System booting problem after VMS83A_UPDATE-V0400 installation

[Duncan Morris]

Volker,

I have had IDLE 1.1 installed from an early stage,

HP AXPVMS IDLE V1.1 Full LP Install Val 15-MAY-2007

so that is probably why I have had no issues!

Duncan

[NE-Obrien]

Hi All...

Thanks for all your supports. I dont have IDLE V1.1.
Let me try install to IDLE V1.1 and UPDATE patch then see.

Thanks again for all your times,
Arumugam M

[Volker Halle]

Arumugam,

please, wait a minute ...

Please first provide information about your boot problem. Then I'll tell you what the problem is and what needs to be done...

IDLE is a special utility for Alpha emulators and there is no need to install it on REAL Alphas.

Volker.

[NE-Obrien]

Last 4 lines in console while booting by setting flag 0,10000 or 0,30000
=======
%SWAPPER-I-SHUFFLE, executing swapper initialization code.

%SWAPPER-I-SYSDISK, checking status of system disk


%PKA0, copyright (c) 1998 Intraserver technology Inc, PKW V2.1.22 ROM V2.0

%PKA0, scsi chip is SYM53c895, operating mode is LVD Ultra2 SCSI.

=========System hangs here============

[Volker Halle]

Arumugam,

so the system hangs during boot...

There is something wrong with access to the system disk. You may need to force a crash

CTRL-P
>>> CRASH

Then boot from the OpenVMS V8.3 CD and try to have a look at the crashdump on that disk. What's the state of the system disk ?

$$$ ANAL/CRASH disk:[SYSn.SYSEXE]
SDA> SHOW DEV disk:

Volker.

[Volker Halle]

Arumugam,

after printing the message

%SWAPPER-I-SYSDISK, checking status of system disk

the SWAPPER code checks the VALID-bit of the system disk. It will loop endlessly, if the VALID bit is clear.

Once you've opened the dumpfile on the system disk with ANAL/CRASH, use the following command:

SDA> show dev/addr=@exe$gl_sysucb
...
Device status: 88021810 online,valid,...
...

If you don't see the 'valid' string on the Device status line, that's the reason while the system hangs.

Try to find out, if error have been logged during boot:

SDA> CLUE ERRLOG

Was that system disk working before ? What is the config (controller and disk) ?

Volker.