Re: problem upgrading from R3K to R4K Indigo

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From: Terry Fong
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:23

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My sincere thanks to everyone who responded to my posting! The
solution to the problem was given by David Senseman, who it turns out
suffered the same difficulty a few weeks back. In short, since my
system *already* had IRIX 4.0.5F installed when I swapped the CPU
boards, inst was not smart enough to know it had to replace the R3000
kernal with one for R4000. David's solution (see below) is to use "set
neweroverride" to force inst to make the correct changes.

> 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 :)

Thanks David!

-Terry

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