5 Apr
2001
5 Apr
'01
8:28 p.m.
Paul Thompson wrote:
You should be able to do a BOOT/R5:00000001 DIA0: and at the SYSBOOT>
prompt do a SET STARTUP_P1 "MIN"
Took for ever for me to get that to work.
SYSBOOT> CONTINUE to get to a minimum
boot prompt to delete stuff. If it asks for a password and you don't know
it you might have to gp back to SYSBOOT> and do the SET UAFALTERNATE 1 or
"TRUE" or whatever it says in the VMS FAQ (going from memory here)
It never got to a password. It complains that a file is bad. Here is a
partial screen capture:
SYSBOOT> SET STARTUP_P1 "MIN"
SYSBOOT> CONTINUE
%SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT Mapping the SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk
%SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT SYSDUMP.DMP on System Disk successfully mapped
OpenVMS (TM) VAX Version V6.2 Major version id = 1 Minor version
id = 0
%DECnet-I-LOADED, network base image loaded, version = 05.08.00
%SYSINIT, primary PAGEFILE.SYS not found; system initialization
continuing
Error opening primary input file SYS$INPUT
Error in file name
(if you do need to crack the SYSTEM password, unlike what is says in the
VMS FAQ I found that you don't need to enter SYSTEM as the password you
can enter whatever you want or blank at the password prompt and then hit
CTRL Z a few times once you've passed the password prompt and you will
get in once that UAFALTERNATE is changed)
I'll look up the VMS faq now. I probably should look through it :-)
Once in to $ you can do a
SET DEF DIA0:[000000]
PURGE/LOG [...]*.log,[...]*.old
to get rid of old file versions that might be left lying around taking up
space
DIRECT/SEL=SIZ=MIN=1000 [...]
to look for large files or whatever
Well, hopefully I'll get this far eventually!
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA