On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
So I finally got the needed MMJ serial cables and got
my VAXstation 3100 setup
using the Solbourne S3000 as a serial console. The boot monitor comes up
just fine in cu, but the machine remains at the boot monitor and does not
start VMS.
...
%DECnet-W-NOOPEN, could not open
SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]NET$CONFIG.DAT
My VMS is super rusty.
Check out this page for an idea of boot flags to try:
http://hoffmanlabs.org/vmsfaq/vmsfaq_022.html
Have you tried a DIAG boot? Maybe this webpage has some good info:
https://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.vms/tree/browse_frm/month/2000-06?h…