ehrlich@shire.cs.psu.edu (Daniel R. Ehrlich) (05/24/89)
In order to relieve some congestion problems our computer center recently split all of their Sun workstations and file severs off onto there own sub-net. All that was done was to change from sub-net 128.118.2 to subnet 128.118.58 for all of the workstations in question. The boot files were renamed with the new IP addresses in hex and all appears to work fine except for one diskless 3/60 (named bubba). Bubba now always stops at the point were one would expect it to be running rc.boot. It has printed out the kernel configuration messages and were the root, swap, and dumps go, but then it just stops. Dead as a door nail. Being adventurous we lugged the other diskless 3/60 (named buckaroo) over to the bubba's ethernet tap and plugged it in. Buckaroo will boot either as itself or masquerading as bubba (by changing /etc/ethers), so we can eliminate the ethernet from the drop cable out. We are running out of things to check. A quick scan of the eeprom contents from bubba appears to be identical with buckaroo. If any one has any idea as to what is going wrong I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks in advance. -- Dan Ehrlich <ehrlich@shire.cs.psu.edu> | Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are The Pennsylvania State University | my own, and should not be attributed Department of Computer Science | to anyone else, living or dead. University Park, PA 16802 |