[commodorejohn]

So I'm trying to get a Tru64 (5.0) install going on a DEC 3000/300x workstation I got ahold of. I've gotten as far as booting and running the installer, and things appear to be totally fine...but when it finishes and tries to boot into the resulting install, it ends up in single-user mode after a pile of error messages:

   

Any idea what's going on here? The Tru64 install guide mirrored here has a section on boots-to-single-user, but that appears to be more about proper boot configuration, which I'm pretty sure is already in place. Did I miss a step?

[commodorejohn]

Update: found the answer after some Googling and experimentation. This thread lays out the procedure that is apparently required, but the installer didn't do properly and I didn't see any reference to in the install guide :/ For posterity, this is the voodoo that you do to rebuild all the device links that it was expecting to be set up correctly and weren't:

Code:

>>> boot -fl s

mountroot

rm /etc/dec*
rm /etc/dfsc*
rm /etc/dc*
cd /cluster/members/member/dev/; ./MAKEDEV std
rm /cluster/members/member/etc/dfsl*
rm /cluster/members/member/.Booted
cd /devices; rm -rf disk rdisk tape ntape cport dmapi changer

init 0

>>> boot -fl s

mountroot
dn_setup -init
dsfmgr -K
dsfmgr -v # optionally -vF
hwmgr show scsi

bcheckrc

Tru64 is now up and busy slogging through the incredibly tedious package manager

[commodorejohn]

Well, I spoke too soon :/ As it turns out, as soon as I'd finished installing packages off of CD and swapped the CD-ROM drive out for a second hard drive, the dumb thing lost its head again and even the voodoo wouldn't convince it to boot. So I said screw it, dropped the hobbyist program a final request, and I'm now posting from a Compaq-branded Mozilla 1.7 on OpenVMS 8.4 Now I just need to remember how the hell VMS's alien filesystem structure works and how to coherently span the system across multiple physical disks...