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Unable to reconfigure ONTAP due to boot device error

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Applies to

ONTAP 9

Issue

  • During a node repurpose activity, nodes were unjoined (with errors) from a cluster.
  • Later attempts at 9a/9b procedure fail with error:
 
The boot device has changed. System configuration information
could be lost. Use option (6) to restore the system configuration, or
option (4) to initialize all disks and setup a new system.
Normal Boot is prohibited.

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