31 Mar
2020
31 Mar
'20
3:44 a.m.
On 3/30/20 6:14 PM, G. wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:51:21 -0400, Supratim Sanyal
wrote:
I hooked up the RRD42, burnt the OVMS-7.3 ISO image on a CD-R, and tried
to boot dka400, didn't work. The internet is flush with discussions
about "special format" CD-ROM, ODS vs ISO, 2048 byte vs 512 byte blocks,
etc.
My MacBook refuses to brun the VMS 5.5-2H4 ISO from VAXHAVEN ("invalid
disk image"). So basically I have to research and find a way to burn a
CD-ROM in the necessary format that will boot the MicroVAX into DCL so
that I can repair the CONTIGUOUS issue on DKA100.
I am sure lots of people here have done this - any tips welcome while I
am trolling the internet.
KA47-A V1.2-343-V4.0
08-00-2B-2D-FF-39
24MB
?? 001?? 9??????? NI? 0172
?? 100? 10????? SCSI? 0034
What is the recommended way to recover from
"FILNOTCNTG" error?
Boot the system in some other way (cluster satellite,
CD-ROM, etc.) and
check that SYSBOOT.EXE is contiguous:
>>
>> sh dev
? VMS/VMB????? ADDR????? DEVTYPE??? NUMBYTES???? RM/FX WP???
DEVNAM????? REV
? -------????? ----????? -------??? --------???? ----- --???
------????? ---
? ESA0???????? 08-00-2B-2D-FF-39
?????????????? A/0/0
?????????????? A/0/1
?????????????? A/0/2
?????????????? A/0/3
?????????????? A/0/4
?????????????? A/0/5
?????????????? A/0/6
?????????????? A/0/7
? DKA100?????? A/1/0???? DISK???????? 1.05GB FX??????????? RZ26L?????? 440C
? DKA200?????? A/2/0???? DISK???????? 2.10GB FX??????????? RZ28??????? 442C
? DKA400?????? A/4/0???? RODISK????? ......?????? RM WP??? RRD42?????? 4.5d
?..HostID..??? A/6?????? INITR
$ DIR/FULL DKA100:[VMS$COMMON.SYSEXE]SYSBOOT.EXE;0
The "File Attributes" line must show "Contiguous" and hopefully
"MoveFile
disabled" too. If not, COPY/CONTIGUOUS it to a newer version of the same in
the same directory and try the boot again.
The other possibility is that the volume is damaged or does not contain a
valid VMS file structure. In this case the FILNOTCNTG error is just an
indication that VMB.EXE (in ROM) got very confused by your disk's contents.
HTH, :)
G.
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Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT
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