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- From: doctor@tardis.arc.nasa.gov (Terry Fong)
- Subject: Re: problem upgrading from R3K to R4K Indigo
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.182342.17669@kronos.arc.nasa.gov>
- Followup-To: Re: problem upgrading from R3K to R4K Indigo
- Keywords: R4000, indigo
- Sender: usenet@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Will Edgington, wedgingt@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov)
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- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:23:42 GMT
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- My sincere thanks to everyone who responded to my posting! The
- solution to the problem was given by David Senseman, who it turns out
- suffered the same difficulty a few weeks back. In short, since my
- system *already* had IRIX 4.0.5F installed when I swapped the CPU
- boards, inst was not smart enough to know it had to replace the R3000
- kernal with one for R4000. David's solution (see below) is to use "set
- neweroverride" to force inst to make the correct changes.
-
- > 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 :)
-
- Thanks David!
-
- -Terry
-
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