controller replacement with existing hard drives problem

[mattyboy]

customer mxe II controller was upgraded to rel 8 sp3 from rel 6.2  6 months ago and had been working fine, the layer 2 switch developed the problem where after 15 minutes the Lan connection would fail couldn't ping controller and all phones lost connection.  we replaced the controller moved the I-button and harddrives  the system booted up but to the older rel 6.2   does the upgrade live on another partition? is there a way to set it to boot up on the rel.8 partition    do i need to change the boot string in the maint port or can I use the swap command from the maint commands in the esm?

any thoughts or input would be much appreciated

Thanks

[sarond]

Both options should work.

I would just try the SWAP commands.

If you click on the 'About' link top right of ESM it should tell you what is on the inactive load/partition

[mattyboy]

Thanks

what are the two partions 1  and 2 if i have to edit the command line in vxworks?   does the swap command from the maint commands in esm does that edit the boot string so it will stay there even after a reboot?

[sarond]

Yes it should change it for you.

I think its Partition 1 and 4

[johnp]

Alway a good idea to check which partition is used when you move drives to another system.