Minifridge

[Marco Benton]

once in single user do a "bcheckrc" to mount filesystems.


On 08/22/2010 04:20 PM, heviarti at puresimplicity.net wrote:
>    Well, I'm in. Don't know why -fl s worked now but not before.  It's a UNIX, but I'm not sure which. There's no uname in single user mode. Neither is there passwd, vi, or even a paginator. I'll worry about that on the other list.
>
>    With all respect to Matt Turner, On the other list I'll find one of two things: All the same people that are here, or people who've always had corporate machines, and never pulled one out of a dumpster/junkpile. Almost every RISC machine I've ever owned has been salvage, and fixed with components from stuff local PC shops get at auction.  I know many more people in the Linux community who have done this.  Generally when you have access to corporate stuff you learn much less about patching them up after hosing herring and tomato sauce out of 'em.
>
>    Perhaps after I have gotten this one up and running I'll see about patching up one of my two single processor '164s, both of which are running Linux.  The one has debian on it, which has got to go... The other has a mostly finished slackware as built by Motoko-chan, who has since disappeared.
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From:  John Halewood<john at unidec.co.uk>
> Subj:  RE: Minifridge
> Date:  Sun Aug 22, 2010 13:07
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> To:  "'Linux on Alpha processors'"<axp-list at redhat.com>
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>    
>>    I've already seen that all three disks are alive.  They're all real
>> RZs. The CD is even an actual RRD. The only boot parameters that are
>> set are the flags D,A, and boot_reset is ON.  Amazingly a bootdev is
>> not set.  I could probably boot into the OS, but I'd just have  to hard
>> power the machine.  I'm not sure copying a hash from a Linux box into a
>> DEC UNIX box would entirely work, even if I could lay hands on media.
>>      
> Trial and error then. Show dev will list the disks (and also the MAC address of the ethernet card - can be useful later on). Then go through
>    
>>>> boot rz[whatever] -fl s (seeing as it's got tru64 on it). Eventually one of them will work. That will take you into single user mode with a command prompt and you can pretty much do whatever you want from that point onwards (just don't type bcheckrc, otherwise it'll boot up into multiuser mode and ask for a password). Once there you should be able to give the system a good looking over and then decide what to do with it.
>>>>          
> Cheers
> John
>
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