Boot problem

[Russ Poffenberger]

In article <2740 at brazos.Rice.edu> IN10%UDESVM.bitnet at ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca (Denis Beauchemin) writes:
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>The problem is the following: a station starts booting up and then puts
>itself in sleep mode while downloading vmunix and returns to PROM level.
>When the error occurs, the cursor seems to be spinning at the right speed.
>If I keep asking it to boot, it will eventually do so (but it may take as
>many as 10 tries).

I have seen similar things when booting a diskless client and something
happened to seriously disturb the ethernet ( like unplugging it ). I don't
know if this is your problem exactly (maybe you have a very "noisy"
ethernet, do a netstat -i on your server and see if there are a lot of
collisions).  Also, it is known that the pre-4.0.3 version of boot.sun3
had some problems (not these specifically though that I can recall)

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