Hello,
I have a Digital Personal WorkStation 500au running
Digital UNIX V4.0F (Rev. 1229)., with four AdvFS
partitions. The root domain is on the "a" partition.
It has an intermittent boot problem. About 1 of 10
boots will not read the boot block on the DEC RZ1CC-BA
disk. The message is something like "Can't read device dkc.0.0.1009.0"
After the firmware tries two or three times it sometimes
succeeds. Other times this happens, a cycle via the
front pwr switch is needed.
Today, I got this message during bootup.
"Block 0 of dkc.0.0.0.1009.0 is a valid boot block."
...omitted ordinary boot up msgs...
"can't open osf_boot"
After a couple of attempts of booting from the
cmd prompt, it came up. It takes many reboots
for the concern to re-occur.
The only odd thing I see is that the disklabel
shows "flags: dynamic_geometry" when using the
disklabel with -p switch. Using disklabel -r,
the "flags:" field is empty.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks,
Richard Phipps
System Administrator
Blacksburg Electronic Village
email: rphipps_at_bev.org
Received on Wed Jul 28 1999 - 18:20:45 NZST