SUMMARY: DEC 2000, Model 300 AXP Hangs

From: Bennet Fauber <bfauber_at_ucdavis.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:39:56 -0700

Thanks to

Neil Dyce <Neil.Dyce_at_bristol.ac.uk>
berc_at_pa.dec.com
Andrew Brennan <brennan_at_auhs.edu>
"Irene A. Shilikhina" <irene_at_alpha.iae.nsk.su>
"Luchini, Marco" <Marco.Luchini_at_acco-uk.co.uk>

who answered.

I had already pulled the plug on the disk, which forced the failover I
needed to set AUTO_ACTION to HALT -- something I will remember to do now
before I start reinstalling an OS -- but getting to the point at which I
could do so was the problem.

Ctrl-C was not working to prevent the jump to loading the OS.

Ctrl-P was the only other key sequence option suggested. I haven't been
able to verify that it works, though.

Thanks, -- Bennet

>Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:48:49 -0700
>To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
>From: Bennet Fauber <bfauber_at_ucdavis.edu>
>Subject: DEC 2000, Model 300 AXP Hangs
>
>Hello,
>
>I have a DEC 2000, Model 300 AXP, ROM 2.2, Firmware version 370, that was
hanging on powerup. It did the device check, then printed the following
>
> System power up OK
>INIT-S-CPU
>AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS
>AUDIT_CHECKSUM_GOOD
>AUDIT_LOAD_BEGINS
>AUDIT_LOAD_DONE
>
>an hung there.
>
>I unplugged the hard disk to force a failure back to the >>> prompt, but
is there a key sequence to force the machine to the >>> prompt during or
after its power up cycle?
>
>I don't have any hardware documentation for this beast, and I didn't see
anything in the System Administrator manual that came with our AlphaServer
4000.
>
>Thanks, -- Bennet
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Bennet Fauber
Social Science Data Service
University of California, Davis
Received on Tue Oct 26 1999 - 15:41:35 NZDT

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