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In article <vbk6684@zola.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>In <1993Jan26.014846.1473@kronos.arc.nasa.gov> doctor@tardis.arc.nasa.gov (Terry Fong) writes:
>| I am trying to upgrade an Indigo Elan from R3000 to R4000 and have run
>| into a bit of a problem: when I try to boot the machine (with R4000)
>| installed, I get the following error message:
>| 
>|   Cannot load scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)/sash
>|   Unable to load bootfile: not enough space
>
>Sounds as though you somehow used fx to decrease the size of the
>volume header below the size used by sash and other program in
>the volhdr.
>

Before you start thinking you have a disk problem, let me ask
one question. After you did your upgrade, and you were re-installing
your operating system, did you first set the NEWEROVERIDE flag
to true and force inst to re-install EOE1?

The error message you received is EXACTLY the one I received after
doing the R3K -> R4K and re-installing the software. However,
since IRIX 4.0.5F was already installed, inst left the old
R3K unix kernel on which gives the above error.

I did post a warning to this effect about a month ago and asked
SGI to add this information to the release notes for the upgrade.
IMHO, the problem is INST is semi-smart. It's smart enough to
know that your installation software is at the same release level
as what is already on the disk -- but it's not smart enough to
know that it's the wrong software for your new CPU :)

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