From: ODC (odc-public@hotpop.com)
Date: Fri Oct 31 2003 - 18:36:24 EST
Hi,
I was doing some patching on an AlphaServer with the CD's that HP ...
Compaq had sent me and all seemed to progress properly until the system
restarted.
It reports a vfs_mountroot panic, and that it cannot find the root
filesystem. It then proceeds to do a memory dump, and restarts (and we
have an infinite cycle of restarts).
I think the problem, occured when it asked me to reconfigure the kernel
(I have no idea what I'm doing in Tru64) and I'm assuming dupatch knew
what it was (cause I didn't) and I let it reconfigure the kernel. I'm
guessing something had not properly been defined in the kernel and now
it can't mount or find the root filesystem.
It is an Alpha Server ES45, 5 disk scsi array, no raid.
I believe its V5.1. A uname -a returns V5.1, but when I was patching in
the V5.1 directory, it said that the version was incorrect and that I
should be using V5.1A (???).
Thank you.
ps. Are there any smaller workstations that I can auction or find
locally that will run the Tru64 OS for learning purposes ? (So that I
don't feel so damn uncomfortable dealing with it). Cheap would be the
keyword ...
Thanks again.
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