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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Spacey wrote:
> 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?

It should not stay at loading kernel foe more than a few moments.
It sounds like it losing the network connection.
Are you using it through a hub or switch?
 Try cross over cable, or diff hub or switch.
 I find a dumb 10/100MB hub works better than a switch YMMV

You may either have a hard disk or RAM problems.
If you can swap them out and try again

Gerald
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