
> 
> A friend of mine told me, that he made in the past similar experience
> with other SUN hardware platforms. JS server runs, but not with some
> kind of machine, i.e. SS5.
> 
> In my case the JS server runs fine with a sun clone (e450 clone),
> a netra, and a 220R, only BIG difference is, that I used Solaris 8 7/02
> for the old hardware platforms.
> 
> With the new machines V210 and V240 I needed Solaris 8 12/02 because
> of the needed hardware support.
> 
> Maybe there is a bug in Solaris 12/02 ?
> 
> Tomorrow I will have time to install the older machines with the
> new Solaris, to test, if its simply a jumpstart bug in Solaris 8 12/02.
> 
> I'd like to hear your experiences, if you had similar results with
> the new machines.
> 
> How my jumpstart scripts look like ? See here:
> 
> I have one master postinstall script:
> 	/export/jumpstart/POSTINSTALL/postinstall_didata
> 
> Within this script I execute about 26 shell scripts
> Roughly this form:
> 
> 	#! /bin/sh
> 	# suck in global config
> 	. $SI_CONFIG_DIR/config.sh
> 	# suck in machine specific config
> 	. $SI_CONFIG_DIR/SYSIDCFG/`hostname`/config.sh
> 	/bin/sh $SI_CONFIG_DIR/POSTINSTALL/01-set_root_password
> 	/bin/sh $SI_CONFIG_DIR/POSTINSTALL/02-create_toor_account
> 	[...]
> 	/bin/sh $SI_CONFIG_DIR/POSTINSTALL/27-foo_bar
> 	/bin/sh $SI_CONFIG_DIR/POSTINSTALL/99-copy_reboot_stage1_to_jsclient
> 
> I started 3 jumpstart runs in parallel
> e450	booting with Solaris 8 07/02
> v210	booting with Solaris 8 12/02
> v240	booting with Solaris 8 12/02
> 
> All machines use the same postinstall scripts.
> 
> e450 runs fine, no problems.
> v210 resets after postinstall script 09
> v240 resets after postinstall script 14
> 
> So it doesn't seem to be a script problem.
> It more seems for me to be a "random" problem.
> Additionally the same machine doesn't reset at the same
> script like before ...
> 
> Hardware failure ???
> 
> But AFTER installation during normal runtime the machine is
> stable ... strange ... isn't it ???
> 
> Thanks for any pointer !
> 
> 	Andreas ///
> 
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