Something else to consider is there might be multiple paths to this server. Does the server have multiple NICs? Are those NICs on the same network or different networks? Different VLANs? I've run into instances where a linux server had old DNS and IP...

So my issue was the switch was completely wiped. When I say completely I mean flash:packages.conf didn't even exist. Because of this trying to do emergency-install or anything else didn't work. What did work was the "set" command. I changed the BOOT ...