Shawn,

the system does not know anything on it's config any longer if there is no
CONFIG group.
UPDATE CONFIG will not help if the REAL alternate BOOT PATH is not the same as
the STANDARD alternate BOOT PATH in CONFG925.
Either you change this H/W connection of the tape to the default one, or only an
INSTALL will help.

But probably somebody else will have a smoother solution. Good Luck, Andreas
Schmidt, CSC, Germany






[log in to unmask] on 03/22/2000 06:45:43 PM

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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