Network Boot - IBM BladeCenter QS20 Problem Determination And Service Manual

Network boot

The following table describes the network boot errors.
Table 6. Network boot errors
Message: "E3000: Could not read MAC address".
Reason The firmware cannot establish a communication socket for booting over
network. This is due to an error that occurred when it tried to retrieve the
MAC address of the network device.
Action If the problem persists after power cycling the blade, contact IBM support.
Message: "E3001: Could not get ip address"
Reason The BOOTP server is not responding. Another possible reason could be a
MAC address conflict in your network.
Action Check that your BOOTP server is available and IP addresses are correctly
assigned. Also check that your MAC address is valid and is unique across
your network.
Message: "E3002: ARP request to TFTP server (xx.xx.xx.xx) failed aborting"
Reason After having received an IP address from the BOOTP server the Blade
tries to resolve the IP address of the TFTP server using ARP. The Blade
tries this for 30 seconds and aborts with this error message if it fails.
Action Make sure that the TFTP server is on the same subnet with no router in
between and that the TFTP server is reachable from the Blade.
Message: "E3003: TFTP: Could not load file <filename>"
Reason The blade failed to load a file via tftp. The reason for the error is always
printed out before this error message. Following error conditions could
occur:
v ERROR: file not found
v ERROR: access violation
v ERROR: illegal TFTP operation
v ERROR: unknown transfer ID
v ERROR: no such user
v ERROR: unknown error
Note: These errors are the default errors defined by the TFTP protocol in
RFC 1350.
Action To resolve these errors make sure the Blade is able to make a TFTP
connection to the server, that the file exists and has the correct access
rights.
Message: "E3004: TFTP: Buffer to small for <filename>"
Reason The file which the blade is trying to download is larger than the maximum
supported file size in the Firmware for downloads.
Action Use a file smaller than 16MB.
Message: "E0005: ICMP ERROR: Destination unreachable"
Reason The TFTP server cannot be reached.
Action Check that your TFTP server is available and set up correctly.
Message: "E0005: ICMP ERROR: Destination unreachable"
Reason The TFTP server cannot be reached.
Action Check that your TFTP server is available and set up correctly.
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