9372 PX-E not booting - Donner ASIC not detected - Sleeping 30 seconds

[Thomas Obbekaer Thomsen]

So I had a couple of 9372 "sitting on a shelve" for a while , and thought I might donate them to a local technical school or a local LAN party for backbone ..... or something ...

So I hooked them back up with power in order to remove all my old config from them.

One booted just fine, but the other one .... not so much.

This is the console output from boot.

Boot Time: 4/22/2023 17:36:12
Installing klm_card_index
done
Linking n9k flash devices
creating flash devices BOOT_DEV= sda
INIT: version 2.88 booting
Installing ata_piix module ... done.
Unsquashing rootfs ...
Total size needed in bootflash is 111696
check bootflash : OK
Total size needed in bootflash is 41264
check bootflash : OK
Enabling 8250 serial driver spurious INTs workaround
Installing isan procfs ... done.
Installing SSE module with card index 21025 ... done.
Creating SSE device node 247 ... done.
Inserting kernel_services module ... done.
Making kernel_services character devices
cgroups initialized
is_lxc: is_titan_eor: is_stby: suffix: klm_ftrace: /isanboot/lib/modules/klm_ftrace.o
Installing ftrace in non-lxc mode done
Checking SSD firmware ...
Model Number: Micron_M600_MTFDDAT064MBF
Serial Number: MSA19520CP2
Firmware Revision: MC04
Loading I2C driver ... done.
Loading MEM scrub driver ... done.
Installing CCTRL driver for card_type 19 without NEED_GEM ... done.
Loading IGB driver ...
Checking all filesystems.
Extracting rpms from image...
done.
Installing SPROM driver ... 21025 IS_N9K done.
Installing pfmsvcs module ...done.
Installing nvram module ... done.
Installing if_index module with port mode 6 ... done.
Installing fcfwd
Installing RNI lcnd ... done
Installing LC netdev ... done
Installing psdev module ... done.
Installing veobc module ... done.
Checking SR card
Card Index is 21025
Inserting eMMC module ...
Inserting mtdphysmap module...Inserting OBFL module ... done.
Making OBFL character devices
mounting plog for N9k!
Mounting OBFL pstore for mtd
/
Calling install_tor for TOR
Removing any system startup links for cgroups-init ...
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/cgroups-init.
Removing any system startup links for docker ...
Running groupadd commands...
NOTE: docker: Performing groupadd with [ -r docker]
Running useradd commands...
NOTE: docker: Performing useradd with [ -r -U -s /bin/false dockremap]
update-alternatives: Linking /bin/vi to /usr/bin/vim.vim
update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/vim to /usr/bin/vim.vim
update-alternatives: Linking /usr/bin/xxd to /usr/bin/xxd.vim
Starting portmap daemon...
creating NFS state directory: done
starting 8 nfsd kernel threads: done
starting mountd: done
starting statd: done
exit code: 1
old data: 40 new data: 3c
old data: 3c new data: 38
old data: 38 new data: 30
old data: 30 new data: 20
old data: 20 new data: 0
old data: 0 new data: 40
old data: 40 new data: 3c
old data: 3c new data: 38
old data: 38 new data: 30
old data: 30 new data: 20
old data: 20 new data: 0
old data: 0 new data: 40
old data: 40 new data: 3c
old data: 3c new data: 38
old data: 38 new data: 30
old data: 30 new data: 20
old data: 20 new data: 0
old data: 0 new data: 40
old data: 40 new data: 3c
old data: 3c new data: 38
old data: 38 new data: 30
old data: 30 new data: 20
old data: 20 new data: 0
old data: 0 new data: 40
old data: 40 new data: 3c
old data: 3c new data: 38
old data: 38 new data: 30
old data: 30 new data: 20
old data: 20 new data: 0
old data: 0 new data: 40
Donner ASIC not detected - Sleeping 30 seconds will rescan
old data: 40 new data: 3c
old data: 3c new data: 38
old data: 38 new data: 30
old data: 30 new data: 20
old data: 20 new data: 0
old data: 0 new data: 40
old data: 40 new data: 3c
old data: 3c new data: 38
old data: 38 new data: 30
old data: 30 new data: 20
old data: 20 new data: 0
old data: 0 new data: 40
old data: 40 new data: 3c
old data: 3c new data: 38
old data: 38 new data: 30
old data: 30 new data: 20
old data: 20 new data: 0
old data: 0 new data: 40
old data: 40 new data: 3c
old data: 3c new data: 38
old data: 38 new data: 30
old data: 30 new data: 20
old data: 20 new data: 0
old data: 0 new data: 40
old data: 40 new data: 3c
old data: 3c new data: 38
old data: 38 new data: 30
old data: 30 new data: 20
old data: 20 new data: 0
old data: 0 new data: 40
Donner ASIC not detected - Sleeping 30 seconds will rescan
old data: 40 new data: 3c
old data: 3c new data: 38
old data: 38 new data: 30
old data: 30 new data: 20
old data: 20 new data: 0
old data: 0 new data: 40
old data: 40 new data: 3c
old data: 3c new data: 38
old data: 38 new data: 30
old data: 30 new data: 20
old data: 20 new data: 0
old data: 0 new data: 40

Is this just dead, and should just go to the recycle bin ? (Since my speciality is primarily wireless, I dont have much experience here).

Thanks

Thomas

[Christopher Hart · Accepted solution]

Hi Thomas!

Unfortunately, this switch has most likely encountered an irreparable hardware failure. These logs indicate the switch is searching for the ASIC responsible for the uplink ports of the switch (the yellow-highlighted 40Gbps ports on the right hand side of the switch), but the ASIC does not appear to be online. Regrettably, there is no way to "bypass" this check, even if one does not need to use the uplink ports of the switch.

Apologies for being the bearer of bad news, but I hope you found this helpful! Thank you!

-Christopher

[Thomas Obbekaer Thomsen]

No worries, I just appreciate the answer.

Well the PSUs and fans can be used for "backups" on the functional one. The rest of it I will dispose of responsible . The students will most likely still appreciate working with just one. Thanks.