topic Re: Help needed booting FAS3140 in ONTAP Hardware

Help needed booting FAS3140

NETAPPISM — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:40:08 GMT

I have a FAS3140 with (2) 4243 shelves holding (24) X412A-R5 drives each.
I can boot the FAS to console mode, basic commands are listed,

but can't get Ontap (8.1.2/BIOS 4.4.0) to boot and see the drives, any ideas?

Re: Help needed booting FAS3140

YEKYAWTHARMYINT — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 08:45:13 GMT

What really does you mean that can boot to console mode? Which prompt can you see? LOADER>? if you can see LOADER> try boot_ontap command

Regards

Re: Help needed booting FAS3140

NETAPPISM — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:36:04 GMT

Yes, I am at the LOADER> prompt,

all the basic commands are available.

When I issue a boot_ontap,

the FAS goes into reboot mode and back to the LOADER> prompt

Note…..when the FAS is booting, I can't ^C to get into the boot menu.

Any thoughts on that?

Re: Help needed booting FAS3140

YEKYAWTHARMYINT — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:34:20 GMT

can you post here printenv command here? We need to check the some parameter.

Another way is you can try netboot.

1. configure either you computer or another storage system as a tftp or http server.

2. Copy the netboot image to server folder.

3. set ip address your 3140 to connect to tftp server. (LOADER> ifconfig e0a -addr=filer_addr -mask=netmask) (ifconfig e0a -addr=10.10.10.2 -mast=255.255.255.0)

4. LOADER>netboot URL (example: netboot tftp://myserver/bootimages/ontap/release_netboot.e )