On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, John Rollins wrote:
> having trouble getting the old DN3500 to boot, with the original hard drive
> and the system in service mode I can get it to go a little ways, but when I
> try to launch the config and testing programs, it crashes.
Are you sure it crashes? these utilities take a while to load and run,
even on a DN5500.
When you boot in service mode, you get the "phase one shell" which is
really just a simple ROM monitor. The machine will load and run its
self-tests, and then return the phase one shell prompt. Typing "H" will
get you a list of the commands you can use at this point.
Here's what I would do:
EX DEX
(this runs the calendar utility)
RE
(do this twice; you'll have to hit enter a couple times after each
before it'll let you type anything else)
EX SALVOL
(this runs the disk check utility)
RE
(again, do it twice)
EX CONFIG
(hardware configuration utility; tell it about your machine)
RE
(twice)
EX DOMAIN_OS
(this will start the Apollo Phase_II shell, assuming DOMAIN/OS SR10.x
is installed)
if the phase 2 shell loads ok, type "go" to finish booting the OS. If the
OS won't boot from the phase 2 shell, reset the machine, EX SALVOL, REset
twice, and then EX DOMAIN_OS again. You can do a number of things from the
phase 2 shell; "help" will get you a list of commands.
That should at least get you started.
> Nothing on the screen, but the C & D lights are flashing.
A (green) power
B (amber) heartbeat, or "OS Running"
C (amber) disk activity
D (amber) network traffic (incoming)
E (amber) network traffic (outgoing)
If the machine isn't hooked up to a network, the network traffic
indicators seem to behave non-deterministically.
> the web that will tell me what that means. And when I plug in the 780MB
> drive, it works fine but the OS isn't installed so all I get is a no
> sysboot error. Although I'm told that one of the two 780MB drives has the
> Domain/OS install stuff on it, I'm just not sure how to get to it.
The 780 MB disk is not supported on all controllers. I know the SMS OMTI
8610 model will not, the other SMS model (8621) MIGHT, and the WD7000 will
for sure.
Disks formatted for use in the DN5500 are not useable on other machines
without reformatting, either (the same thing holds in reverse), so if your
780 MB disks were used on a DN5500, neither will be accessible on anything
other than another DN5500.
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