[kristo]

I thought i would share this with you guys,

I am here now (yes, right now) installing some LPARs via NIM and was up to all hours last night wondering why the $%$! it wasn't working. It did its bootp thing, loaded the kernel then hung on 0608. Strange.

These LPARs are going to be installed via LPAR, resources allocated fine (mksysb/spot/lpp_source and my bosinst.data for unatteneded install). I also set it to use unattended install as well when I did the bos_inst operation on the LPARs.

so I scracted my head, checked all I could think of (set ips manually in open firmware thinking maybe its a dhcp thing even though i doubted it, checked nfs, my exports, all looked ok)...did some google searching, some people said it could be a nfs issue, if it was, i couldn't see it.

Then just now, I tried again only this time not to force the unattended. Works.

This is on a nim box running AIX 5.3 TL5.

So, moral is setup unattended via your bosinst.data and be careful when forcing it via the nim bos_inst action.

Just so you know.