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тАО06-18-2007 09:25 AM
тАО06-18-2007 09:25 AM
OpenVMS Alpha 7.3-2 to 8.3 Upgrade
1. Boot from 8.3 distribution disk
2. Backup system disk to spare disk
3. Upgrade system disk
4. Use the new menu item to apply patches stored on a spare disk to newly upgraded system disk.
5. Booted from upgraded and patched system disk, allowing Autogen to run and reboot.
I expected to see the announcement "OpenVMS 8.3" when the system first mounted the system disk, but instead I saw:
OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version XB9P-N20
Copyright 1976-2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
And, after going through the Autogen and reboot cycle, the version did not change. I diligently reviewed the console logs, and found no errors or warnings. Knowing that some software checks the OpenVMS version, I started over, doing the normal sequence:
1. Boot from distribution disk
2. Restore system disk from backup copy
3. Upgrade system disk to 8.3
4. Boot from system disk, allow Autogen to run and reboot
5. Apply patches (Update V3, ACMELDAP V2, ACRTL V2, Driver V1, Sys V1, PASRTL V1, Mount96 V1, Fibre-SCSI V1) and reboot.
It is not really that big a deal, but my attempts to save a reboot in the upgrade process failed. Given that we have limited time when we perform this upgrade to the production cluster, saving one reboot cycle can help. Anyone have an idea as to why my first sequence failed?
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тАО06-18-2007 09:41 AM
тАО06-18-2007 09:41 AM
Re: OpenVMS Alpha 7.3-2 to 8.3 Upgrade
My first reaction would be someone
did an oops. XB9P, that is the HP engineering resd name the kit was built
on most likely (resd = result disk of a vms OS build) I havn't upgraded a machine in
a few years but I remember seeing the x type
version name in the process up upgrading. so you might want keep the extra reboot in your plans, they usually don't take that
long. Dean
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тАО06-18-2007 05:55 PM
тАО06-18-2007 05:55 PM
Re: OpenVMS Alpha 7.3-2 to 8.3 Upgrade
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тАО06-18-2007 06:13 PM
тАО06-18-2007 06:13 PM
Re: OpenVMS Alpha 7.3-2 to 8.3 Upgrade
I have a similar expirience.
I upgraded my first machine from OpenVMS 7.3-2 to 8.3. I also copied the distribution CD to a spare disk and then I did the upgrade from this disk. But I did a reboot after upgrading to 8.3
After this I used a commandfile to apply the patches, this because I have to upgrade many systems and I will apply all patches in same order. My commandfile looked similar to this:
$ define/user sys$input sys$command
$ product install patch
$ define/user ........
When I installed the SYS100 patch I finally got the SYSVER> prompt.
A show system/noproc showed also the Version XB9P-N20.
In my case I think the problem was the define/user within my commandfile.
It's possible to fix this the following way:
$SET DEF SYS$COMMON:[SYS$LDR]
$RUN SYSVER
SYSVERSION> REPLACE V8.3
SYSVERSION> WRITE
SYSVERSION> EXIT
$
$ REBOOT
I'm not sure if that is a good way, so I used a backup of my 7.3-2 systemdisk, did the upgrade again to 8.3 and the I executed the patches interactive. This time everything went well and my system showed the version 8.3
regards
Geni
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тАО05-08-2008 09:19 AM
тАО05-08-2008 09:19 AM
Re: OpenVMS Alpha 7.3-2 to 8.3 Upgrade
I went ahead and ran SYSVER to update the version string, and opened a case with OpenVMS Support. The answer is that (1) they have seen this problem several times as users make use of the ability to install patch kits while booted from the installation CD, and (2) the problem really is some difficulty in the installation process running SYSVER to update sys$base_image.exe while booted from the installation CD. They are looking for a solution.
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тАО05-08-2008 12:14 PM
тАО05-08-2008 12:14 PM
Re: OpenVMS Alpha 7.3-2 to 8.3 Upgrade
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тАО05-12-2008 10:17 AM
тАО05-12-2008 10:17 AM