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AFF A70 A90 or A1k will not boot after moving a PCI card to a different slot

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Applies to

  • AFF A70
  • AFF A90
  • AFF A1K

Issue

After moving a PCI card to a new slot, the node will not boot and outputs the following

LOADER-A> bye -g

BIOS Version: 20.0
Portions Copyright (C) 2014-2024 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Initializing System Memory ...
Loading Device Drivers ...
Configuring Devices ...
Device 6/0/0 (IO3) missing
Device(s) in slot missing, attempting to recover it.

System is resetting.

BIOS Version: 20.0
Portions Copyright (C) 2014-2024 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Initializing System Memory ...
Loading Device Drivers ...
Configuring Devices ...
Device 6/0/0 (IO3) missing
Device(s) in slot missing, attempting to recover it.

After cycling through this error a few times, the node is halted and the following is displayed:

BIOS POST Failure(s) detected: PCIe device missing error detected. Abort AUTOBOOT

 

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