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Hi all
I have used netinstall this week to clone my first lab. All our mac areas are on different subnets so i had to use the app netbootacrosssubnets. This worked fine for the first lab I did of 20 G5s.
I have now gone to a different lab. on a different subnet and tried the same. On boot I get the globe bellow the apple, then it starts to boot, followed by a kernal panic!
Ive tried redoing the clone, but it still does it!Anybody else had this?
Does the globe below the Apple spin ?
Try resetting PRAM.
yesafter a load of messing around I can get the globe to spin, the goes onto the loading sign, then onto a blue screen, and then it hangs on teh blue screen.
Its all very odd, I wish netinstall was designed to work accross subnets!This does not sound like a network issue. To troubleshoot, I might try taking one of the machines in the lab to the same subnet as the netboot server and see if it works. The only times i have had those sorts of spinning globe errors was when there was a problem with my image.
Netboot can work across subnets, but it needs some help. The protocol that is used to locate a netboot server is not routed. So your network guys have to create a helper address to forward the netboot broadcasts to the Netboot server.
Sheastill not got it working, but for the time being, i dont need to. I daisy chained teh macs together with firewire and used carbon copy cloner.
I wonder if Aple could build on netboot/netinstall to give a gui on netboot startup to pick sever details so that it works across subnets better.
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