[Info-vax] VMS84*_UPDATE

[Simon Clubley]

On 2011-02-28, Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER <peter at langstoeger.at> wrote:
>
> DESCRIPTION
> A new version of Alpha Primary Bootstrap file (APB.EXE) is included in
> VMS84A_UPDATE-V0400, update kit for Alpha. The installation procedure
> for the above kit replaces the APB.EXE on the target disk but does not
> update the target disk.s boot block to point to the new version of
> OpenVMS Alpha primary bootstrap file. This may lead to boot failure or
> boot of the system with an earlier version of APB.EXE on an Alpha
> system.
>
> Boot Block on an ALPHA system disk points to OpenVMS Alpha primary
> bootstrap file (APB.EXE). If the primary bootstrap file is replaced with
> a newer version, the Boot Block has to be re-written to point to the new
> version of primary bootstrap file (APB.EXE). VMS84A_UPDATE-V0400
> replaces APB.EXE but does not update the Boot Block, resulting in boot
> failure or using an earlier version of APB.EXE to boot the system.
>

Oh for goodness sake. :-(

If they are _still_ making these basic errors, then how can we have any
confidence in the rest of the code the new VMS Engineering team is writing ?

Absolutely unbelievable.

Simon.

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