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- Subject: Re: Bypassing missing F11BXQP on startup ?
- Message-ID: <9212290827.AA18530@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 19:35:09 GMT
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- Organization: The Internet
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- V. Phaniraj writes:
-
- >Hi
- >
- >After the VMS 5.5-2 upgrade, we've notivced some missing files.
- >For ex., SUBMIT.EXE was missing from SYS$SYSTEM. Today I did
- >a standalone backup and restore of the system disk, and it appears
- >that F11BXQP.EXE is also missing. The system startup fails with the
- >error
- >
- >SYSINIT-E Error mounting system device, status=07280b4
- >SYSINIT-E Error opening or mapping F11BXQP, status = 00018272.
- >
- >I don't want to go to an older backup just yet, so are there any ways
- >around this ? I have a recent standalone backup created with
- >STABACKIT on another disk, could this be used along with backup/noinit
- >to be of some use ? Xmas day is a bad day to get into such a mess :-)
- >
- >Dr V. Phaniraj phaniraj@plains.nodak.edu (701) 298-1024
- >--
- >V. Phaniraj phaniraj@plains.NoDak.edu
- >Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering phaniraj@ndsuvm1 (BITNET)
- >North Dakota State University, Fargo ND 58105 (701) 298-1024 (work)
- > (701) 237-8677 (FAX)
-
- i haven't a clue as to why SUBMIT.EXE went missing. However, i can
- help you with the F11BXQP problem.
-
- First of all, F11BXPQ isn't missing. If you translate those hex
- error messages to the error text you find that:
-
- write sys$output f$message(%x07280b4)
- %MOUNT-F-VOLALRMNT, another volume of same label already mounted
-
- write sys$output f$message(%x00018272)
- %RMS-E-DNR, device not ready, not mounted, or unavailable
-
- the first error message tells you that the system disk could
- not be mounted on boot because there was another volume
- mounted /system with the same volume label. The second error
- message indicates that, since the system disk was not mounted,
- F11BXQP could not be mapped. You cannot get along without that
- image, it's the key to decoding the file structure on the disk.
-
- We had the same problem a couple of days ago...What we did to
- get the same error was back up and restore the system disk
- of a fileserver node in the cluster and rebooting without bringing
- all the satellite nodes that boot off that disk down. The
- satellite nodes have the system disk mounted /system preventing
- the server node from mounting it /system. This ordinarily
- doesn't happen; you can rebot the server node without bringing
- down the satellites and there is no problem. However by restoring
- the system disk, the server sees it as a new volume, not the original
- one that was in the drive.
-
- so, bring down the satellites, boot the server, then bring up each
- satellite node. hope this helps.
-
-