The thing that caused me to go into near heart failure was one server's misbehaving. I had just finished applying SP5 to one of the WUF servers and it was rebooting. It didn't come right up so I go back and look to see where it might be hung up. Instead what I see is the "Multiple abends occuring, processor halted" screen. Aie!
And it seemed to happen every time on reboot. Some quick looking showed that it happened pretty quickly after NILE.NLM loaded. But due to the nature of the problem, not abend.log was generated for me to know what exactly faulted.
So I drop 'er down to DOS and to a "SERVER -ns -na" and step through the launch process. During this time I noticed that the HP BIOS is expecting a "Windows" server. I thought that was odd, and put it on the list of things to change. I step through boot, and sure enough, during AUTOEXEC.NCF processing it bombs on the multiple-abends-occuring problem. Arrrg. Still don't know what module load caused the problem, though.
So I reboot and change the OS the BIOS is expecting to be NetWare, and reboot. It comes up just peachy.
oooookaaaay.... Didn't know it was that twitchy. Anyway, it is up and running just fine now.
Tags: NetWare, HP
And it seemed to happen every time on reboot. Some quick looking showed that it happened pretty quickly after NILE.NLM loaded. But due to the nature of the problem, not abend.log was generated for me to know what exactly faulted.
So I drop 'er down to DOS and to a "SERVER -ns -na" and step through the launch process. During this time I noticed that the HP BIOS is expecting a "Windows" server. I thought that was odd, and put it on the list of things to change. I step through boot, and sure enough, during AUTOEXEC.NCF processing it bombs on the multiple-abends-occuring problem. Arrrg. Still don't know what module load caused the problem, though.
So I reboot and change the OS the BIOS is expecting to be NetWare, and reboot. It comes up just peachy.
oooookaaaay.... Didn't know it was that twitchy. Anyway, it is up and running just fine now.
Tags: NetWare, HP