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

[Bruce Timberlake <Bruce.Timberlake@xxxxxxx>]

> Ugh!... Finally got the ide/hard-drive problem figured out

What was the problem?  (for the archives...)

> and then I tried another Restore-CD round.  This time it begins
> to format the hard-drive and copy over the RPMs... but then it
> halts at 6/266 (says such on the LCD-screen) or so of the RPMs
> when it tests the NFS Server.... This is the message I get off
> the serial port connection at this halting stage:
> 
>    nfs: server 10.0.0.254 not responding, still trying
>    nfs: server 10.0.0.254 not responding, still trying
>    nfs: server tester not responding, still trying
> 
> The Tx/Rx light kept blinking on the front of the machine,

That's the RaQ trying to re-establish comms with the OSRCD...
 
> but nothing was happening for quite a while.

Somehow you're losing connectivity between the RaQ and your OSRestore
workstation.  Are you directly connecting via a crossover Ethernet
cable?  Or directly connecting with 2 regular cables and a hub/switch?

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Bruce Timberlake
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Communications Market Area
Sun Microsystems - San Diego, CA

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