Just remembered...
Did you by chance enable broadcasts to your system console on the Alpha
so that you could monitor the actual requests that the Alpha will/should
(hopefully) see? This might give a clue to what is missing/wrong...
-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
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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.
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