Hi,
I have a problem with an Alphastation 200. In preparation to upgrade to
4.0 from 3.2C, I upgraded the firmware using the 3.5 release firmware CDROM.
I then rebooted the machine without problems. I took the machine down to
single user and ran installupdate - again no problems. After a couple of hours
the upgrade completed - I wasn't there all the time but I didn't notice any
error messages come up. The machine then attempted to reboot for the final
configuration phase - problem. The reboot first comes up with a warning -
after "using 238 buffers containing ....[etc] " comes a line saying
"DDR_warning: Uable to obtain device information database.
Unable to open file /etc/ddr.db
DDR_warning: basic defaults will be used". It looks like the upgrade procedure
has hosed this file. Anyhow, the reboot procedure continues to the point
"rz0 at ....[etc] , rz4 at scsi 0 target 4" then comes "isa0 at pci0"
then the next line "panic (cpu0): rmalloc" then "DUMP: No primary swap,
no explicit devdump. Nowhere to put header, giving up. CP-SAVE_TERM routine
to be called CP-SAVE_TERM exited with hlt-req=1."
The machine halts then retries the boot with the same result, over and
over. I thought this panic might have to do with the missing /etc/ddr.db file,
so I tried booting from the installation CDROM with boot dka400. This time
there are no warnings about the DDR, but the system panics in the same place
in the boot procedure. So it seems like the problem is independent of
whether I boot from disk or from CDROM?
Any ideas on this - I've upgraded several other Alphastation 200s with no
problems - there's always 1 that goes wrong...
Thanks,
Julyan
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Received on Wed Oct 02 1996 - 17:34:48 NZST