topic Re: Issue with netbooting a FSA 2040 filer in Active IQ and AutoSupport Discussions

Issue with netbooting a FSA 2040 filer

cwnetappnewbie — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:18:39 GMT

Unable to netboot a FAS 2040 filer (error message in file attached)

It is part of a HA cluster that was partly upgraded, the 1st node was upgraded to ontap 8.1 7-Mode, while the 2nd node was accidentaly rebooted prior to been upgraded and hae not been able to get it back up since

Any recommendations on how to get it back up will be appreciated (fortuantely it is not in production)

Re: Issue with netbooting a FSA 2040 filer

hariprak — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 11:49:36 GMT

Hi,

Hope this helps, https://kb.netapp.com/support/s/article/NETBOOT-FAQS

Thanks

Re: Issue with netbooting a FSA 2040 filer

cwnetappnewbie — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 09:35:01 GMT

Thanks, was able to resolve it,

appears the windows server I was using as to host the netboot files was the issue,

Used the partnet filer and was able to netboot correctly