Steve,

I had a similar problem one time.  The creator of SYSSTART needs to be
manager.sys , someone made a copy of it and it would not execute correctly.

Rich

>>> Steve Hammond <[log in to unmask]> 10/12 4:28 PM >>>
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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