My question was:
I was greeted today by a dead Alpha 3000/600 workstation when I arrived
to work this morning. (The screen was blank, pressing a key didn't
bring up the password dialog, and I couldn't telnet into the system from
other systems). The system is running Digital Unix 4.0.
When I rebooted the system the boot process hung with the following message:
INIT: Command is respawing too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
id: cons "/usr/sbin/getty console console vt100"
The answer is:
There is a switch on the back of the DEC 3000/600 which controls
whether the system boots up with a graphics console or a ASCII
terminal connected to the serial port of the system. Somehow
(...how could it be? :) ) the switch must have been hit into a
position between the two and it was driving poor getty nuts.
I firmly placed the switch in 'graphics console' mode and my
problem went away.
Sometimes, RTFM does work! I found this answer myself in the
hardware manual.
To the folks who replied: Thanks much for the effort! I appreciated it.
ray
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Ray Lauff : ray_at_thunder.ocis.temple.edu : (215) 204-5678 : Temple University
Received on Mon Aug 26 1996 - 17:13:08 NZST