Sun V210 and V240 resets spontaneously within jumpstart postinstall script

From: Andreas Klemm (andreas_at_apsfilter.org)
Date: 06/25/03

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    Sun V240 and V210 simply seem to reset spontaneously during jumpstart
    according to my logfile.

    A friend of mine told me, that he made in the past similar experience
    with other SUN hardware platforms. JS server runs, but not with some
    kind of machine, i.e. SS5.

    In my case the JS server runs fine with a sun clone (e450 clone),
    a netra, and a 220R, only BIG difference is, that I used Solaris 8 7/02
    for the old hardware platforms.

    With the new machines V210 and V240 I needed Solaris 8 12/02 because
    of the needed hardware support.

    Maybe there is a bug in Solaris 12/02 ?

    Tomorrow I will have time to install the older machines with the
    new Solaris, to test, if its simply a jumpstart bug in Solaris 8 12/02.

    I'd like to hear your experiences, if you had similar results with
    the new machines.

    How my jumpstart scripts look like ? See here:

    I have one master postinstall script:
            /export/jumpstart/POSTINSTALL/postinstall_didata

    Within this script I execute about 26 shell scripts
    Roughly this form:

            #! /bin/sh
            # suck in global config
            . $SI_CONFIG_DIR/config.sh
            # suck in machine specific config
            . $SI_CONFIG_DIR/SYSIDCFG/`hostname`/config.sh
            /bin/sh $SI_CONFIG_DIR/POSTINSTALL/01-set_root_password
            /bin/sh $SI_CONFIG_DIR/POSTINSTALL/02-create_toor_account
            [...]
            /bin/sh $SI_CONFIG_DIR/POSTINSTALL/27-foo_bar
            /bin/sh $SI_CONFIG_DIR/POSTINSTALL/99-copy_reboot_stage1_to_jsclient

    I started 3 jumpstart runs in parallel
    e450 booting with Solaris 8 07/02
    v210 booting with Solaris 8 12/02
    v240 booting with Solaris 8 12/02

    All machines use the same postinstall scripts.

    e450 runs fine, no problems.
    v210 resets after postinstall script 09
    v240 resets after postinstall script 14

    So it doesn't seem to be a script problem.
    It more seems for me to be a "random" problem.
    Additionally the same machine doesn't reset at the same
    script like before ...

    Hardware failure ???

    But AFTER installation during normal runtime the machine is
    stable ... strange ... isn't it ???

    Thanks for any pointer !

            Andreas ///

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