Symbolic FRU FWHOST can help in the event that your server appears hung while booting.

If the system is not connected to an active network or if the target server is inaccessible (this can also result from incorrect IP parameters being supplied), the system will still attempt to boot and, because timeout durations are necessarily long to accommodate retries, the system may appear to be hung.

Perform the following:

1. Restart the system and access the SMS utilities.
2. In the utilities menus, check the following:
   • Is the intended boot device correctly specified in the boot list?
   • Are the IP parameters correct?
   • Verify the network connection (the network could be down).
   • Have the network administrator verify the server configuration for this client.
   • Attempt to "ping" the target server using the SMS Ping utility.

This ends the procedure.