Shawn,

Are you absolutely sure you have the correct alternate boot path?

Is it a SCSI drive? A 925 cannot boot from a SCSI drive.

Have you tried START NORECOVERY SINGLE-DISK SINGLE-USER?

What do you mean by "can't logon" and "can't run CI"?

Doug.

Doug Werth                             Beechglen Development Inc.
[log in to unmask]                               Cincinnati, Ohio


----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn Gordon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 12:45 PM
Subject: serious system troubles on 925


> Some of you might recall that I had stupidly purged the [log in to unmask] groups
on
> my 925.  This allowed the system to boot, but it displays many warnings
and
> can't run the CI or logon, so it's effectively dead.
>
> I went to my 957 and made an SLT tape from the CONFG925 group and
inserted
> it into the 925 and booted the system.  I figured I would do an UPDATE
> CONFIG based on the information I got from this list.  I told the system
to
> boot from the alternate boot path and I immediatly got the following:
>
> Booting.
>
> Boot path failed.
> -Error in IODC ENTRY_IO call.
>
> STATUS returned from IODC = -4
>
> INFORMATION returned from IODC:
>
> then a 4 by 8 grid of hex numbers displays and I get the "Enter boot
path,
> command, or ?> " and it eventually starts to autoboot from the primary
path.
>
> HELP!
>
> Thanks,
> shawn