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System boot-up fails up with "WARNING: 0 disks found" error after motherboard replacement

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Applies to

  • Motherboard replacement
    • This includes hardware refresh

Issue

  • System fails to boot up and restarts repeatedly with the following error:

WARNING: 0 disks found!

Storage Adapters found:
0 Fibre Channel Storage Adapters found!
2 SAS Adapters found!
0 Parallel SCSI Storage Adapters found!
0 ATA Adapters found!

Target Adapters found:
0 Fibre Channel Target Adapters found!
2 iSCSI Target Adapters found!
1 Unknown Target Adapters found!

WARNING: there do not appear to be any disks attached to the system.
Jan 15 18:49:54 [localhost:cf.fm.noMBDisksOrIc:warning]: Could not find the local mailbox disks. Could not determine the firmware state of the partner through the HA interconnect.
No root volume found.
Jan 15 18:49:55 [localhost:zapi.sf.up.ready:info]: ZAPI: system node stable after startup.
Rebooting... (press ctrl-c during boot to break reboot loop)
Uptime: 1m17s
System rebooting...

  • Old motherboard is still the disk owner even after completing the motherboard replacement procedure.

*> disk show  -v
Local System ID: 333333333

  DISK       OWNER                    POOL   SERIAL NUMBER         HOME                     DR HOME                CHKSUM
------------ -------------            -----  -------------         -------------            -------------          --------
......

0a.00.8      node-1  (111111111)    Pool0  Y5bxxxxxxxxx          node-1  (111111111)                          Block
0b.00.11     node-1  (111111111)    Pool0  Y5cxxxxxxxxx          node-1  (111111111)                          Block
0a.00.10     node-1  (111111111)    Pool0  Y5dxxxxxxxxx          node-1  (111111111)                          Block
0b.00.3      node-1  (111111111)    Pool0  Y5exxxxxxxxx          node-1  (111111111)                          Block
0b.00.9      node-1  (111111111)    Pool0  Y5fxxxxxxxxx          node-1  (111111111)                          Block
0b.00.5      node-1  (111111111)    Pool0  Y5gxxxxxxxxx          node-1  (111111111)                          Block

 

 

 

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