How do VMS Condists work?

From: brian wheeler <bdwheele_at_indiana.edu>
Date: Fri May 31 08:24:40 2002

On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 00:10, Antonio Carlini wrote:
> >I just tried, my VAX 7.2 VMS CD also boots into a minimal VMS from SYS1
> >on my MicroVAX. So I guess they changed it between 7.1 and 7.2.
>
> I don't know where they changed but I looked
> at a V7.1 binary disk and it had a [SYS1]
> directory with many files underneath. The
> easy-to-spot difference between S/A BACKUP
> and full OpenVMS boot is the number of files.
>
> I don't have either V6.2 or V6.1 to hand so I
> don't know if this (undocumented and
> unsupported) facility was there back then.
>

6.2 when booting on simh looks like this:


KA655-B V5.3, VMB 2.7
Performing normal system tests.
40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..31..30..29..28..27..26..25..
24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..14..13..12..11..10..09..
08..07..06..05..04..03..
Tests completed.
>>>boot dua1/r5:10000000
(BOOT/R5:10000000 DUA1)



  2..
-DUA1
  1..0..


%SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT Mapping the SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk
%SYSBOOT-W-SYSBOOT Can not map SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk
%SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT Mapping PAGEFILE.SYS on the System Disk
   OpenVMS (TM) VAX Version XI06-67K Major version id = 1 Minor version
id = 0

%SYSTEM-I-MOUNTVER, DUA1: has been write-locked. Mount verification in
progress.



I assume that there's a bug in SIMH causing the mount verification to
take forever....and that if it completed it would be in a minimal
environment.

Brian
Received on Fri May 31 2002 - 08:24:40 BST