520 constantly rebooting

So which version of OS is the unit running currently? What do you see on the console now? Do you have a support contract for the unit?

 

 

If not, when was the last time the unit did have support? Once you get the unit booting, you can reactivate the license and view the service check date. It must be later than the release date of the OS version you're wanting to install. See SOL7277 for details on this:

 

 

SOL7727: A service check date that is earlier than the license check date now requires you to relicense the system before upgrading

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/700/sol7727.html

 

 

Aaron

I am currently trying to run 9.2 or 9.4, trying, being the most important word.

 

 

The box is in support but i am trying to fix this on my own as it is a test box and will provide me with good training and support experience.

Sorry forgot to say, the console gives me the boot partition choice and then when you select one gives the normal loading screens before rebooting and starting the whole thing all over again.

Can you log the serial console output of a boot up to the point of failure and post the text here?

 

 

Thanks,

 

Aaron

Booting 'BIG-IP 9.2.3 Build 34.8 - drive hda.2'

 

 

kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz.hda.2 ro root=/dev/hda10 console=ttyS0,19200 panic=1 mem

 

=256M quiet platform=D35

 

[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x18b787]

 

 

 

Thats all i get, when you use the monitor all you see is loading GRUB and then back to the f5 splash

 

 

Sorry after that on the monitor it does say Uncompressing linux ok....booting the Kernel then reboot!

Ok Just got this dump out with a verbose output

 

 

Linux version 2.4.21-9.2.2.72.0smp (root@woody.f5net.com) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-52)) 2 SMP Tue Nov 22 23:03:41 PST 2005

 

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

 

BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)

 

BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)

 

BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)

 

BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)

 

BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec02000 (reserved)

 

BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)

 

BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)

 

user-defined physical RAM map:

 

user: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)

 

user: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)

 

user: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)

 

user: 0000000000100000 - 0000000010000000 (usable)

 

0MB HIGHMEM available.

 

256MB LOWMEM available.

 

found SMP MP-table at 000ff780

 

hm, page 000ff000 reserved twice.

 

hm, page 00100000 reserved twice.

 

hm, page 000f0000 reserved twice.

 

hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice.

 

NX protection not present; using segment protection

 

On node 0 totalpages: 65536

 

zone(0): 4096 pages.

 

zone(1): 61440 pages.

 

zone(2): 0 pages.

 

Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4

 

Virtual Wire compatibility mode.

 

OEM ID: AMI Product ID: CNB30LE APIC at: 0xFEE00000

 

Processor 0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17

 

Processor 1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17

 

I/O APIC 8 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.

 

I/O APIC 9 Version 17 at 0xFEC01000.

 

Processors: 2

 

xAPIC support is not present

 

Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 2 I/O APICs

 

Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda5 console=ttyS0,19200 panic=1 mem=256M verbose platform=D35

 

e100: platform D35

 

usb-uhci: disabled for platform D35

 

usb-ohci: disabled for platform D35

 

mapped 4G/4G trampoline to fffd7000.

 

Initializing CPU0

 

Detected 996.880 MHz processor.

 

Console: colour VGA+ 80x25

 

Calibrating delay loop... 1985.74 BogoMIPS

 

Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 256 KB)

 

Page-pin hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 64 KB)

 

Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 256 KB)

 

Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 128 KB)

 

Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 64 KB)

 

Memory: 250248k/262144k available (2111k kernel code, 9460k reserved, 1461k data, 220k init, 0k highmem)

 

Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized

 

Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

 

CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K

 

CPU: L2 cache: 256K

 

CPU serial number disabled.

 

Intel machine check architecture supported.

 

Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU0.

 

Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.

 

Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.

 

Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.

 

POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX

 

mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)

 

mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel

 

CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K

 

CPU: L2 cache: 256K

 

Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU0.

 

CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 0a

 

per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.68 usecs.

 

task migration cache decay timeout: 10 msecs.

 

enabled ExtINT on CPU0

 

ESR value before enabling vector: 00000004

 

ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000

 

Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000