[Info-vax] DEC 3000/900 bootup problem

[Vance Haemmerle]

   Today my DEC 3000/900 developed a problem.
It was in a cluster with a VAXstation and was
booted out of the cluster, both had been up for
42 days, it appeared to have hung.  Now the DEC 3000/900
cannot boot.  Here are the symptoms...

Whether booting from the system disk, an internal
RRD45 or a newly connected RRD43 (just in case it was
a disk or cd-rom problem) after all the inits and
book checks pass and the

OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version 7.1-2

message appears and a few more disk activities occur
(drive or CD-ROM) the bootup appears to hang.


Details and things I've tried:

All power-on tests are OK
All console tests pass
The number on the console display is normal ("90").
A boot from the V7.1-2 and V7.2-2 CD-ROMs hang
soon after the OS version string.
Conversational boots with "MIN", USE DEFAULT and SET/STARTUP OPA0:
all hang.
The system also has a drive with Tru64 Unix V4.0F on it
but it boots all the way up and runs!

Any ideas of what to try or what it might be and why it only
affects VMS bootup?  I assume something in the autoconfigure
is going bad.

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Vance Haemmerle