HP 710 froze at cold-boot? FILTER TIME_FROM 12:41:49.000000 01/03/100
timfo...@my-deja.com
sitting in a corner of my room for the past 6-7 months. I wanted to
resurrecte the machine and try to put it to some use. :-(
The machine was functional in Feb 2000 (yes, I have other important
things to do ) , except that at that time I notice that the clock is
out. The machine at tat time hwas operating as a stand alone set.
Recently I switched the HP 710 'on' (cold boot) and the workstation
froze during start up. The following are the on screen messages ....
>
> Initializing system ..........[ OK ]
> > Starting networking ..........[busy]
>
> <....etc, etc ...>
>
> Year must be between 00 and 99 inclusive:100.
>
> The following command will be ignored:
>
> FORMATTER
> FILTER TIME_FROM 12:41:49.000000 01/03/100
> NFS server (pid154@net) not responding, still trying
>
This situation last indefinately. Is the machine waiting for a
network?
In Feb, when the machine was first disconnected from the network, the
machine can operate as stand alone after 'time-out'. I suspect the
timer is Knock Out by Y2k. What can I do to get the machine outof the
waiting?
Can anybody give me a clue what is happening? What can I do to shut
down the machine, short of switching off the power in this state?
Thanks in advance.
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Before you buy.
Jeff Spray
There are a couple of things going on. 1) Is the machine running 9.x or
10.x. If it is running 9.x, you will have some serious problems with some
of the software(Y2K). If it is running 10.x you will need some patches. As
to
the problem with booting, it was probably set up to do NFS hard mounts, i.e.
it never times out and continues to load the OS. What you can do, is
interrupt the boot process by pressing escape (you do this before it tries
loading). This will should get you to the boot loader console. Once you
get to the prompt, (there is help available, I am doing this from memory and
have not done it in awhile) do a SEArch (upper case denotes what you will
probably have to type in..) for boot devices. When you find it, (it should
be something like "scsi.6.0", without the quotes), do BOot scsi.6.0. When
it asks you to interact with IPL (ISL?, I forget) answer yes. When you get
there, you should be able to input "hpux -is" (no quotes). This should get
you into single user mode, without a root password. Note: I am pretty sure
that the "-is" is correct, if not, it just might be "-s". You will have to
start from scratch (turn power off) if it is wrong. Now you should be able
to modify /etc/mnttab, etc., or use SAM to disable NFS completely, if the
machine is standalone. No warranty implied, but this should be pretty close
to what you need to get the machine running. If you are still having
problems, email me at work (jsp...@hasbro.com) and I can check the manuals
there. Let me know how you make out.
Regards,
Jeff Spray
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