RSX-11M/M+ Question

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Sat May 20 16:25:03 2000

>Is there a way to configure either RSX-11M or RSX-11M+ to boot up off of a
>disk that it can't write to? I just created a backup CD-R of my RSX-11M
>system, but since it could't write to the disk as it was coming up it
>didn't come up in a usable state. However, it did boot. Alternatively
>would it be possible to boot standalone backup off this CD or build a CD
>with standalone backup?

The CD you built can *probably* be used to boot into standalone BRU,
if it's the result of a fairly vanilla SYSGEN.

Boot it up, let it mount the system disk, get to the MCR prompt (control-C
and ABO AT. if necessary), and do a BOO [6,54]BRUSYS.

Tim.
Received on Sat May 20 2000 - 16:25:03 BST