Re: F5 D39 / BIGIP 1000 hardware fault

Thanks to all that replied, in the end it was the CF card that was
loose. Unbeknown to me there is a small "service hatch" on the base of
the D39 and there was the CF card partly out. Popped it back in and
booted 1st time - happy again!!


Julian.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
>Of Tony Bourke
>Sent: 18 June 2009 18:29
>To: Load Balancing Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [load balancing] F5 D39 / BIGIP 1000 hardware fault
>
>I second that.  A very wise man once told me that typically three
things
>go wrong with computers:
>
>Something isn't touching that's supposed to be touching
>Something is touching that isn't supposed to be touching
>Something got too hot.
>
>It definitely sounds like a storage issue (i.e. cable).  If it's not
the
>cabling, it sounds like a CF/storage issue.
>
>Tony
>
>Barrett, John wrote:
>> Since it's out of warranty, I'd do two things. 1st open it up and
>check
>> to see if you have any loose cables. 2nd try swapping out the Compact
>> Flash card with another one. If you just moved it, my gut feeling is
>> that there is a cable loose and bouncing about in there.
>>
>> -John
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf
>> Of Julian Grunnell
>> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:29 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [load balancing] F5 D39 / BIGIP 1000 hardware fault
>>
>> Hi - hope someone can help me with a hardware problem that has arisen
>> since one of our F5 BIGIP 1000's moved data centres. It was working
>> perfectly fine before the move, but now when you power the unit on it
>> simply sits with this on the console attached to it:
>>
>> System is booting, Please wait .....
>>
>>
>> I've left it like this from 5mins to over 12hrs and nothing, it just
>> sits there.
>>
>>
>> The unit is well out of warranty and with no support on it so can't
go
>> to F5 for help. The netboot feature still works so have also tried to
>> perform a fresh install of BIGIP v9.0, 9.01, 9.1 & 9.13 - ALL these
>> versions work on BIGIP 1000's as per the release notes and I've
>> installed these before on this hardware without issue. Each time I
try
>> to install the process starts off as expected but then fails with
>errors
>> that it can't find the harddrive or any install slots - well the
>1000's
>> don't have a hard drive, just 512mb of compact flash.
>>
>> I've captured the output to screen and am hoping someone might have
>seen
>> this before, be able to shed some light on this, or just let me know
>> whats going on?
>>
>>
>> ** <START OF NETBOOT> **
>> Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
>> Copyright (C) 1997-2000  Intel Corporation
>>
>> CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 01 D7 42 1D 40  GUID:
>> FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
>> CLIENT IP: 10.1.10.209  MASK: 255.255.255.0  DHCP IP: 10.1.10.199
>>
>> Press m or Control-SPACE to view menu ... (10)
>>
>>                       F5 BIG-IP Network Installation
>>
>> Loading vmlinuz.......................
>> Loading
>>
>initrd.img.............................................................
.
>>
>.......................................................................
.
>> ........
>>
>.......................................................................
.
>> ........
>> .....
>> Ready.
>> INIT: version 2.84 booting
>> ---DISABLING TG3 DRIVER---
>> ==== DONE PROBING MODULES ====
>> Thu Jun 18 10:53:32 UTC 2009
>> Linux (none) 2.4.21 #2 Mon Jul 30 05:19:45 PDT 2007 i686 i686 i386
>> GNU/Linux
>> processor       : 0
>> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
>> cpu family      : 6
>> model           : 8
>> model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
>> stepping        : 10
>> cpu MHz         : 996.632
>> cache size      : 256 KB
>> fdiv_bug        : no
>> hlt_bug         : no
>> f00f_bug        : no
>> coma_bug        : no
>> fpu             : yes
>> fpu_exception   : yes
>> cpuid level     : 2
>> wp              : yes
>> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr
pge
>> mca cmov
>> pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
>> bogomips        : 1985.74
>>
>> Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0rc12
>> Copyright 1995-2001 Internet Software Consortium.
>> All rights reserved.
>> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
>>
>> Listening on LPF/eth0/00:01:d7:42:1d:40
>> Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:01:d7:42:1d:40
>> Listening on LPF/lo/
>> Sending on   LPF/lo/
>> Sending on   Socket/fallback
>> DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
>> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
>> DHCPOFFER from 10.1.10.199
>> DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
>> DHCPACK from 10.1.10.199
>> bound to 10.1.10.209 -- renewal in 284 seconds.
>> ==== Uncompressing zoneinfo  ====
>> /usr/share /
>> /
>> INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
>>
>> Complete F5 platform detection...
>> platform=D39 family=0x20000000
>> Terminal type? [vt100]
>> Please wait; inspecting current system... (~10 seconds)
>> surveying disks
>> ====Transferring====
>> package set:
>> repository: http://10.1.10.199/cdserver
>> name: BIG-IP
>> version: 9.1.3
>> transfer product: http://10.1.10.199/cdserver/BIGIP913 to
>> /var/tmp/install/BIGIP913
>> ====Transferring====
>> package set:
>> repository: http://10.1.10.199/cdserver
>> name: isolinux
>> version:
>> transfer product: http://10.1.10.199/cdserver/isolinux to
>> /var/tmp/install/isoli
>> nux
>> Results will be sent to install log /var/log/install.dialog.log.
>> Starting syslogd for status logging
>> Terminated
>> install.info: ====Begin installation user dialog====
>> install.error: There were no boot images found on the system.
>> install.info: The installation was cancelled.
>> Press return to reboot the machine.
>>
>>
>> And that's it, all I can do is reboot and the whole cycle starts
over.
>> In the console window, the title bar just states "FATAL Error: cannot
>> find a hard drive"
>>
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Julian.
>>
>>
>> Julian Grunnell
>> UNIX Systems Administrator (Leeds)
>> Webfusion
>>
>> Tel: 0208 587 7212
>> Mob: 07803 649593
>> Web: http://www.webfusion.co.uk/
>>
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