[cobalt-users] Raq3i OS-Restore Pause-Out saga continues...

[Spacey <space_biscuit@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey folks,

I tried a few new things tonight trying to resolve why my os-restore process
stalls out.  It was suggested that I try two regular networking cables and a port-hub
instead of my cross-over/patch cable, and I tried that to end at the same results.  I also 
tried the process with my NIC card in a totallly different machine to end at the same results.

It gets to a point on the LCD panel where it says :

RMP Installs
6/261 (0%)

or something to that effect.  

On the serial-port terminal emulator, the blue-box says it's trying NFS server test and failing:

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

So.. I really think that my cabling can be eliminated as a problem, and I really feel pretty solid

about the NIC card...

One discovery that I >did< manage to make today was that I flipped back (on my data switch), to
the screen of the "DHCP OS-Restore Server" that the blue-box was trying to NFS with, and after
that last screen of the boot up process there, it starts outputting the following:

hdc: lost interrupt
hdc: lost interrupt
hdc: lost interrupt
hdc: lost interrupt
hdc: lost interrupt
hdc: lost interrupt

... ad-infinitum.... probably in accordance with the flash of the Tx/Rx light on the blue box as
it tries to connect out.

So... what gives here?  Anybody run into this problem ever?  Any more suggestions now?  I hope
there's an answer out there....!?

Thanks All,

Theo




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