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Newly installed AFF a250 fail to boot because nodes can not be intermixed

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Applies to

  • AFF a250

Issue

  • Newly installed nodes both fail to boot
  • Errors indicate the boot file is unreadable 
    ERROR: Error opening file on: 'boot0' file: fat://boot0/X86_64/Linux/image1/vmlinuz (boot0,fat)
  • Additional errors for incompatible systems in the same chassis 
    LOADER-A> autobootLoading X86_64/freebsd/image1/kernel:0x200000/1163120 0x31c000/10687120 0xf4d290/3994896 0x131c7a0/3896968 0x200240/1016 This controller and it's partner cannot intermix.Booting the Storage OS has been disabled.

 

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