Alpha Microsystems AM-6000 Owner's Manual page 79

Troubleshooting Procedures
If the computer boots, there is probably some scrambled data on your hard disk preventing the
computer from booting from it. Although once you are familiar with the computer you can easily
restore the System Disk yourself, we recommend that as a new user you contact your VAR for
help. Stop.
If the computer does not boot, you may have a more serious problem. Contact your VAR for help.
B. If your computer does not contain a diskette drive, you can create a warm boot tape using a
streaming tape drive:
To warm boot from a streaming tape:
1. Load your warm boot tape into your streaming tape drive.
2. Push your computer's reset button. In about 30 seconds you should see a message giving the
version number of the operating system. Then, the AMOS prompt symbol, a dot, displays.
If you do see the operating system message and a dot, you have successfully warm booted.
Because this is a warm boot you do not see the system initialization command file on the
operator terminal. Go to the next step.
If you do not see the operating system message and a dot, try performing the warm boot once
more. If you still do not see the message, call your VAR for help. Stop.
3. Enter the following command:
DIR SYS:AMOS*
If your terminal displays a list of files including two with .INI and .MON extensions, you know
at least some of your System Disk is intact.
Although once you are familiar with the computer you can easily restore the System Disk
yourself, we recommend that as a new user you contact your VAR for help at this point. Stop.
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