I got a few very helpful suggestions. Thanks to everyone who responded:
It turns out that the reason the system wouldn't boot was because many of
the files in /dev were somehow changed from device files to regular files.
The file in specific that was causing the system to freeze was /dev/console.
Its permissions were set as '-rw-r--r--' when it should have been
'crw--w--w-' . I had to rename it and run `MAKEDEV console` to repair it.
HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?
/dev/console was not the only file with this problem. Most, if not all the
Standard Device Files were damaged this way. I had to remove them all and
run `MAKEDEV std`.
More help would be appreciated. Thanks everyone.
Tom Bacevicius
-----Original Message-----
From: Bacevicius, Tom
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 4:33 PM
To: Tru64-Unix-Managers (E-mail)
Subject: Please help figure out why my 2100 (4.0D
PK2) didn't boot
Hello folks,
I am hoping you all can help me figure out why my system
didn't boot.
I was eventually able to get it booting, but only after
restoring from backup. The problem is that to the best of my knowledge,
nothing on the O/S had changed from the time of the backup.
I need to figure out the root cause for this problem, but am
at a loss. Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Here is the output of my boot sequence. I will point out
where it stopped.
# uerf -R -r 300
EVENT CLASS OPERATIONAL EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 300. SYSTEM STARTUP
SEQUENCE NUMBER 1.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Sun Aug 29 19:17:01
1999
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM testbox1
SYSTEM ID x00060009 CPU TYPE: DEC 2100
SYSTYPE x00000000
MESSAGE Alpha boot:
available memory from
_0x119a000 to
0x1ffee000
Digital UNIX V4.0D
(Rev. 878); Sun
_Aug 29 14:49:29
CST 1999
physical memory =
512.00 megabytes.
available memory =
494.32 megabytes.
using 1958 buffers
containing 15.29
_megabytes of
memory
Master cpu at slot
0.
Firmware revision:
5.2
PALcode: Digital
UNIX version 1.45
ibus0 at nexus
AlphaServer 2100
4/275
cpu 0 EV-45 4mb
b-cache
cpu 1 EV-45 4mb
b-cache
cpu 2 EV-45 4mb
b-cache
gpc0 at ibus0
pci0 at ibus0 slot 0
tu0: DECchip 21040:
Revision: 2.3
tu0 at pci0 slot 0
tu0: DEC TULIP
(10Mbps) Ethernet
_Interface,
hardware address:
........................ etc .......
My boot stops immediately after the lines:
...
cpu 0 EV-45 4mb b-cache
cpu 1 EV-45 4mb b-cache
cpu 2 EV-45 4mb b-cache
The system just sits there waiting at this point. A Compaq
technician confirmed that this is not a hardware problem.
If there is any further information that I can provide,
please let me know.
I appreciate any help offered.
Tom Bacevicius
Received on Tue Sep 14 1999 - 15:27:46 NZST