If you see that the hardware boot display stays on the front panel for more than three minutes, the node cannot boot. The cause might be a hardware failure or the software on the hard disk drive is missing or damaged.
The following figure
shows an example of a hardware
boot display.
Perform the following steps to determine a hardware boot failure:
- Attempt to restore the software by using the node rescue procedure.
- If node rescue fails, perform the actions that are described for any failing node rescue code or procedure.