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. ------------------------------- 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 [log in to unmask]