Hi,
Thanks for the suggestions from various folks. I've salvaged
the hardware upgrade without reinstalling every thing from
scratch, or making the DEC Engineer downgrade, so that I could
update to 3.2D-2 and then upgrade back the hardware.
Thanks to :-
Richard Jackson
Dr. Tom Blinn
Walter Alpuin
Kent Poots
Dr Blinn was kind and very patient enough to walk me through the
extracting of the genvmunix from the 3.2D CD on to the root
filesystem.
The exact sequence was as follows:
1. Boot from the 3.2D CD rom, and select 3 (System management as option)
at this point a mininal / is mounted in memory file system and the
CD is mounted in /kit
2. Since I had Advfs as root file system, I followed this procedure -
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV rz0
[That was where my original root partition was]
cd /etc
mkdir fdmns
cd fdmns
mkdir root_domain
cd root_domain
ln -s /dev/rz0a
mount -t advfs root_domain#root /mnt
rm /mnt/genvmunix
cat /kit/ALPHA/hUPDATE/OSFHWBASE365 | compress -d | tar xvpf - /mnt/genvmunix
This version of genvmunix understands the ev5 boards as well as
2100A backplane. Now boot genvmunix and proceed as usual.
anil
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My original post:
PROBLEM: The machine does not boot after hardware upgrade.
BACKGROUND: An Alpha 2100 4/200 (e4) was upgraded to Alpha2100A 5/300
in one fell swoop. The machine was running 3.2C.
After upgrading the firmware and following instructions to
install upgrade 3.2D-2, the processor comes back saying
WARNING: proc_type 5 / sys_type 18 unknown
It then throws me back to P00> prompt. I do understand that 3.2C will not
recognize 2100A, however according to release notes for 3.2D, Figure 1.1,
indicates that prior to upgrading the backplane from 2100 to 2100A one
should be in 3.2C.
While the DEC engineer was doing the back plane upgrade, I told him
that the firmware was the one from the version 3.5 CD, which seemed
more recent than shipped with CPU or backplane (2100A), hence we upgraded
the firmware directly to 2100a_e5_v4_4.exe. That is the only deviation
we did from the norm. Instead of 2100a_e5_v4_3.exe.
Short of downgrading (UGH!!!!), or doing a fresh install, do I have a
way to get to a single user mode ?
What I did try (at the suggestion of DEC support), boot -fi genvmunix
without avail.
I have currently CDs for 3.2C, 3.2D, 3.2E, If I were to begin a fresh install
where should I begin with ?
Anil Khullar
Graduate School & University Center
City University of New York
33 W 42nd St. New York NY 10036
Received on Mon Jul 15 1996 - 15:25:53 NZST