[Info-vax] delay in startup

[JF Mezei]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:

> Interesting theory, but not correct in my case.  Power went off about
> 12:45 and came back about 14:45.

So now you give us a different story...


> just to keep the TOY clock and possibly the console settings.  (JANDER

Ok, so the mention of battery was misleading. You're just talking ahout
the toy clock, not some system that can remain powered on (or memory
kept alive) via batteries.


Of one has a bad TOY battery, then the VMS system may have been asking
for time before proceeding with the boot. And it may have taken you that
long to enter the time. (or perhpaps the propt for time times out after
a couple hours and VMS boots anyways)


> of course, is that JANDER perhaps re-formed the cluster whereas MINNIM 
> re-joined the cluster.

After a power failure, your cluster no longer exists. None, nada. It is
recreated from scratch.

First one to boot will create a new instance of the cluster with quorum
numbers coming from sysgen data. Then other nodes will attempt to join
that cluster.



Is it possible that you have a bad system disk on one node and it took
that long to perform the equivalent of mount/verify of the system disk ?