On 08/10/2013 11:33, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote: Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> writes: Just wondered if anyone would know why my Alpha when booting hangs at the point where it attempting to determine whether to join or form a VMS cluster? It is clustered with a VAX - if I boot the VAX first the VAX creates a cluster which the Alpha will then happily join when turned on, but if I power the Alpha without the VAX it just hangs. Both are running an install straight from an original VMS 6.1 installation disk. Just 2 nodes? What's your quorum configuration? Post: $ MCR SYSGEN SHOW VOTES $ MCR SYSGEN SHOW EXPECTED_VOTES ..from each node. I think you, sir, may have found the issue: On RIPLEY (the Alpha): $ mcr sysgen show votes Parameter Name Current Default Min. Max. Unit Dynamic -------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ---- ------- VOTES 1 1 0 127 Votes $ mcr sysgen show expected votes Parameter Name Current Default Min. Max. Unit Dynamic -------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ---- ------- EXPECTED_VOTES 2 1 1 127 Votes On DALLAS (the VAX): $ mcr sysgen show votes Parameter Name Current Default Min. Max. Unit Dynamic -------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ---- ------- VOTES 1 1 0 127 Votes $ mcr sysgen show expected votes Parameter Name Current Default Min. Max. Unit Dynamic -------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ---- ------- EXPECTED_VOTES 1 1 1 127 Votes -- http://www.wickensonline.co.uk http://hecnet.eu http://declegacy.org.uk http://retrochallenge.net https://twitter.com/#!/%40urbancamo