[Info-vax] Need some special help changing the system password

[Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez]

Thanks to all of you who have replied for your help.

First of all:  I managed to do the system startup,
run authorize and change the system password.  I suspect
that the first time around I mistyped "OPA0:" and
corrected it using backspace, which ended up looking
right on the screen, but not in the parsed string.
So, those of you that started talking about typing errors
had it right.  But also, thanks for the UAFALTERNATE method;
it is mentioned in the FAQ but not explained.

I am using a cable that I wired eons ago, using the
same connections as in the bcc08 cable.  This has always
worked fine, except for the fact that when DTR is
dropped, the VS2000 halts; as far as I know,
this is normal.  Perhaps one day I'll wire DSR back
into DTR; if the VS2000 keeps DSR up, I'll be able
to turn the terminal off without having the VS2000 halt.

Now I have, however, another question:  I think that after
several tries in the conversational boot, I mixed the
order of the SET WRITESYSPARAMS 0 command and the
SET/STARTUP OPA0: command; as a result, now when I boot
with
   b dka3
I get dumped to a $ prompt and I have to issue the
@SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP command manually.  So, how do
I change this back? Do I boot conversationally
and type
   SET/STARTUP SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP
   CONTINUE

Do I need quotes or something?  What is the kosher
form of the string here? ( I had done SHOW /STARTUP but
forgot to write the exact result before, argh...)

Carlos.