12 Jun
2015
12 Jun
'15
7:36 a.m.
On Jun 12, 2015, at 04:01, Peter Coghlan <cctalk at
beyondthepale.ie> wrote:
If the machine just sits there indefinately after loading the MSCP disk server,
you probably don't have enough cluster votes to proceed and the best thing to
do is perform a conversational boot which usually involves setting the least
significant bit of register R5 to 1 before booting. How exactly to do this
varies from processor to processor and I don't know how to do it for an 11/730.
When you manage to do this and try booting again, you should get a
"SYSBOOT>"
prompt and you could:
SHOW VAXCLUSTER
SHOW VOTES
SHOW EXPECTED_VOTES
SET VAXCLUSTER 0
SET WRITESYSPARAMS 0
CONTINUE
to confirm that the issue is with cluster votes, turn off clustering and
proceed with the boot process.
Thanks, that works! I also turned off write lock, which makes it happier.
Wow, that boot sure takes forever. What the heck is it *doing* for all of that time? :)
And at the moment, it's still booting, as I sip my morning coffee. Just started
printing like heck and beeping... Ah, it's printing all of the licenses that have
terminated. Maybe I should have lied about the date? Looks like the hostname is PIKE. Sure
glad my iPhone boots more quietly.
VMS use not authorized on this node. I sure hope it won't enforce that before I can
try a backup!
Finally! A login prompt! And no clue about the passwords. Uh, how can I shut this beast
down without a valid login? !?
Great. :)
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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