VMS newbie with sick VAXstation - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Oct 2012

Message: 26
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:31:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: VMS newbie with sick VAXstation
Message-ID: <201210221331.q9MDVxS117432808 at floodgap.com>
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...
  Wish I'd known you were after MMJ stuff,
could've made you some! Postage
 from the UK wouldn't have been prohibitive :) 
...

%SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT Mapping the SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk
 %SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT SYSDUMP.DMP on System Disk successfully mapped
 %SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT Mapping PAGEFILE.SYS on the System Disk
 %SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT SAVEDUMP parameter not set to protect the PAGEFILE.SYS
    OpenVMS (TM) VAX Version V7.2     Major version id = 1 Minor versio [cut]
 %DECnet-I-LOADED, network base image loaded, version = 05.0D.00

 %DECnet-W-NOOPEN, could not open SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]NET$CONFIG.DAT  
 Bizarre, even missing DECnet/OSI configs (which is what that error points
 to) shouldn't cause a crash.

 Time for a conversational boot. At the dead sergeant prompt (>>>) do B/1

 You'll get a SYSBOOT> prompt. Type 'set startup_p1 "min"' then C
to
 continue. This will at least get you running. Once logged in do 'product
 show product' and give us the output. DECnet is obviously not happy. 

Thanks for the tips. I'll give this a spin this evening after work.
I was puzzling over the bits I needed from the URL Jonathan provided. 
Couldn't this be a symptom of a redefined SYS$SYSROOT: pointing somewhere else 
other than DKA0: (such as an external expansion pack)?
In any case, if your VS isn't running a new version of UCX or MultiNet/TCPware go
ahead
and get TCPware or Multinet, as the version of UCX that came with 7.2 would bring the
machine to a crawl under light network load.