How do VMS Condists work?

From: Bob Lafleur <bob_lafleur_at_technologist.com>
Date: Fri May 31 08:28:27 2002

SIMH hangs for me at the same place with 7.2 and 7.3.

Funny thing is, I never even get the "mount verification" message when
booting to SYS1 on the CD from a REAL microvax.

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On Behalf Of brian wheeler
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 9:25 AM
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Subject: RE: How do VMS Condists work?


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 - 08:28:27 BST