30 Mar
2003
30 Mar
'03
1:55 p.m.
# I don't think he's going to be able to edit
the file if he can't get the
# machine to boot up because it's waiting for the op to mount the volume.
# I'm guessing he needs to know how to get the machine to boot without
# executing the script that's trying to mount that.
#
# My suggestion would be to search google for how to recover a lost root
# password in VMS, that'll probably point you in the direction you need to
# look to get a DCL prompt without executing startup scripts.
Doh! I actually performed that procedure when I first got my hands on
the VAX a while back. The memory is not what it used to be ;)
Yours isn't the only one! For some reason I didn't think about the fact
you'd not be able to get to a prompt.
Zane
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