Upgrading OpenVMS.

[Aleksander Šinigoj]

Try to upgrade your Alpha firmware first. Boot your Alpha with the 
firmware update CD and follow the instructions. The firmware update is 
part of the VMS distribution.

Aleksander Sinigoj

kenl at genyc.com wrote:

>Hello out there!
>
>I appologize for putting this question out on this forum, I am running out of 
>places to go.  Maybe, just maybe someone out there may have some input on this.
>
>I am trying to upgrade a Alpha Workstation 433au from 7.2.2 of OpenVMS to 7.3-1 
>of OpenVMS.
>
>Each attempt has failed to upgrade and changing the PQL_ parameters does not 
>seem to help.
>
>I get to about 40% of the upgrade and I get this message
>
>...40% complete.
>
>%PCSI-I-PRCOUTPUT, output from subprocess follows...
>%SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=00, virtual 
>address=000000004B5C2342,
> PC=0000000033DE4,PS=0000001B
>
>%PCSI-E-MODREPLERR, error replacing module ANALYZE in library 
>DISK$AXPVMSSYS:[VMS$COMMON.][SYSLIB]DCLTABLES.EXE
>
>-SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=!XB, virtualaddress=!XH PC=!XH, 
>PS=!XL
>%PCSI-E-OPENFAILED, operation failed.
>
>
>
>Interesting, I get the same message when I try a clean install.
>
>I increased the PQL_MPGFLQUOTA, PQL_MENQLM, PQL_MBYTLM  and all they did was 
>eliminate insufficient virtually memory.
>
>If anyone has some insight on this, that would be appreciated.  Also, I did log 
>a call with Digital/HP and no luck resolving this.  This is making for a long 
>holiday season.
>
>Kenneth Lang
>
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