SUMMARY: system cannot boot

[Alex Harkema <HarkemaA@xxxxxxxxx>]

Title: system cannot boot

The speed of this list keeps amazing me.

The solution came *really* fast.

 

After booting with options to bypass /etc/sysconfigtab (boot -fl cs) I could correct my typo. The system rebooted successfully.

 

Thanks Bryan Lavelle.

 

Regards,

Alex Harkema

-----Original Message-----
From: Lavelle, Bryan [mailto:Bryan.Lavelle@compaq.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 3:01 PM
To: 'Alex Harkema'
Subject: RE: system cannot boot

Try booting without using the sysconfigtab, boot -c, or boot -cs to bypass and get to single.  A mistake in sysconfigtab is usually fatal, which is why we recommend that sysconfigtab is NEVER manually edited.  Use stanza files and the sysconfigdb command instead.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Harkema [mailto:HarkemaA@vertis.nl]
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 7:50 AM
To: 'tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov'
Subject: system cannot boot

Hi,

Something alike is in the archives, I cannot find a solution though.
After a change in /etc/sysconfigtab my AS1000 (Tru64 5.1) hangs during boot. Somewhere halfway the sequence it tries to allocate the swappartition; It doesn't pass this one: vm_swap_init: swap set to eager allocation mode. Booting into single-user mode (and/or using /genvmunix) doesn't solve the problem.

I can imagine that I've made a typo in sysconfigtab, but I have never seen a system not being able to boot because of that.

Any hints, suggestions?

TIA

Alex Harkema