I am trying to salvage a nice Apollo DN5500 server. Unfortunately I had to swap the
original Maxtor ESDI 760 HD - it makes a clunky noise - for a lower capacity Micropolis
and I have some difficulties to reinstall DomainOS software.
The system starts under service mode. It can read a bootable tape and install the mini
DomainOS software but it cannot boot DomainOS directly from the hard disk ... it dies with
an "Error: sysboot not found"
What I've done ...
in service mode, with a 10.3.4 boot tape inserted,
re
di c
ex config, ex calendar, ex invol ... to enter the new hd configuration, setup date/time
and format hd then ...
ex domain_os ... does a lot of shoeshinning, copy base OS from tape to hd and says that
sysboot is found and skipped ...
) go ... goes to HP logo and login or ) sh runs a
text shell ... I was delighted ... but now if I shutdown and reboot the system in normal
mode, it passes the tests ok but fails to start the base OS complaining about
"sysboot not found". Same result in service mode if I do a > re and > ex
domain_os.
Considering that it boots fine from a tape, I assume that the sysboot is not a eprom
program and that it has been erased by formatting the drive. Does anybody know how to
install the sysboot. Does it have anything to do with the 40KB file copied from the tape
to //nodeXXX/sysboot on the hard disk?
Kind regards,
Aro