FAS3210 stuck booting to LOADER

AlphaCentanni — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:32:09 GMT

Hello all,

First time poster. I'm running into an issue with a FAS3210 and I'm looking for some expertise.

A few months ago, we upgraded our FAS from 8.1.1 7-Mode to 8.2.3 7-Mode. I had followed a list of steps provided by tech support which involved terminating cifs shares and initiating a takeover. Reboots were done, no errors, everything has been running fine. Then about a week ago, I did a reboot on the B side of the unit and now it only boots to the LOADER prompt. Here is what I see when it starts up:

Phoenix TrustedCore(tm) Server
Copyright 1985-2006 Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
All Rights Reserved
BIOS version: 5.3.0
Portions Copyright (c) 2007-2014 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserved

CPU = 1 Processors Detected, Cores per Processor = 2
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5220 @ 2.33GHz
Testing RAM
512MB RAM tested
5120MB RAM installed
6144 KB L2 Cache
System BIOS shadowed
USB 2.0: MICRON eUSB DISK
BIOS is scanning PCI Option ROMs, this may take a few seconds...
ERROR
SP - FRU IPMI Read Error

CPU Type: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5220 @ 2.33GHz
BIOS POST Failure(s) detected. Abort AUTOBOOT
LOADER-B>

If I run boot_ontap, I see this:

LOADER-B> boot_ontap
Loading X86_64/freebsd/image2/kernel:0x100000/9574160 0xa21710/4044936 Entry at 0x8016e4a0
Loading X86_64/freebsd/image2/platform.ko:0xdfd000/785704 0xf9ad68/724104 0xebcd40/45064 0x104b9f0/49728 0xec7d48/110175 0xee2ba7/80605 0xef66a0/172160 0x1057c30/195312 0xf20720/16 0xf20730/2448 0x1087720/7344 0xf21100/0 0xf21100/344 0x10893d0/1032 0xf21258/1952 0x10897d8/5856 0xf219f8/1648 0x108aeb8/4944 0xf22068/240 0x108c208/720 0xf22160/448 0xf5d860/14942 0xf9ac6b/253 0xf612c0/136560 0xf82830/99387
Starting program at 0x8016e4a0
NetApp Data ONTAP 8.2.3 7-Mode
***************************************************
This platform is not supported in this release.
The system will now halt
***************************************************

I've tried running boot_backup and I see this:

LOADER-B> boot_backup
Loading X86_64/freebsd/image1/kernel:0x100000/8252680 0x8ded08/1275584 Entry at 0x801582e0
Loading X86_64/freebsd/image1/platform.ko:0xa17000/613472 0xb49908/638088 0xaacc60/38888 0xbe5590/41184 0xab6448/80684 0xac9f74/61528 0xad8fe0/132480 0xbef670/148824 0xaf9560/1560 0xc13bc8/4680 0xaf9b78/288 0xc14e10/864 0xaf9c98/1656 0xc15170/4968 0xafa310/960 0xc164d8/2880 0xafa6d0/184 0xc17018/552 0xafa7a0/448 0xb22ae0/12458 0xb49816/237 0xb25b90/80184 0xb394c8/66382
Starting program at 0x801582e0
NetApp Data ONTAP 8.1.1 7-Mode

PANIC : The 0 is not a supported platform

version: 8.1.1: Mon Jul 30 12:49:46 PDT 2012
conf : x86_64
cpuid = 0
Uptime: 1s

The operating system has halted.
Please press any key to reboot.

System halting...
cpu_reset called on cpu#0

I'm at a loss and not sure what else to check. Any suggestions on where to look next?

Any help would be greatly apprecaited.

Re: FAS3210 stuck booting to LOADER

aborzenkov — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 06:23:24 GMT

Looks like mnotherboard replacement is in order. You need to open case with NetApp support.

Re: FAS3210 stuck booting to LOADER

PIYUSHBANSAL198722 — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:01:01 GMT

Yes, looks like some hardware replacement is needed

Open a case with Netapp

Re: FAS3210 stuck booting to LOADER

AlphaCentanni — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:45:49 GMT

Thanks for the info guys. That points me in the right direction.

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