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Cat9300 failing to boot with the below logs: Mainboard hardware authentication failed. Abort init ...
Seen issue when a Cat9300 is reloaded using, 1. reload command 2. part of upgrade 3. power cycle
If running an older release like 16.3 or 16.6 pease open a TAC case and check if the box can be recovered. Issue is fixed in all 16.9.x/16.10.x/16.11.x/16.12.x releases.
Not necessarily a hardware issue
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