From: CRDGW2::CRDGW2::MRGATE::"SMTP::CRVAX.SRI.COM::RELAY-INFO-VAX" 20-APR-1989 16:25 To: MRGATE::"ARISIA::EVERHART" Subj: Gotcha in upgrading 8550 to V5.x Message-Id: <8904201953.AA23961@crdgw1.ge.com> Received: From KL.SRI.COM by CRVAX.SRI.COM with TCP; Thu, 20 APR 89 11:58:38 PDT Received: from CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU by KL.SRI.COM with TCP; Thu, 20 Apr 89 11:33:32 PDT Received: from IRLEARN.BITNET by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with BSMTP id 5326; Thu, 20 Apr 89 14:33:33 EDT Received: from ccvax.ucd.ie by IRLEARN.BITNET (Mailer X1.24) with BSMTP id 0109; Thu, 20 Apr 89 15:31:08 GMT Received: from vms.eurokom.ucd.ie by ccvax.ucd.ie; Thu, 20 Apr 89 15:26 GMT Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 16:26 CET From: "Eoin Meehan, EuroKom" Subject: Gotcha in upgrading 8550 to V5.x To: info-vax@kl.sri.com X-Vms-To: in%"info-vax@kl.sri.com" Path: kom!emeehan From: emeehan@vms.eurokom.ie (Eoin Meehan, EuroKom) Newsgroups: info-vax Subject: Gotcha in upgrading 8550 to V5.x Message-ID: <102@vms.eurokom.ie> Date: 20 Apr 89 16:26:01 GMT Organization: EuroKom Conferencing Service Lines: 40 -- Hello Info-vaxers, Here's a bad gotcha for 8550 users upgrading to V5.x We followed the installation manual when it said edit the DEFBOO.CMD and the BDAGEN.CMD files to boot to the SYSF tree (or words to that effect) It also said set AUTO BOOT ON and AUTO RESTART ON We put B/R5:F0000000 in the DEFBOO.CMD and B/R5:F0000001 in the BDAGEN.CMD Set AUTO BOOT ON and AUTO RESTART ON So the VAX starts its upgrade and waltzes into the first reboot - and boots up as V4.7 and stops. ... Scratch head time ... It transpires that DEFBOO.CMD calls BDABOO.CMD which kindly executes the line DEPOSIT R5 0 :-) just in case you felt like booting from another system. So edit and reboot. And guess what? Still V4.7 AUTO RESTART was ON so it was executing RESTAR.CMD , which, again very kindly DEPOSITs R5 0 :-/ So we edited all those files and it finally worked. Cheers, Eoin. ---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------- Eoin Meehan, | Internet: emeehan@vms.eurokom.ie VMS System Manager, | EARN/Bitnet:emeehan@vms.eurokom.ie EuroKom, | uucp: emeehan%vms.eurokom.ie@euroies.uucp University College Dublin,| EuroKom: eoin_meehan@eurokom.ie Dublin 4, | Janet: emeehan%vms.eurokom.ie@uk.ac.earn-relay Ireland. | PSImail: PSI%027243159000637::EMEEHAN ---------------------------+ "Why is there only one | Phone: +353.1.697890 Monopolies Commission?" | Telex: (0500) 91178 UCD EI ---------------------------+---------------------------------------------------