Summary: Boot server link down on 2.6

2007-12-24 21:24:00

Thanks to the following:

Nigel R Owen
Darren Dunham
Fortunato Ugo Sion

Ugo Sion hits it with going to sunsolve.sun.com and looking for the
following document ID 20576 entitled "Installing Solaris 2.5.1 11/97 or
Solaris 2.6 HW 5/98 on selected hardware fails with hme0:link down or
keyboard input repeats."

bye,
Dan

>From: "Dan Lee" <koinonia98 at hotmail.com>
>To: codeprof at codeprof.com
>Subject: Boot server link down on 2.6
>Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:22:45 -0500
>
>Folks,
>
>I have a boot server running Solaris 8 on a Sparc 5. I have multiple
>versions of jumpstart OS (2.6, 7 and 8). I can jumpstart any machine with
>Solaris 7 or Solaris 8 perfectly fine. However, I keep getting problem
>on
>Solaris 2.6 on the boot server.
>
>SunOS Release...
>Copyright (c) ...
>SUNW, hme0: Link Down - cable problems
>SUNW, hme0: Link Down - cable problems
>SUNW, hme0: Link Down - cable problems
>
>This link down message just keep on repeating. There is no network or
>hardware problem with the boot server since I am able to jumpstart with
>Solaris 7 or 8 perfecly fine. FYI, on the install server, I can jumpstart
>any machine with 2.6 perfectly fine not on the boot server. Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Dan

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