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During Bare Metal Restore of a compute node, the node reboots as expected but instead of booting normally it boots back to the network configuration again.

Applies to:

Symptoms

During Bare Metal Restore (BMR) re-imaging of an Exadata compute node:

• Network configuration steps as detailed in Task 6 of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine Maintenance Guide (section 2.16.6) have been completed.
• The node reboots as expected but instead of booting normally it boots back to the network configuration again.
• None of the network configuration information entered before the reboot has been saved.

Cause

A required service was not started during the network configuration.

Solution

1. Complete the interactive network setup again.

2. After answering the question "Do you want to configure basic ILOM settings (y/n) [y]:n", networking will start. Log in to the node as root via ssh, console, etc.

3. Once logged in, start the service that failed to start.

4. Ensure the vldrun.pl script was automatically started when step 3 was executed (ps -fe |grep vldrun).

    If the script is running, go to #5.

    If the script is not running, start it manually.

5. Reboot the node.

    The node should reboot normally and you can continue with Task 7 (section 2.16.7) in the maintenance guide.

    If any errors are encountered in the steps above or the node does not reboot normally, open a Service Request with Oracle Support.

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