NetInstall working on some systems, not working on others

Hi,

I'm having an issue where my NetInstall setup works on some computers and fails on others. I am not able to diagnose the issue.

I created an image of a Mac Mini and then created a NetRestore image using the System Image Utility found on Snow Leopard Server. NetBoot and NFS all seem to be working fine on the server, which is an XServe.

Then I select the NetInstall image from the Startup Disk on a machine. On some of the machines, the process works as expected. On some of them, I see the globe icon blink a few times and then the system boots to the regular hard drive.

I have captured the tracedump and the system.log logs from the server on both cases where NetInstall seems to work and fail. Here is the link that has all the logs

http://gist.github.com/232232

The gist of the failure seems to be from the lack of BSDP DISCOVER in the failure but I'm not able to identify why that exactly is happening.

I'd really appreciate any help on this issue.

From serverfault cduruk

• Hi,

  First off, try a couple of diagnostic steps.

  If you hold down Option at boot rather than the 'N' key you should get a choice of boot devices that includes all your Netboot volumes. Try doing this rather than an 'N' boot and see how that goes.

  You might also try booting one of the 'broken' machines all the way to the desktop and then see if your Netboot image appears as a choice in the 'Startup Disk' in System Preferences.

  I'm assuming that both the 'broken' machines and working machines are in the same network segment so you are sure there are no firewall issues.

  // Tony

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