Re: pws600au vms startup console output

From: David J Dachtera (djesys.nospam_at_comcast.net)
Date: 10/16/05 

Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:24:01 -0500

Wayne Sewell wrote:
>
> The recent thread about getting back to SRM from alphabios on the
> PWS433 reminded me of a console problem I have had forever on the 600au.
>
> I have only serial lines connected to my two PWS 600au machines, which
> feed into a decserver. There is no graphics monitor.
>
> I use set host/dte to get to the consoles, and the SRM consoles are set
> to "serial".
>
> I am able to boot the machines, but for some reason I don't see the
> boot messages from VMS. The last line I see is "jumping to bootstrap
> code". Yet the machine actually does boot. If I wait a few minutes, I
> can hit return and get the normal login prompt. I can then log in and
> from that point on it behaves like a normal console.
>
> Basically, this is all I get during boot:
>
> (boot dka0.0.0.1009.0 -flags 0)
> block 0 of dka0.0.0.1009.0 is a valid boot block
> reading 1134 blocks from dka0.0.0.1009.0
> bootstrap code read in
> base = 1d8000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 8dc00
> initializing HWRPB at 2000
> initializing page table at 1ca000
> initializing machine state
> setting affinity to the primary CPU
> jumping to bootstrap code
>
> Nothing at all from VMS startup. Not even the version number message.
>
> None of my other machines behave this way. Just the PWS 600au nodes.
> All consoles are routed through the decservers in exactly the same way,
> and all the other nodes display the full console output, including the
> itanium.
>
> Again, the console *is* set to serial. What else can I do to make the
> full boot dialogue show up?

When you log in, what terminal does SHOW PROCESS indicate you are logged
into? Perhaps there's a clue there... 

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