Fred, I'm not sure what's going on here but... I may still be able to help you. You could try booting into my VAXcluster (as a satellite) and do the installation from that if you wish. If you are interested, let me know offline. If this fails then you could try booting off my "real" InfoServer just for grins :-) Oh, the NEC Multispin 4x may just work. I use these. You will have to set one of the dip switches that changes it from 2048 bytes to 512 bytes. A search on the web should be able to give you the correct switch. -Steve -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Fred Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 21:04 To: hecnet at update.uu.se Subject: [HECnet] Boot VAX from Alpha host Infoserver? Good evening everyone: This weekend I have been trying to make my VAXStation 4000-90A come to life. It won't boot off the CD (an NEC Multispin 4X, perhaps it doesn't speak 512/2048?) so I took the next route of trying to make it boot of my Alpha's (MISER) host base Infoserver. I copied the ISL_SVAX_073.SYS file off of my 7.3 distribution from Montagar (it was in [sys0.sysexe]) to mom$load and did all the NCP statements to make MISER aware of the new soon-to-be-node, FRUGAL. The VAX boots to this file fine.( "b /r5:100 eza0" ) If I make it search for Infoserver services, it finds the 7.3 distribution service that I set up using LDDRIVER on the Alpha. However, when I try to select it (and hopefully make it "boot" from it) it just sits there for a long time, eventually saying: %ISL-F-BADOPEN, unable to locate SYSBOOT Running wireshark doesn't reveal much - I see the "DEC LAST" protocol running on the wire, but that's about it. At this point it *has* to be something simple. Would anyone have anything obvious I should be checking? I have a feeling I'm *this* close ... :) Cheers, Fred ---- Lets call it for what it is - "legacy" is a term that people use in a polite but derogatory manner to imply that the future direction they prefer is not that which they view as the current direction.