VMS 5.1 startup problem

[John Willis]

It works now. I did SET NOAUTOCONFIG 1 in SYSGEN and did a WRITE CURRENT,
followed by a SHUTDOWN and reboot.

Thanks!

on 3/9/05 4:40 PM, Adrian Graham at witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
>> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of John Willis
>> Sent: 09 March 2005 23:22
>> To: Classic Computers
>> Subject: VMS 5.1 startup problem
>> 
>> the system begins its startup procedure, yet it freezes at this:
>> 
>> $if startup$autoconfigure_all .and. .not.
>> f$getsyi("NOAUTOCONFIG") then - sysgen autoconfigure all
> 
> Did you also do SET STARTUP_P1 "MIN"? VMS shouldn't try to autoconfigure all
> devices on a minimum boot....
> 
> cheers
> 
> a/w
> 
>