[Info-vax] Issue with booting and/or seeing the SYSBOOT prompt

[John Tran]

On Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 12:19:56 PM UTC-3, Richard Brodie wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 October 2021 at 13:27:55 UTC+1, Dymaxion Development wrote: 
> 
> > We have a backup drive which is a mirror of the system from a year ago. The MODPARAMS.DAT, AUTOPARAM.PAR and IA64VMSSYS.PAR are identical (the MODPARAMS.DAT compared via DIFF and the last two via CHECKSUM). I can successfully boot from that (we'd use it as the primary disk but it's a small drive and there is no client data on it nor would it fit). This drive also a conversational boot and it too hangs. In any case, the fact it does boot there are no hardware issues that could be preventing the system from booting.
> If your second drive is bootable but you can't get the conversational boot to work it sounds like a console problem. What are you using: local VGA, serial or iLO? If VGA, that may well be your problem.

Possible, but the primary drive is a RAID-2. There's nothing in the controller status about the drive being toast. Once I mount the drive when I boot from the backup drive, it is not showing any errors. I can try and locate the DVD and try, but I do not think the primary drive is damaged.