Thanks to Paul LaMadeleine who offered the following, correct solution:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul LaMadeleine" <plamadeleine_at_lightbridge.com>
To: "Elizabeth Harvey-Forsythe" <ehf_at_media.mit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: System hangs on boot ...
> the system could be hanging trying to mount some nfs file systems. if you
> can get into single user mode, look at the /etc/fstab file and check for
> nfs mounts.
>
> Paul
>
> At 03:48 PM 12/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >The system: Compaq XP1000, Tru64 V5.0a, system disk is a mirrored 4.3 GB
> >LVD, and there is also a 63 GB RAID-5 for user storage.
> >
> >The machine displays "jumping to bootstrap code ..." but no longer
brings
> >up the X login screen. Oddly enough, I can ping it, but not telnet, ssh,
> >ftp, or http.
> >
> >Clues, suggestions?
> >
> >Elizabeth Harvey-Forsythe
> >Network Computing Systems
> >MIT Media Laboratory
Received on Thu Dec 28 2000 - 21:32:36 NZDT