On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:05:53PM +0100, Ian Wells wrote:
> Start it going, then when it's doing its startup tests, fiddle with the
> reset switch on the back.  It should drop into the system monitor (a prompt
> like "Jp#0SCM>", from memory).

yeah, it worked. thanks.

> Then you can tell it to boot single user (try 'b -1', again from memory
> - someone else might know better).

that is not right. it take this argument as file..

  (C) DATA GENERAL CORPORATION 1989,1990

  Single Processor
  Color Graphics [none]
  Firmware Revision 01.18.000
  Keyboard Language is not initialized.
  Local Ethernet Address is 08:00:1B:18:64:EC
  Initializing [32 Megabytes]
  PSR       XPC       NPC       FPC       DCSH  DMMU  ICSH  IMMU
  A00003F2  FFC024BE  FFC024C2  FFC024C6   N     N     N     N     
  SCM>b -1
        
  Booting sd(insc(),0)-1
  DG/UX System Release 5.4R3.00 Bootstrap
  *** ERROR:  file not found -1

from help:

  B [dev([cntrl],[unit],[file#])] - Boot device

so i tried:

  SCM>b sd(insc(),0) -s

and it worked! :)

  Booting sd(insc(),0) -s
  DG/UX System Release 5.4R3.00 Bootstrap
  Loading image ................................................................
  DG/UX System Release 5.4R3.00, Version generic
  Using 32 Megabytes of physical memory
  Found 1 processor
  Configuring devices ................
  Unable to configure device sd(insc(),1) -- skipping this device
  Continuing to configure devices .........................
  Registering disks ...
  Using vdm(swap,3416C444,0C027B39,0) as swap disk.
  
  ** vdm(root,3416C446,0C027B39,0):
  ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and File Sizes
  ** Phase 2 - Check Directory Contents
  ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
  ** Phase 4 - Check Link Counts and Resource Accounting
  ** Phase 5 - Check Disk Allocation Region Information
  File System is now mountable.
  
  48000 of 120000 blocks used (72000 free); 1061 of 17278 inodes used (16217
      free).
  
  Mounting vdm(root,3416C446,0C027B39,0) as root file system.
  Creating /dev .......
  
  INIT: SINGLE USER MODE
  :/>#

> Wire RGB on the machine to RGB on the monitor, and switch the monitor to
> sync on green, if there's a switch.  Otherwise, just suck it and see.

uhm, i do not have suitable cables. could i use normal coaxial cable for thin
ethernet?

-- 
--   salo <salo@Xtrmntr.org>         ASCII Ribbon campaign against   /"\   --
--   http://Xtrmntr.org/salo.pgp     e-mail in gratuitous HTML and   \ /   --
--                                   Microsoft proprietary formats    X    --
--                                                                   / \   --