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wbbigdave_97776
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratus520 constantly rebooting
Hello!
I recently tried to upgrade my BigIP 520 (backup system) to a newer version of LTM as it was a LB that had broken down, and we dont run 4.x on the box. the installation seemed to be fine, but when I went to boot it i got nothing from the Console or the monitor except a never ending loop of booting. I gets to the loading kernel section then reboots.
I am currently trying to perform a clean install of software over the offending one but at the moment I am having no luck.
Any suggestions on what the problem would be or how to solve it would be much appreciated.
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hoolioCirrostratus
So which version of OS is the unit running currently? What do you see on the console now? Do you have a support contract for the unit?
If not, when was the last time the unit did have support? Once you get the unit booting, you can reactivate the license and view the service check date. It must be later than the release date of the OS version you're wanting to install. See SOL7277 for details on this:
SOL7727: A service check date that is earlier than the license check date now requires you to relicense the system before upgrading
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/700/sol7727.html
Aaron
wbbigdave_97776I am currently trying to run 9.2 or 9.4, trying, being the most important word.
The box is in support but i am trying to fix this on my own as it is a test box and will provide me with good training and support experience.- wbbigdave_97776Sorry forgot to say, the console gives me the boot partition choice and then when you select one gives the normal loading screens before rebooting and starting the whole thing all over again.
- hoolioCan you log the serial console output of a boot up to the point of failure and post the text here?
Thanks,
Aaron - wbbigdave_97776Booting 'BIG-IP 9.2.3 Build 34.8 - drive hda.2'
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz.hda.2 ro root=/dev/hda10 console=ttyS0,19200 panic=1 mem
=256M quiet platform=D35
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x18b787]
Thats all i get, when you use the monitor all you see is loading GRUB and then back to the f5 splash
Sorry after that on the monitor it does say Uncompressing linux ok....booting the Kernel then reboot! - wbbigdave_97776Ok Just got this dump out with a verbose output
Linux version 2.4.21-9.2.2.72.0smp (root@woody.f5net.com) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-52)) 2 SMP Tue Nov 22 23:03:41 PST 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec02000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
user-defined physical RAM map:
user: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
user: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
user: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
user: 0000000000100000 - 0000000010000000 (usable)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
256MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
hm, page 000ff000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00100000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f0000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice.
NX protection not present; using segment protection
On node 0 totalpages: 65536
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61440 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: AMI Product ID: CNB30LE APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor 0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Processor 1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
I/O APIC 8 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
I/O APIC 9 Version 17 at 0xFEC01000.
Processors: 2
xAPIC support is not present
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 2 I/O APICs
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda5 console=ttyS0,19200 panic=1 mem=256M verbose platform=D35
e100: platform D35
usb-uhci: disabled for platform D35
usb-ohci: disabled for platform D35
mapped 4G/4G trampoline to fffd7000.
Initializing CPU0
Detected 996.880 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1985.74 BogoMIPS
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 256 KB)
Page-pin hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 64 KB)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 256 KB)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 128 KB)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 64 KB)
Memory: 250248k/262144k available (2111k kernel code, 9460k reserved, 1461k data, 220k init, 0k highmem)
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU serial number disabled.
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU0.
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU0.
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 0a
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.68 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 10 msecs.
enabled ExtINT on CPU0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000004
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000
