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Posted: **Thu Aug 31, 2023 12:20 am**

Hi,

I recently forgot my SYSTEM password, so i needed to alter it using OPA0: method. Everything went well, but since then, the system always boots to SYSBOOT prompt, and i need to input CONTINUE ...does anyone know how to get it out from SYSBOOT mode?

This is running on KVM, top of Debian. EFI bootloader is used, but i deleted all boot flags, STARTUP is the default, UAFALTERNATE is 0. On the graphical boot console i can see the SYSBOOT mode is ticked now. Otherwise it is working normally, so the stop at boot is annoying

Thanks for any help

Posted: **Thu Aug 31, 2023 1:51 am**

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> Openvms 9.2 [...] 

   Not V9.2-1?

> [...] using OPA0: method. [...]

   That's a bit vague.

> [...] Everything went well, [...]

   Where "Everything" was _what_, exactly?  Presumably, if you went back
and undid all the changes which you made, you'd be happy again.  But not
all of us saw what you did then.

> [...]  i deleted all boot flags, [...]

   I don't know what that means.  How, exactly, are you observing the
boot flags?  As usual, showing actual actions (commands) with their
actual results (behavior, error messages, ...) can be more helpful than
vague descriptions or interpretations.

 https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-openvms-x86-64-boot-manager-user-guide-92
 https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-openvms-x86-64-boot-manager-user-guide-921

   I see a FLAGS command in the Boot Manager, and setting bit 0 there
could do it.  (Note that the SYSPROMPT and SYSBOOT flags are different
things.)

   What does your Boot Manager say about "BOOT COMMAND"?  What are you
using as a boot command?

Posted: **Thu Aug 31, 2023 5:55 am**

Look at SYSMAN PARAMS - specifically STARTUP_P1, and up to STARTUP_P8

Chris

Posted: **Thu Aug 31, 2023 11:45 am**

@cct : Thanks! Even if in the meantime it turned out that the SYSBOOT is a flag and needed to be cleared

@sms :
"Not V9.2-1?" - yes, it's 9.2-1, i didn't remember exactly early in the morning

"using OPA0: method."
As i know, this is common between VMS admins. Doing conversational boot, and using SET/STARTUP OPA0: , reset password from OPA0: terminal.

"Everything went well," - i coud change the SYSTEM password successfully.

"i deleted all boot flags" - i meant that UEFI, the set vms_flags 0,1 command. So from your comment, turned out that there is a FLAGS command in the boot manager, and finally could search for the FLAGS clearing, so the answer : NOCONVERSATION in the BOOTMGR prompt. Until then, i've only known that boot flags can be set as UEFI variables.

Thanks for your help

(Sry, i'm new to OpenVMS, began learning it recently, mainly using *nix stuff.)

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