Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Setting Up and Administering an HP-UX NFS Diskless Cluster

Booting New Clients

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NOTE Some Series 700 workstations can use either the hardware address

or the IP address of the server. Check your Owner’s Guide.

4. Boot the client. Enter:

boot primary

NOTE The initial boot of a cluster client takes much longer than subsequent

boots (as much as 30 minutes or more). During the initial boot, system

conﬁguration ﬁles, device ﬁles, and private directories are created and

put in place. The amount of time required varies with the amount of

software to be conﬁgured, the load on the cluster server, and the load on

the network.

When the cluster client has booted, you will see the login prompt. If you

have a shared policy for user/group data, log in under an account on the

server. If you have a private policy for user/group data, log in as root

(with no password); set the root password immediately to prevent any

possible security breach.

If the login succeeds, the cluster client is ready to use.

If the login fails, you might be booted to a different system (the login

prompt message might tell you where). For example, you might have

selected the wrong system to boot from or you might have set the wrong

system as the primary boot device. There might be other problems as

well. Check the SAM log ﬁle for conﬁguration errors.

NOTE If you have a functional operating system on a local disk, you can set it as

the alternate/secondary boot path, which can be booted manually.

To boot the client as a member of another cluster, you must redeﬁne the

primary boot path accordingly.