topic Re: Boot off an EVA5000 in Operating System - OpenVMS

Boot off an EVA5000

Robert Brothers — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:04:09 GMT

Trying to boot VMS 7.3-2 from cd to do a new build, the console sees it "$1$dga800" but when I boot VMS from the cd it does not. Any thoughts??

Re: Boot off an EVA5000

Jan van den Ende — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:14:35 GMT

Rob,

a know issue.

Virgin 7.3-2 does not support EVA devices.
So, it is a chicken-and-egg story, but here there IS an escape.
Boot and 8.2 CD, exit to $$$, mount the 7.3-2 CD, and install from there.
Apply the necessary patches (included in UPGRADE_V002, but you will do better with the latest upgrade), and now you can boot a version that supports EVA.

hth

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

Re: Boot off an EVA5000

Andy Bustamante — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:19:36 GMT

Another option is to install VMS to a supported device, such as scsi or HSG for example, load ECOs and then use backup to move the system drive to the EVA. This being OpenVMS, you could even install to scratch drive on a testing server, create a tape backup and restore on the final platform.

Andy

Re: Boot off an EVA5000

Robert Brothers — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:19:50 GMT

After I mount the 7.3-2 CD what then?

Re: Boot off an EVA5000

Jan van den Ende — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:10:14 GMT

Rob,

"After I mount the 7.3-2 CD what then? "

Eh, I never had to do that.
I guess
PROD INSTAL OPENVMS/SOURCE=..

Can anyone who KNOWS exactly please step in?
And I dod not even think of Andy's suggestions, (though I DID do similar things quite a lot, some 15 years ago!) but those are also very workable!

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

Re: Boot off an EVA5000

Volker Halle — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:50:12 GMT

Rob,

I would suggest to install V7.3-2 onto a local disk first, apply the most recent patches and then copy that local disk to the EVA new system disk (after booting from the V8.2 CD).

Volker.

Re: Boot off an EVA5000

Volker Halle — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 01:00:16 GMT

Jan,

Virgin 7.3-2 does not support EVA devices

I remember having used a V7.3-2 CD to copy a local disk to a fibre chanel disk. Whether this works, mainly depends on the Fibre Channel Adapters present in the Alpha system. Some of these adapters are not supported with 'virgin' V7.3-2.

If you boot from the CD and don't see PGA and FGA devices, then the system can't configure your Fibre Channel adapter (KGPSA-xx) and you can't see your EVA disks.

Volker.