Booting from CD

[Andrij CAde]

How do you boot "MIN" ?

[Volker Halle]

Andrij,

>>> show boot_osflags

will give r,n

>>> B r,1
SYSBOOT> set startup_p1 "MIN"
SYSBOOT> C

login and purge the system disk

To reset the system for a full boot:

$ MC SYSGEN
SYSGEN> USE CURRENT
SYSGEN> SET STARTUP_P1 ""
SYSGEN> WRITE CURRENT
SYSGEN> exit

Reboot

Volker.

[Hoff]

You don't need to use the CD to free up disk storage space on the system disk. (That approach does work, however.) You should be able to do this disk clean-up with a standard conversational bootstrap.

Shutdown and/or halt the system. Use ^P or BREAK, depending on the box.

Boot conversationally and minimally, setting STARTUP_P1 to "MIN" and SET/STARTUP=OPA0: and then set WRITESYSPARAMS to 0 at the SYSBOOT prompt.

PURGE or DELETE as appropriate.

Reboot.

Off you go.

Details:
http://64.223.189.234/node/204

[Andrij CAde]

Volker,

I tried the boot_osflags.

It returned just 0??

[Jan van den Ende]

Andrij,

>>>
I tried the boot_osflags.

It returned just 0??
<<<

So it is not set. Defaults to 0,0

To boot conversational, boot

>>>b -fl 0,1

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Andrij CAde]

So the saga continues,

I did the b -flags 0,1

and then it started to boot and still said that there was not enough memory to continue

[Volker Halle]

Andrij,

please provide the full error messages and the commands you've entered. This will make troubleshooting much simpler...

Volker.

[Hoff]

>>>
I did the b -flags 0,1

and then it started to boot and still said that there was not enough memory to continue
<<<

What commands did you enter at SYSBOOT (the ones I cited or the ones Volker mentioned?), and what is the text of the error that you received from the bootstrap?

"not enough memory to continue" is not an error text typical of the bootstrap itself, and there are a number of errors with slightly different wording that could be the trigger here. Having the exact text seems a little fussy, but it really helps figure out the particular memory constraint here. (The original question reference blocks, which implies disk storage and not a physical nor virtual memory error.)

[Andrij CAde]

The exact messages are:

Message from user SYSTEM on DEP100
ERRFMT - Error Accessing Log File
%RMS-F-Ful, Device Full(Insufficient Space for Allocations

Message from User System on DEP100
ERRFMT - Deleteing ERRFMT Process
Error Log File Unwritable
To Restart ERRFMT Process, Use "@SYS$SYSTEM:Startup ERRFMT"

[Heinz W Genhart]

Hi Andrij

your system disk ist full!
Do a
$SHO DEV SYS$SYSDEVICE

and you will see the system disk has 0 or near 0 blocks of free space.

In previous articels, you can find many suggestions, what you can do now.

- Purge sys$sysdevice:[000000...]
- Delete sys$sysdevice:[000000...]*.log.*
- Reply/enable
Reply/log
Purge sys$startup:

etc. etc.

Regrads

Geni