VMS7.3-2

[maer rice]

I have ES40 2 with 4 667mhz cpu's
I can only boot vms with 1GB of memory in the system.

with 2GB of the same memory or more the system will not boot P00>>>b dka0
open fibre pga0.0.0.3.0
(boot dka0.0.0.2.1 -flags 0)
block 0 of dka0.0.0.2.1 is a valid boot block
reading 1134 blocks from dka0.0.0.2.1

P00>>>b dka0
(boot dka0.0.0.2.1 -flags 0)
block 0 of dka0.0.0.2.1 is a valid boot block
reading 1134 blocks from dka0.0.0.2.1
bootstrap code read in
base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 8dc00(580608)
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 3ff54000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code

*************************************************************
* Exception taken before exception handler has been loaded! *
* Unable to take crash dump! *
*************************************************************

Access control violation through vector 00000080

R00: 00000000 00000000 R01: 00000000 00000800 R02: 00000000 0001F200
R03: 00000080 00002260 R04: 00000000 102B0000 R05: 00000000 00000000
R06: 00000000 00000001 R07: 00000000 10000E00 R08: 00000000 10000E58
R09: 00000000 00000000 R10: 00000000 00000000 R11: 00000000 00000000
R12: 00000008 000000F0 R13: 00000801 A0000000 R14: 00000000 00000000
R15: 00000000 0000FF00 R16: 00000000 10000E00 R17: 3FFFFFFF FFFFFFFC
R18: 00000000 00000000 R19: FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF R20: 3FFFFFFF FFFFFFFE
R21: 3FFFFFFF FFFFFFFF R22: 3FFFFFFF FFFFF800 R23: 00000000 00000800
R24: 00000000 102B0000 R25: 00000000 000007FD R26: 00000000 00000001
R27: 00000000 00000260 R28: FFFFFFFF 80004004 R29: 00000000 200D3F20

R30: 200D3EC0: 00000000 00000001 Saved R02
200D3EC8: 00000001 004AFFFD Saved R03
200D3ED0: 00000000 00015FD0 Saved R04
200D3ED8: 00000000 00016A94 Saved R05
200D3EE0: 00000000 00000000 Saved R06
200D3EE8: 00000000 10000E00 Saved R07
200D3EF0: 00000000 000213D0 Exception PC
200D3EF8: 20000000 00001F00 Exception PS

any help would be gratly appriciated.

[BR765741]

Seen the same with an 8 GB ES40 (FW V7.2).

Changing the console environment variable MEMORY_TEST from PARTIAL to FULL made this message go away and allowed the ES40 to successfully boot from a SAN disk.

Volker.