Re: [cobalt-users] Raq3i OS-Restore Pause...

[Bruce Timberlake <Bruce.Timberlake@xxxxxxx>]

> I downloaded a restore iso for the Raq3/Raq3i today from the sun/cobalt site, burned it, and tried
> it on my machine, but the restore process doesn't seem to be working.  The cd boots in my
> workstation machine alright, likes the NIC card, and is all ready to work.
> 
> The problem comes when I fire up the blue-box and select "Boot from net".  At first all seems to
> be good and it seems to be accessing some info off the CD-drive in my workstation, but then after
> a while it starts to shut down some services and say it's going to reboot (on the LCD).  When it
> does reboot, it says "Loading Kernel" on the LCD panel, but this lasts for seemingingly forever...
> I keep loosing the patience to see if it's going to come out of this phase, as it seems like no
> network traffic or hard-drive activity is occuring.
> 
> How long should this pause normally occur once it reboots the first time...?  Should this take
> more than an hour?   Any diagnostics I can run to see what's occuring and if there's a halt going
> on?

There shouldn't be much of a pause. You most likely have one or more of
the following problems:

- incompatible NIC in the workstation
- more than one NIC in the workstation
- more than one CDROM in the workstation

Before the RaQ reboots itself, you should see the following steps happen
in the LCD:

- hard drive partitioning/formatting
- RPM install (takes the longest)

For diagnostics you can connect a second machine to the serial port of
your RaQ with a null modem cable, run a terminal emulator, and watch the
messages scroll by. That will tell you exactly where it's hanging.

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Bruce Timberlake
Linux/Cobalt Technology Engineer
Communications Market Area
Sun Microsystems - San Diego, CA

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