Dear all....
We have had a test 2100a 5/300, 2 CPU, 512Mb memory for a while, with
an external boot disk (on a KZPAA-AA) running DUnix 3.2g (and Sybase 11), which
has been running very well. We got a replacement machine, identically configured (the
first had to be returned, for reasons I won't go into...), and I did an NT 3.51 install on the
2G RZ28 disk that came with the new system, and ran it under NT for a while, to exercise it.
Anyway, it came time to dismantle the first box, so I ran the ECU 1.9 diskette (for VMS/Unix), on
the 2nd machine to set it up for Unix, moved the disks from the first, and the boot process hangs
after the line "jumping to bootstrap code" (the next line should look something like "OSFboot.....).
I also tried booting off the DU 3.2g CD, this hung also.
Thinking I had made an error in running the ECU, I did it again. (Incidentally, there are differing instructions
on how to run the ECU in the Owner's Guide page 3-27, where it is recommended that the Halt button
be in on power-up before running ECU, while in the CPU Upgrade manual, page 5-2, no mention is
made of the Halt button position. Which is right?)
This time round, the system booted off the CD. But moving a system disk to the machine, and
trying to boot off it, again failed. And I can't boot from the CD anymore...
Any ideas?
Machine details at end... All the firmware and cards etc. are identical on both machines.
Please reply to: oisin_at_sbcm.com, and I will summarize if appropriate.
Thanks!
Oisin McGuinness
Sumitomo Bank Capital Markets
277 Park Avenue
New York NY 10172
USA
(212)-224-4913, email: oisin_at_sbcm.com
---------------- Output of show conf on the troublesome 2100a --------
(with no external disks attached...)
P00>>>show conf
Digital Equipment Corporation
AlphaServer 2100A 5/300
SRM Console V4.5-65 VMS PALcode V1.18-1, OSF PALcode V1.21-1
Component Status Module ID
CPU 0 P B2040-BA DECchip (tm) 21164-5
CPU 1 P B2040-BA DECchip (tm) 21164-5
Memory 0 P B2022-FA 512 MB
I/O B2222-AA
dva0.0.0.1000.0 RX26/RX23
Slot Option Hose 0, Bus 0, PCI
2 Intel 82375EB Bridge to Bus 1, EISA
3 DECchip 21050-AA Bridge to Bus 2, PCI
6 S3 Trio64/Trio32
8 NCR 53C810 pkb0.7.0.8.0 SCSI Bus ID 7
Slot Option Hose 0, Bus 1, EISA
Slot Option Hose 0, Bus 2, PCI
1 NCR 53C810 pka0.7.0.2001.0 SCSI Bus ID 7
dka0.0.0.2001.0 RZ28D
dka600.6.0.2001.0 RRD45
6 DECchip 21040-AA ewa0.0.0.2006.0 00-00-F8-22-99-99
--------------------- and this is what happens when we try to boot from CD ----
P00>>>init
P00>>>
P00>>>show boot*
boot_dev
boot_file
boot_osflags
boot_reset ON
bootdef_dev
booted_dev
booted_file
booted_osflags
P00>>> show version
version V4.5-65 May 9 1996 09:07:37
P00>>>boot dka600
(boot dka600.6.0.2001.0)
block 0 of dka600.6.0.2001.0 is a valid boot block
reading 16 blocks from dka600.6.0.2001.0
bootstrap code read in
base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 2000
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 1f2000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code
----- and that's all it said!! -------------------
Received on Fri Jan 17 1997 - 15:57:26 NZDT