Hi folks,
Help needed.
machine: dec2100_a500 with one cpu, 128 Mbytes, 3chan raid controller.
re0 is one disk - JOBD, re1 is one disk - JOBD, re2 is a RAID 5 array of 4
disks.
The system was running OSF1-3.0 . An distribution disk arrived,
labled 3.0B . Rashly I decided to install it. I did a /sbin/installupdate
and answered a few questions. Eventually it said it would shutdown and
reboot to configure the devices. It shutdown ok, but on rebooting it said:
normal stuff up to configuring xcr0, and reporting the disks.
bootdevice_parser: unknown protocol name 'RAID'
setconf: Bootdevice parser failed to translate bootdevice RAID 1 5 0 0 1 0 0
panic (cpu 0): setconf: bootdevice parser failed
DUMP: No dump device.
halted cpu 0
I booted from the 3.0B cdrom and did an advanced installation (onto
a different disk - re2 this time) and got exactly the same problem at the
first reboot.
Attempting to boot a copy of the pre upgrade disk (on re1) gave the
same error!
Copying a known working root partition from another machine gives
the same error.
So I tried upgrading the firmware. Still same error.
Anyone know what I've done wrong? Or better yet, how to fix it?
Currently I can only boot off the cdrom... No other boot works...
Any help gratefully appreciated.
Keith Lewis
keithl_at_mukluk.cc.monash.edu.au
Received on Mon Jan 09 1995 - 18:40:21 NZDT