Retry more memory
Because it was foreseen that there would be no external activity for the weekend, I stopped the server and added 1 Gb of memory to the 512 that has been I stalled from the beginning, and tried to test the system.
Well, of course I could start the test:
>>>testIt tells runtime is 150 seconds, and that CTRL-C may stop testing once started
And that’s about it. Let it run for about 10 minutes, lost confidence:
HALT button doesn’t workNo output may have to do with environment variable d_verbose being zero.
So stopped the machine by the power-off button, and started it again using the same.
>>> more el
doesn’t say anything but the last startup-sequence so it is of no use at all.
Hence the next step was
>>>set d_verbose 1
>>>test
With the very same result.
Restarted, let the system run for some time, then did
>>>show mem
and that gave me no bad pages, and 1.5 Gb of memory.
No surprises 🙂
But since the keyboard was completely unresponsive, there might have been a bad DIMM? So I exchanged them, and repeated the whole sequence, with exactly the same results.
So since I would be around if thins would go wrong, I started VMS (knowing that the startup-sequence has now be tested several times and just worked 🙂 ) to see where this would bring me.