Cwaeth Darrell Root:
If you erase the vast majority of your disks, you may have trouble the next time you reboot unless you download. The problem was easily repeatable.
It'd be nice to know if Netapp tracked this one down.
We're currently testing some changes to the boot firmware and the bootblocks that should make booting in this sort of situation more robust. Your situation is a good corner case, and I'll make sure that we test for that possibility, if we haven't already. As always, release information will come out via the usual channels when the software is ready.
I reported the bug to netapp unofficially (since the box was a eval), but never heard if they tracked down the problem. I'd suggest doing the download after the vol destroy/vol create operation even though in theory it's not necessary.
In theory it's not necessary, but downloading again doesn't hurt anything, so at the risk of promulgating a new Urban Filer Legend, I say, "In this case, go ahead and download."
Mike Tuciarone Kernel Porting, Booting, & Other Gross Stuff Network Appliance