Tru64 5.1a no longer boot in an old AS4100, help?

[jfdez]

I still manage a few old Alpha Servers 4100, running Tru64 v5.1a, they all work fine till a hardware problem. In one of them I have to change the System Motherboard and the Bridge Module, since that hardware change, the version 5.1a of Tru64 no longer boot, I allready try installing NT 4.0 and an older Tru64 v4.0, and both works fine. The Tru64 v5.1a I have in the hard disks, and also the original installation CDROM, both make and error during the boot process making a "cpu kernel memory fault" and halt the system to prompt. Any suggestion?

[Johan Brusche]

Don't know where you got the replacement parts from, but if in doubt, I would start with checking if they all have the latest firmware loaded. So boot the firmware CD and run the update utility.

Johan.

[Quincey Craig · Accepted solution]

Ifdez,

It is likley that both the firmware is out of rev and that you MUST run the EISA configuration utility even if you have no EISA devices installed.

From the perspective of NVRAM the system board is an EISA device.

Quincey

[Ralf Puchner]

After you have updated the srm and run ecu maybe another problem will occure:

5.1a uses a dynamic hardware database, so if replacing the motherboard and other hardware the database doesn't match the original hardware leading to boot problems.

Try to reboot in single user mode and have a look into the manuals explaining the 5.1A basics...

[jfdez]

Thanks for all the replays, the first thing I do was update the firmware, first to 5.3 an later to 6.0 needed for tru64 5.1a since those spare parts were in a box taking dust since 1999 but the problems persists. Other posibility is running the EISA Configuration Utility as you said, but, where I can find a copy of the ECU floppy?, I don´t have it, any one know where I can find i

[Ralf Puchner]

it is delivered with the machine. And yes it is necessary on every machine with EISA bus and must be run after firmware update.

Be sure you are not using a NT ECU because it is not identical to the UNIX/VMS ECU utility.


So why not reading the docs prior to update the firmware?

[jfdez]

the problems is that I can find the floppy in any place, I search every where and I don´t find it. How can I take a copy??

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

according to an answer at different place from Ralf:
go into console mode (>>>)
type
>>> runecu
or
>>> ecu

greetings,

Michael

[Ralf Puchner]

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_6956.html

Why not simply use the search function on the HP website? If so you will get the answer of your question within seconds....

Seems it is time for a crash course how to use and gather information on the internet....

Btw. if using google you will find different locations and download images. Be sure you are download the VMS/UNIX ECU version and not the NT ECU stuff (so I'm wondering how you have tried Windows NT on a unix configured machine without running the NT/UNIX ECU)

[jfdez]

I´m wondering too how a Microsoft product can boot and a UNIX can´