If I'm not mistaken, the system runs the UPDATE portion following an update.
It should know this was done because the system maintains the last boot
information.  I suspect that if you do another START NORECOVERY now
(following your last START), you should see the COOLSTART executed.

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Gary L. Paveza, Jr.
Technical Support Specialist
All opinions are mine and not those of my employer


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Steve Hammond [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
        Sent:   Tuesday, October 12, 1999 4:29 PM
        To:     [log in to unmask]
        Subject:        System restart question

        I installed a patch on my 987 over the weekend (MPE5.5, PP6).

        I did the typical UPDATE followed by a START NORECOVERY. Everything
        went as I expected.

        But when I brought the system back up, I noticed that only the
STARTUP
        module of the SYSSTART.PUB.SYS had executed. Checking the
        documentation ("System Startup, Configuration, and Shutdown
Reference
         Manual" - both hard copy and CD-Rom versions; page 3-16 of the hard
         copy), states that ANY reboot will execute the STARTUP module of
         SYSSTART and a START NORECOVERY will execute the COOLSTART
         module. Well, the COOLSTART module did not execute because it is
        supposed to stream a job that starts up networking, etc., which I
know
        did not stream.

        Any ideas?

        I can say that the one problem I found was that SYSSTART was on LDEV
        2 instead of LDEV 1 (as noted in the documentation pg 3-16). But to
me,
        if that were a real problem, then SYSSTART would not have run. If
MPE
        can find SYSSTART to do the STARTUP even if it is not on LDEV1, then
        it should find a subsequent module in the same file. (I have moved
        it to LDEV1.)

        thx
        steve hammond
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