On 21/10/2012 22:53, "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.
Wish I'd known you were after MMJ stuff, could've made you some! Postage
from the UK wouldn't have been prohibitive :)
TEST 50 says ?41 DEVASSIGN, TEST
A SHOW DEV shows an ESA0, which I assume is the 10b2 Ethernet because it
shows a MAC address, and a DKA0, which is a 1.05GB drive.
RZ26, yarr.
So, I do BOOT DKA0 and it appears to start
(transcribed from my Android,
sorry for typos):
%SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT Mapping the SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk
%SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT SYSDUMP.DMP on System Disk successfully mapped
%SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT Mapping PAGEFILE.SYS on the System Disk
%SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT SAVEDUMP parameter not set to protect the PAGEFILE.SYS
OpenVMS (TM) VAX Version V7.2 Major version id = 1 Minor versio [cut]
%DECnet-I-LOADED, network base image loaded, version = 05.0D.00
%DECnet-W-NOOPEN, could not open SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]NET$CONFIG.DAT
Bizarre, even missing DECnet/OSI configs (which is what that error points
to) shouldn't cause a crash.
Time for a conversational boot. At the dead sergeant prompt (>>>) do B/1
You'll get a SYSBOOT> prompt. Type 'set startup_p1 "min"' then C
to
continue. This will at least get you running. Once logged in do 'product
show product' and give us the output. DECnet is obviously not happy.
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