SUMMARY: Can't install 5.1a on ES40

From: McCracken, Denise (Denise.McCracken@misyshealthcare.com)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 19:29:49 EDT

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        Thanks to Ian Barker and Dr. Blinn for coming up with a quick
answer.

        The easiest solution is to set bootdef_dev to "" before the install.
This keeps the installer from picking up the 5.lb configuration and
attempting to use it with 5.1a.

-D

-----Original Message-----
From: McCracken, Denise
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:46 PM
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
Subject: Can't install 5.1a on ES40

        We just bought an ES40 that came preloaded with 5.1b, but we need to
install 5.1a to do some software testing.

        I went through the install and everything went OK until it tried to
reboot. Then I got "Cannot open or read /etc/dfsc.dat Bad status file
device/format". Same message for /etc/dsfl.dat, then it went into
single-user mode.

        When I did "hwmgr -show scsi", it came up with the four 9-gb disks
that we have, but no device paths to them.

        Do I need to install a NHD kit or something to support the hardware?

thanks

-Denise

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