The problem is solved by using the second method as described below
by James Sainsbury. It worked fine.
Thanks to all of you those who have replied, especially Nik Tarasyuk
and James Sainsbury. - Tapan
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:37:44 +1000 (EST)
From: James Sainsbury <sainsb_j_at_chem.usyd.edu.au>
To: "Tapan K. Nayak" <nayak_at_veccal.ernet.in>
Subject: Re: Booting of AlphaStation 500/333
Try booting your generic kernel first.
>>> boot dka0 -fl s -fi genvmunix
(assuming dka0 is your boot disk otherwise dka100 dka200 etc )
and copy the kernel from /sys/KERNEL/vmunix (as below.)
else from your install CD get to your shell
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV rz0
# if rz0 is your boot disk. Use rz1 etc if different
fsck -p /dev/rz0a
mount /dev/rz0a /mnt
cd /mnt/sys/KERNEL
cp vmunix /
cd /
umount /mnt
# where KERNEL is the name of your kernel usually the hostname.
reboot
RGDS
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Tapan K. Nayak wrote:
> Dear Managers,
>
> I've a 4.0d AlphaStation 500/333 which used to work quite fine.
> By mistake the vmunix file from root area got moved to an user
> area. After that it was also working till the machine got rebooted
> today. Now it doesn't boot because vmunix is absent. After boot
> command it looks for vmunix and doesn't do anything.
>
> I've the digital unix v4.0D CDs and other cds which came with
> the machine in 1997. I mounted the cd (Volume 1) and started
> rebooting by issuing the command
> >>> boot dka400.4.0.9.0
> and it takes me to setup mode to upgrade. I don't want to do that
> since it'll reformat and I may loose all the files in disks.
>
> I can goto console mode from setup menu. In the /dev area it
> doesn't show any disk which belongs to the machine. If I
> can mount the machine internal disks then I cancopy the vmunix and
> it will boot next time. But I cann't mount any disk.
>
> Please advice how to recover this type of problem and get
> the machine back in running.
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> Best regards,
> Tapan Nayak
>
>
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