So far not going well. Didn't seem to have any video from the video
board so pulled that which gives me a serial console. Trying to boot from
my emulator gives 4C DEVINACT. If I'm on the correct drive select I get
the error quicker so its seeing the emulator. TK50 is just blinking red
so I can't boot the diag tape. Online seems to say a good cleaning may
fix this.
Next tried to find the diagnostic floppies. Found these (uvax2diag1)
which may be what I want.
http://www.headcrashers.org/comp/rx50/index.html
Get same 4C DEVINACT trying to boot them. Page didn't give PUTR command
used to create images. I tried both with and without /binary.
Does anyone know of known good diagnostic floppy images hopefully with
information on how to write them back to a floppy? I assume the full
diagnostic hasn't shown up so all that is available is the stripped down
customer one.
Also what is the name you give to boot for the hard drive, floppy, and tape?
Manuals seem skimpy on details and this machine doesn't have the show command.
Also I was assuming the bottom drive is the boot drive based on the manuals
I have. Was this normal?
I haven't tried putting the real drive back in and seeing if its bootable.
Since I don't know the password I'll either have to hard shut it down if
it boots or try one of the procedures for resetting the password. Looks
like it is VMS.