Problem
BELOW IS TO BE CONFIRMED: in which situation do we have to perform these operations ?
Systems running Tru64 V4.0x on Charon-AXP V4.7 Build 171-xx could fail to boot with "panic (cpu 0): System does not have a console configured" message when upgraded to Charon-AXP V4.9 before Build 194-08 (patch).
Example:
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Solution
BELOW IS TO BE CONFIRMED: does 194-08 solve the problem ?
If patch 194-08 cannot be installed immediately, boot with genvmunix and update the kernel configuration file as described below:
P00>>>boot dka0 -file genvmunix |
Switch to multi-user if necessary by pressing CTRL-D and locate the configuration file (examples given below assume the configuration name is AXP001):
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In the example below, given for an AlphaServer 4100, we can see the controller ace0 has an invalid slot number for pci0 (eisa0) according to the Placement of peripheral devices on PCI bus for AlphaServer4100 (8 PCI slots) table (slot 4 belongs to pci1):
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BELOW IS TO BE CONFIRMED: any valid slot number can be used or the highest free one ?
We'll replace then slot 4 by a free slot in pci0 to correct this (according to the table mentioned above, slot 8 is free):
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so the result will be:
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The kernel can now be rebuilt, replaced and the system can be rebooted:
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Example
Click here to see attached document.
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Placement of peripheral devices on PCI bus (CHARON-AXP V4.9 for Windows)
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