On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 07:54:50PM +0100, Aaron Jackson via cctalk wrote: > Hi all, > > I picked up a DECstation 5000/200 over a year ago, which I haven't > really played with until this weekend. I burnt an Ultrix 4.5 iso, as I > have a RRD43 cdrom drive. The installation appeared to go fine, and I > was very pleased to see that Emacs is available in the unsupported > packages. > > When I try to boot, it prints out to the console > > ]] <snip> > ]] preserving editor files > ]] clearing /tmp > ]] standard daemons: update cron accounting network snmpd printer. > ]] start errlog daemon - elcsd > ]] Thu Aug 14 18:30:23 GMT 1997 > > and then it seems to just stop. I can hear some repetitive disk > activity, but nothing is happening on the console. I have a monitor > hooked up to the PMAG-F card, but it just displays a black screen. > > If I boot into single user mode "boot 5/rz1/vmunix single", things seem > to work fine, although I can't start X.
I am clueless etc, have no idea about how Ultrix does its things under the hood, but have you tried setting the proper date when in single mode, then reboot into normal mode? I guess some parts of the system may refuse to work if they find out that filesystem is "newer" than the clock. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
