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Emulab FAQ: Testbed Operations: How do I diagnose Windows swap-in failures?

Emulab FAQ: Testbed Operations: How do I diagnose Windows swap-in failures?

If a Windows node fails and winds up in hwdown, see if you can slogin to it from boss as root. If you can, look at /var/log/bootsetup.log and that might provide some clue as to what happened.

bootsetup.log has all of the Emulab details, but covers only the last reboot.

/var/log/EmulabStartup.log covers all of the reboots since the "prepare" script was last run while making an XP image. But it gets just the Cygwin-specific part of the story (from rc.firstboot, rc.cygwinxp, and rc.reboot).

You can also look at the bootlog in the DB using the "Show Boot Log" option on the "Node Information" page.