SUMMARY: JumpStart Weirdness
2007-12-24 21:43:00
JumpStart requests.
Everyone who replied gave good advice and I checked out all of their
suggestions but to no avail.
This one's a weird one. Things tried included:
checking - /etc/bootparams
- /etc/ethers
- /etc/hosts
- /jumpstart/rules
clearing ARP tables
checking /etc/nodename on the machine to be upgraded
cleaning out TFTP JumpStart files
Although none of these things pointed directly to the problem, as a side
effect they caused me to boot the machine from its hard drive while
snooping its ethernet address. This showed up an interesting anomaly which
pointed to the existence of a second (obsolete) JumpStart server on the
subnet which was running bootparamd and had a TFTP area. In addition, this
other machine had an /etc/ethers file which had
newmachine.mydomain.edu.au's ethernet address listed as
webserver.mydomain.edu.au. This caused all kinds of confusion. After
removing the TFTP area (/tftpboot, for those not in the know) and
restarting the NFS server, everything seems to have come right.
Thanks to:
Randy Romero
Anton (no surname given)
Jonathan Hays
Ryan Hamilton Madison
Michael Steeves
While nobody actually hit the nail on the head (and how could anyone _know_
what was actually happening, after all), their hints gave me the ideas
required to find out what was wrong.
Thanks again,
Jonathan.
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Jonathan Elliott
Systems Administrator
Information Technology Services, University of Tasmania
Jonathan.Elliott at utas.edu.au
"Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for
the rest of the day." - source unknown.
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