Back to booting that MicroVAX...

From: Peter Kukla <fruviad_at_coil.com>
Date: Wed May 2 21:27:57 2001

Hi all,

Refresher for those who have forgotten:

MicroVAX 3100/20e...I couldn't get it to boot, except into Standalone BACKUP
mode. When the box boots, it reports that it's finding the tape drive,
DKA300, and DKB200.

I tried Eric's suggestion, but no luck. My guess is that I need to get
the OS on TK50 tapes and find out whether the 2nd disk is even alive, but
I have no idea where to get VMS on tape. I've been playing with intel
hardware for years, but this is the first time I've ever experimented with
VMS.

Anyone have any suggestions as to where I could find tapes for this beast?
I've been lurking for the past week or three, and obviously the folks on
this list know a LOT more than I do about reviving ancient hardware!

Thanks in advance...



Peter Kukla



Eric Dittman electronically enscribed:
>
> > After digesting the above output, I tried booting to DKB200. That caused
> > another disk inside to spin up (definitely louder than the first, but not
> > necesarily to the point of screaming "I'm dead!"), but there's obviously
> > a problem:
> >
> > >>> BOOT DKB200
> >
> >
> > ?42 NOSUCHFILE
> > ?06 HLT INST
> > PC = 00000C66
>
> This means there's no boot files on DKB200.
>
> You might try to see if VMS was installed
> using a root directory other than SYS0.
> Try B/x0000000, where x is from 0 to F.
> --
> Eric Dittman
> dittman_at_dittman.net
>


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