15 Oct
1999
15 Oct
'99
4:09 p.m.
sms(a)antinode.org wrote:
The b/1 dkb0 boot command; I'm looking at this fro from a Unix point of view
;-})
Thanks!!
Stan
<<snip>>
3) When I try
to boot from the external RZ55 I got with it, VMS 5.5.2
comes up and hangs (solid) after displaying:
%TMSCPLOAD-I-LOADTMSCP, loading the TMSCP tape server
This happens even trying to boot to VMS's
single user mode, and
with or without a TK50Z attached...
What's "VMS's single user mode"?
Whether the tape drive is connected should not affect this, agreeing
with your observation.
I suspect that it is trying to form or join a cluster, and, as its
old cluster pals are all missing, it's unable to get a quorum. You need
Hmmm.... I've seen a MV3400 boot looking for a cluster, but it just timed out
when it could find one, and continued to boot...
to do a conversational boot, and set the SYSGEN
parameters VOTES and
EXPECTED_VOTES both to 1 (so it won't expect to find anyone else), or
else VAXCLUSTER to 0, so it won't do any cluster stuff.
The procedure's probably in the FAQ,
""ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/dec-faq/vms"", but something like
the
following might be close:
I'll try this....
>> B/1
[device, if necessary]
SYSBOOT> SHOW VOTES \
SYSBOOT> SHOW EXPECTED_VOTES /[If you're curious.]
SYSBOOT> SET VOTES 1
SYSBOOT> SET EXPECTED_VOTES 1
SYSBOOT> WRITE CURRENT
SYSBOOT> CONTINUE