install OVMS on ia64.

[antonio elder prado]

Hi,

I have a rx2600 that has two disks. One disk has hpux and on the other I would like to install ovms 7.3.
Anybody has done something similar. Is there any special trick ? Do you know where I can get some procedure to achieve this install. I believe you cannot have both oses running at the same time; but I will be happy if I can have hpux and shutdown boot out of efi into ovms. thank you all for your help.

[Dale A. Marcy]

I believe you will have to obtain a copy of VMS V8.1 (I think that is the latest available, I do not work with any IA64 systems yet). VMS V7.3 will not support the IA64 systems to my knowledge. You can go to this link to learn about the V8.1 release:

http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/alpha_retaintrust/openvms/

[antonio elder prado]

more info. I made a mistake the ovms o.s. that I have is 8.1. however I still cannot load the os. when I boot out of efi and select fs0: for the cd, there is vms directory but not load.efi or similar file.
do yo uknow what file am I supposed to load. I did try also load dvd cd from efi and does not find a bootable .
thank you
./antonio/.

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Hi,

did you check the 8.1 release notes at

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/os81_index.html

Greetings,Martin

[Åge Rønning · Accepted solution]

8.2 release will have the vms_loader.efi file in the vms directory, But the V8.1 CD is booted the following way:

Shell> fs0:
fs0:\> cd efi\vms
fs0:\efi\boot> dir
Directory of: fs0:\efi\boot

12/04/03 06:21a 2,048 .
12/04/03 06:21a 2,048 ..
12/04/03 06:21a 1,609,728 ipb.exe
12/04/03 06:21a 334,848 bootia64.efi
2 File(s) 1,944,576 bytes
2 Dir(s)


fs0:\efi\boot> bootia64.efi


HP OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 Evaluation Release V8.1

© Copyright 1976-2003 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.


Installing required known files...
etc. etc..

[antonio elder prado]

Hi all,
me again..., of course I didn't solve , yet!

when I boot from the cd using efi:/fs0:/boot with bootia64 I receive the following messages:
BUG CHECK ****
Bugcheck code 000019D INCONSTATE, inconsistent I/O database
crash cpu:00 primary cpu: 00
Activte cpus: 0001
No current process defined in cpu db...

and then goes and reboot all over again.

I did check my firmware:

and from MP > sysrev

MP FW E.02.10
BMC FW: 01.30
EFI FW: 01.22
System FW: 01.61

do I need to upgrade the firmware ? the release notes says 2.10 (I have some 2.10 by I do not know which one supposed to be the dam#%$#$# 2.10).

oh, yes. I do not have hp support. We are in budget constraints. ... and am using you guys as my gurus. thank you in advance.

Thank you Dale, Martin, and Age .

[Martin Vorlaender]

>>>
I did check my firmware:

and from MP > sysrev

MP FW E.02.10
BMC FW: 01.30
EFI FW: 01.22
System FW: 01.61

do I need to upgrade the firmware ? the release notes says 2.10 (I have some 2.10 by I do not know which one supposed to be the dam#%$#$# 2.10).
<<<

The release notes state (on page 13) that the minimum required system and MP console firmware versions are both 2.20. There you'll also find instructions on where to get the updates.

cu,
Martin

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Hi,

yup, you do need a higher FW revision. This should be available via

http://www.hp.com/support/itaniumservers

As far as I can tell current versions are 2.29 and E2.31.

Greetings, Martin