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- From: senseman@lucy.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
- Subject: Re: problem upgrading from R3K to R4K Indigo
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.125048.11873@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Keywords: indigo, R4000, upgrade
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- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
- References: <1993Jan26.014846.1473@kronos.arc.nasa.gov> <vbk6684@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:50:48 GMT
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- In article <vbk6684@zola.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >In <1993Jan26.014846.1473@kronos.arc.nasa.gov> doctor@tardis.arc.nasa.gov (Terry Fong) writes:
- >| I am trying to upgrade an Indigo Elan from R3000 to R4000 and have run
- >| into a bit of a problem: when I try to boot the machine (with R4000)
- >| installed, I get the following error message:
- >|
- >| Cannot load scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)/sash
- >| Unable to load bootfile: not enough space
- >
- >Sounds as though you somehow used fx to decrease the size of the
- >volume header below the size used by sash and other program in
- >the volhdr.
- >
-
- Before you start thinking you have a disk problem, let me ask
- one question. After you did your upgrade, and you were re-installing
- your operating system, did you first set the NEWEROVERIDE flag
- to true and force inst to re-install EOE1?
-
- The error message you received is EXACTLY the one I received after
- doing the R3K -> R4K and re-installing the software. However,
- since IRIX 4.0.5F was already installed, inst left the old
- R3K unix kernel on which gives the above error.
-
- I did post a warning to this effect about a month ago and asked
- SGI to add this information to the release notes for the upgrade.
- IMHO, the problem is INST is semi-smart. It's smart enough to
- know that your installation software is at the same release level
- as what is already on the disk -- but it's not smart enough to
- know that it's the wrong software for your new CPU :)
-
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- David M. Senseman, Ph.D. | Imagine the Creator as a low
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