Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!sun
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
From: sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest)
Subject: DN3500 refuse to get into DM
Message-ID: <1990Jan12.172440.851@me.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: sun@me.utoronto.ca
Date: 12 Jan 90 22:24:40 GMT

There is a strange thing happen to an Apollo DN3500 that I've never
seen and doesn't seem to find a cure for it. We've phoned up Apollo
tech. support and they don't have a clue either. I was wondering some
Apollo experts on the net might shed some light on it. The problem is
this:

The Apollo that has problem is connected to an Apollo ring, consisting
of two other Apollo DN3000s. It is running SR10.1. The other two machines
are running SR9.7 (yucky, isn't it?). I don't know if anyone has done
something to it or it decided to go on strike itself, it just won't
load DM. I tried soft boot it (shutdown and reboot) and hardware reset
(press the little white button at the back of it). Everything went
well (disk check passed, salvage boot volume okay, loading Init okay)
but that's it. It threw me back to a "Phase II Shell" with a ")" prompt
instead of loading the display manager and ask for login. I manually
type in dm to try loading DM from that shell, but all I got was something
like (pm_$init) 3040001. I can still access its disk from the other SR9.7
machines (so the network is probably okay), but I cannot get it to do
anything else. Anyone have seen this kind of thing happened before? Any
help/suggestions are welcome.

Andy

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