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тАО10-12-2004 07:50 PM
тАО10-12-2004 07:50 PM
Last evening I went to one of our customers to do an annual full image backup of the system disk. The console there is a PC graphics terminal and NOT a VT.
I booted from the CD and the system refused to come up. It seemed to "hang" just after both CPUs were joined.
I tried a different CD - same reult.
At this point I had a suspicion that perhaps the graphics console was the problem. So we connected a VT320 to the serial connector. However, this did not immediately help, until I realized that I had to issue the follwing command at the boot prompt:
>>>set console serial
AND to do a "hard" restart of the ALPHA.
After the ALPHA came up again to boot prompt the system came up successfully from the CD.
Take note that if the PC console is to be reestablished then a
>>>set console graphics
MUST be issued, and the ALPHA hard restarted.
Hope this may be of help to someone!
Chaim
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тАО10-12-2004 07:56 PM
тАО10-12-2004 07:56 PM
Re: Booting from CD with a graphics console
I've done s/a backups of various alphas with graphics consoles with not a problem.
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тАО10-12-2004 07:58 PM
тАО10-12-2004 07:58 PM
Re: Booting from CD with a graphics console
Which version of OpenVMS ?
You may need to install a GRAPHICS patch;
hth,
HF
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тАО10-12-2004 07:59 PM
тАО10-12-2004 07:59 PM
Re: Booting from CD with a graphics console
Is there a command to issue to get this information?
The OpenVMS version is V7.3
Chaim
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тАО10-12-2004 08:01 PM
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Re: Booting from CD with a graphics console
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тАО10-12-2004 08:13 PM
тАО10-12-2004 08:13 PM
Re: Booting from CD with a graphics console
Chaim
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тАО10-12-2004 08:22 PM
тАО10-12-2004 08:22 PM
Re: Booting from CD with a graphics console
I have seen similar problems on AS1200 and DS20 when a non-standard keyboard was attached. It appeared to hang until a CR was entered on the keyboard - then hey presto the system carried on booting.
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тАО10-12-2004 08:31 PM
тАО10-12-2004 08:31 PM
Re: Booting from CD with a graphics console
Could be a firmware poblem. Can you post
a SDA> clue config ?
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тАО10-12-2004 08:37 PM
тАО10-12-2004 08:37 PM
Re: Booting from CD with a graphics console
What exactly do you want from the CONFIG?
Console Vers V6.0-4
Chaim
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тАО10-12-2004 08:51 PM
тАО10-12-2004 08:51 PM
Re: Booting from CD with a graphics console
SO it should be ok