[Info-vax] DEC 3000/900 bootup problem

[Vance Haemmerle]

SMS wrote:

> Vance Haemmerle wrote:
> 
>>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.  [...]
> 
> 
>    Sounds bad.
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
>    Is it using the same console as you are?  (And what is
> that?)  In some cases the early messages get sent to
> multiple ports, but then it narrows its scope to one, and
> if you're using the wrong one, it looks dead.
> 
>    If it's trying to cluster, does a REPLY /ENABLE
> terminal on another system show any OPCOM messages?

   By console, I just mean the attached keyboard, and local
">>>" display (I'm using it as a Alphastation).  OPA0: on
the VAXstation is the cluster console.  No messages appear there
during boot attempts of the Alpha, I do NOT get to the message
on the Alpha: "waiting to form or join a VMScluster system".
The boot hangs before that message ever appears.

   Booting from a CD-ROM should not have it try to cluster.
I've also done a boot -fl 0,1 and when the SYSBOOT> prompt
comes up I've SET VAXCLUSTER 0.  That does not boot either.

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Vance Haemmerle