All;
Sorry for the lateness of this summary. It wasn't until two weekends ago
that we were able to attempt the upgrade again. Anyway, my original question:
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Today (Sunday 07/30/2000) we attempted to upgrade our 8400 from 4.0d patch
kit 4 to 4.0f. The system in question is:
Alpha 8400, 8 cpu, 12G RAM Console firmware 5.7-4, 4.0d Patch Kit 4
and after starting the installupdate and successfully loading 97 subsets
the upgrade process rebooted the system. Upon booting back up the following
error occurred:
Loading genvmunix ...
Current PAL Revision <0x10000100010115>
Switching to OSF PALcode Succeeded
New PAL Revision <0x10000100020117>
Mapping Image Address Space
overflowed third level page table
CPU 0 halted
halt code = 5
HALT instruction executed
PC = 20010600
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The problem was that there was a file named osf_boot.advfs residing in / in
addition to osf_boot. This file did not exist on any of our other servers,
all of which had upgraded successfully. I think the presence of the file
dates back to a failed 3.2 -> 4.0 upgrade (which was backed out) a few
years ago. Anyway, removing this file resolved the problem and we were then
able to successfully upgrade the 8400 to 4.0f.
The only respondent was Dr. Tom Blinn who provided a lot of useful
information in the dialog we had. Compaq support however, gets the credit
for resolving this one.
Thank you.
David
mailto:sxdjd_at_ts.sois.alaska.edu
Received on Tue Oct 24 2000 - 22:41:30 NZDT