stupid vax tricks

From: R. Stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Wed Apr 28 00:50:30 1999

ok, tonight's stupid vax trick is deciphering the wonderous boot messages.

I've gotten the SPX card I was supposed to have, and things are looking
much better now than they had been before.

But (always the 'but'!)

The boot fails in an entirely different manner now.

Tests A, 3, and 2 give a '_' result which as I understand means whatever
it was testing wasn't found to test.

Test 1 gives a '?' and I get this message:

 ? 6 80A1 0000.4001
?? 1 00C0 0011.700E
>>> continue

?24 UNXINT 00010000 041F0000 01C

and then nothing more.

If I run the proper 'show' command (forgot which one I used) the disks
spin up (RZ23 and RZ24), and 'show boot' indicates it wants to boot from
the RZ24.

Help! I really do not know what I'm doing. (:

ok
r.
Received on Wed Apr 28 1999 - 00:50:30 BST